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    Alice Walker: The Achievement of the Short Story By Alice Hall Petry‚ accessed from JSTOR In this article‚ the Pulitzer Prize winning author‚ Alice Walker‚ is narrowly described as a phenomenal writer; yet her short stories‚ 1973’s In Love and Trouble and 1981’s You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down‚ are criticized for their individual uniqueness that sets them widely apart from her prized writing‚ 1982 novel‚ The Color Purple. The author of this article goes into great detail about each short story

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    disagree in another since. What I mean is that Americans are not responsible for every reason that a country stays a third world country. Valdez believes that if everyone adopt a multicultural perspective through a philosophical perspective point of view by understanding

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    “Literature influences each individual differently” (Clugston‚ 2010). In Alice Walker’s short story The Welcome Table‚ it allowed the readers to read and learn about how‚ and what life was like for an elderly black lady during the 1960s. During these times blacks were discriminated against and the cruel treatment that they endured as human beings was unnatural and unheard of to us in this day and time. In this short story by Ms. Walker‚ it portrays to the readers how during this time period the African

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    inherited‚ passed down from generations to generations. It includes inherited traditions‚ objects‚ culture‚ customs and practices. In the short story “Everyday Use”‚ Alice Walker explores this aspect of heritage with emphasize on the value of cultural heritage in the African American community in the late 1960s and in the early 1970s. The setting of “Everyday Use” took place in post-civil era when the African Americans were trying to find their own identity‚ which resulted to the formation of The Black

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    Writing. Eds. X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. 11th ed. New York: Pearson Longman. 2010. 469-470. Print. Alice Walker believes that quilting and piecing represents both the artistic heritage of Afro-American women and the model of a black feminist‚ writing about connection and understanding. “In the Smithsonian Institution in Washington‚ D.C.‚” Walker describes a quilt that illustrates biblical stories. Walker believes that imagination and feelings can be acknowledged without the use of quilts or museums

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    Alice Walker is a dedicated activist and she stands for causes that she has experienced directly. In turn‚ those experiences and personal situations have impacted her writing topics and style. In her writings‚ past and current‚ the conflicts that she writes about are a direct reflection of her life. Alice Walker grew up in the south‚ in poverty and during a period of time that saw the ‘legal’ end of racism but the spirit of racism continued to live on. The struggle to overcome the obstacles she grew

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    Alice Walker’s The Color Purple chronicles the lives of African-American women living in the deep American South during the 1930s. Taking place mostly in rural Georgia‚ the novel addresses the many issues that plague black women‚ especially their exceptionally low status in the social culture. Walker cleverly tells the story of two sisters‚ Celie and Nettie‚ through a series of letters and diary entries. Celie‚ a poor‚ uneducated young woman‚ has been sexually abused by the man she believed was

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    "Everyday Use" The story "Everyday Use"‚ written by Alice Walker‚ is a story of heritage‚ pride‚ and learning what kind of person you really are. In the exposition‚ the story opens with background information about Dee and Maggie’s life‚ which is being told by Mama. The reader learns that Dee was the type of child that got everything and had everything that she wanted‚ while Maggie was the complete opposite. The crisis‚ which occurs later in the story‚ happens when Dee all of a sudden comes home

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    The Color Purple by Steven Spielberg is a film and the main plot is a black man that beats and abused his wife‚ Celie. Celie was happy at first to get out of her house because of her abusive father that took her kids away from her but at the same time distraught of leaving her sister. The movie had originated from a book written by Alice Walker. Alice walker was accused of favoring white feminists while at the same time being very bitter to the black males. After the movie premiered‚ Alice was criticized

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    The Color Purple is a biased‚ unbalanced view into the life of black women during the early to mid-nineteen hundreds. While it is obvious that a woman who in her own right is racist‚ chauvinist‚ and ignorant to the way that the world really works wrote the novel‚ it has been requested that the class write a paper on the story. Whilst this writer does not agree with this novel or anything that Alice Walker thinks or feels‚ obligingly this paper is been written. The Color Purple and the Joy Luck Club

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