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Title: Remember Me
Composer: Alice Walker
Type of text: Fictional Poem
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Publication date: December 15, 2000
Context:
Alice deals with many issues, most of which concern historical and modern race problems in America. Through this she brings to national attention the cruelty and inhumane abuse that Americans and Africans endured.
Audience:
Young adults, teenagers, political groups and adults. Walker tries to tell her audience of how much people like her suffer for being ‘Black” and how much they endure. She feels that people should know and learn from it.
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Purpose:
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To give people an idea of justice and injustice. It is also to aware the people of how some people are being treated unequally and to make them realize how it feels to be treated in the world with injustice.
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Brief synopsis of text:
The poem ‘Remember Me’ by Alice Walker converses the persona’s miserable life and how depressed she is to not belong in the society due to her features and colour differences. The poem is all about a ‘Black women” whose been suffering a lot of pain, for being black, and she hopes + for justice. Soon she is blessed and justice is given to her because she only hoped for justice and a better life. This poem deals with a transformation of some sort from bondage to freedom.
Concept 1: The struggle of belonging due to colour
The Poem 'Remember Me' is a presentation of an ongoing theme in Alice Walker's literature; this theme is one that ignites Walker's passions because it is on that she lives day to day. Her life particularly because, she lives in an era of enormous progress for women that is a well woven filigree of injustice and not belonging and the reaction to the concept of not