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    The story The Flowers‚ by Alice Walker‚ is the story that has the best use of description. You can tell the author loves to write descriptively because she uses it throughout the whole piece. In the beginning‚ there is much description about the day the story takes place. For example‚ “The air held a keenness that made her nose twitch.” and‚ “... made each day a golden surprise...”. “A keenness that made her nose twitch” is an extremely pure description because it is deeply felt and understood by

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    Alice Walker Identity

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    It is the heirloom of the “handmade family quilts” (Walker p.1) being brought into the new generation that creates a temporal pragmatism or reality for a refining culture; a physicality of an object that loses its meaning. In both works the characters face a dilemma in which they are presented with a “threshold”

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    Flowers By Alice Walker

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    have been viewed as outsiders who are different from everyone else. Unfortunately‚ this is known as discrimination. Black Americans had to go through this tough time for 14 years straight dealing with the pain and suffering of feeling excluded. Alice Walker has experienced this civil rights movement when she was around 20 years old‚ so this short story was able to help her explain how life was like during those times. The mood at the beginning of the story describes a light‚ innocent little girl

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    Alice Walker Monologue

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    attention to the dancing of the leaves that seduced her into nothingness. In front of the class‚ Alice Walker was thinking about her lipstick and Tina’s new pink purse. The one she always wanted but couldn’t have. The bell rung. Walker arranged her new blue shirt and sighed. “What is it Alice?” reddish boy asked with a somewhat annoyed air. “Everything!” she replied. Jimmy however‚ left the desk as soon as Alice began her story and went to two girls sitting alone by the window. There she listened to stories

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    Alice Walker Heritage

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    views in "Everyday Use"‚ Alice Walker illustrates the importance of understanding our present life in relation to the traditions of our own people and culture. Using careful descriptions and attitudes‚ Walker demonstrates which factors contribute to the values of one’s heritage and culture; she illustrates that these are represented not by the possession of objects or mere appearances‚ but by one’s lifestyle and attitude. In "Everyday Use" Walker personifies the different sides of

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    Alice Walker Biography

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    The Author and Her Time: (revised) Alice Walker is an African American novelist‚ poet‚ lecturer‚ essayist‚ and activist‚ most famous for her novel‚ The Color Purple. Walker was born in Eatonton‚ Georgia‚ February 9‚ 1944‚ to sharecroppers. She was one of eight children‚ but definitely stood out . Financially‚ her family suffered hardships trying to keep every mouth fed‚ and a roof over their head. As a child‚ Walker suffered an accident‚ leaving a visible scar in her eye. The incident shaped

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    Alice Walker Creativity

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    Alice Walker also uses her own mother as a method to explain the way they are and the creativity they have lived in . She explains‚ "Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and respect for strength-in search of my mother’s garden‚ I found my own."(Walker 675) This quote shows how Walker was able to find her own creativity by seeing her mother’s creativity in the creation of her gardens. Walker’s mother grew beautiful gardens at every single house they had ever lived in‚it was so original in its

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    Alice Walker Biography

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    Alice Walker was born on February ninth 1944‚ the youngest of eight children raised by Willie Lee Walker and Minnie Lou Tallulah Grant. As a child Alice’s parents worked hard‚ her mother worked for eleven hours for $17 per week. When walker was young her mother defended her kids from working in other peoples fields by saying "You might have some black children somewhere‚ but they don’t live in this house. Don’t you ever come around here again talking about how my children don’t need to learn how

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    Alice Walker uses her own mother as a method to explain the creativity that has lived on in black women from the post-Reconstruction era on. She explains her mother telling stories which came naturally like breathing and her mother’s magnificent garden. Her mother tended the garden while still continuing her work in the field throughout the day and caring for her children. She was creating beauty where there was never any room for any. Walker noticed that only when her

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    Alice Walker "Beauty"

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    W/F-71470 Professor Mackenzie In Alice Walker’s “Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self‚” we are introduced to a self-confident‚ charismatic child. Through‚ “Im the prettiest!” and “It was great fun being cute” we sense a wave of pride as Walker describes herself as a child. (Walker‚ 47‚48) However‚ this joy soon comes to an end as Walker is faced with an “accident.” Unfortunately‚ she is shot with a BB gun and is scarred and blinded in her right eye. Walker suffers throughout the story‚ struggling

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