Everyday Use By Alice Walker

Alice Walker was born on February 4, 1944, and she is the youngest of eight siblings. Walker grew up poorly attending segregated schools. Since the age of eight, she has been partially blind, and to cope with that she wrote. She started out writing poetry, and later evolved to short stories and novels. Walker writes based off her life experience, African American women, her mother’s teachings, and family traditions. Her writings, Everyday Use and The Color Purple are two of her most popular writings. Both writings highly reflect all of those characteristics in both good and bad ways. Many people have reviewed her work, and she has mostly positive feedback.
Everyday Use was written in 1973. It is a story about a family of three African American
In letting a rural black woman with little education tell a story that affirms the value of her heritage… (Critics,2011,para.1).
There are no complaints on Walker’s Everyday Use. The Color Purple has many views on it. “Walker has earned high praise for The Color Purple, particularly for her accurate rendering of folk idiom, her use of the oral storytelling tradition, and her characterization of Celie” (Critics,2011,para.2). Many feminist have praised Walker for showing struggles that women undergo (Critics,2011). Walker was criticized for displaying African American in an abusive way, and how she characterized people in The Color Purple (Critics,2011). Walker’s writings are overall viewed as great writings. Alice Walker is a very inspiring author with excellent writings. She can do it all from poetry, short stories, and novels. Two of her best writings are Everyday Use and The Color Purple. Both of these writings show characteristics from her life, heritage, and things she has learned. Walker mostly has praises of work, she has very little complaints. Walker is an all around great