The story begins during her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas, and as the story progresses, she goes through many experiences. These are the situations that influence the advice she gives in her interview with Linda Wolf. A major point she emphasizes in her novel is the need to forgive yourself, and to continuously rise above your challenges. Angelou’s advice from the interview could be applied to many different situations that occurred in her life and memoir. Throughout Maya Angelou’s entire childhood, she hated how she looked, and her entire being.
This short story has reminded me of what my own mother is currently going through right now. She has lost everything from bankruptcy all the way to losing my step father to his affair with alcoholism. The feelings of loneliness and desperateness that I feel for my mother is what I experienced while reading this story. I feel as though my mother feels like there is no way out and could totally relate to Jennie and Jeff. I would love to fix everything for her but I know the only way is to keep going to school.
The purpose of the essay “I Want a Wife,” is to describe the many stereotypes women can be classified as in our everyday world. One literary element being used in the essay that I have identified would be the use of the writers plot creation. The writer did significant work using her own experiences and imaginary situation in order to engage the reader. She used Humor in order to demonstrate her hypothetical point of view. It is my opinion the writer used this element well, as it grabbed my attention and made it a fun and interesting reading.
After reading Jo Goodwin Parker’s essay, I did not feel a pity but instead I felt respect. She was in an unfortunate situation that forced her into a life not easy to live or deal with. But, with three children to care for, plus herself, she continued on with her life no matter what obstacles kept jumping in her path. I had an idea of what poverty was but after reading Parker’s essay, the ideas I had are shattered into a new realization of the true meaning of poverty. Her definition provides vivid images of what poverty truly means.
I began to read this book because of all the recommendations I have received on it. My friends, my sister, and my mother had all loved the book and the author so I decided to give it a try. By choosing this book, it gives others a sense of who I am as a reader, in showing others that I like to relate to the stories I read. In My Sister’s Keeper, I can relate to Anna’s love and hate for her sister. My sister and I don’t get along too well most of the time and occasionally an “I hate you!” comes out of one of our mouths, but when it comes down to it, the love in our hearts, no matter how deep, can always keep us together.
This epistolary novel, being written in first person, has given the readers a deeper understanding and emotion into inner personal changes, as well as changes in relationships and changes in religion. This illustrates that change is found in every aspect of life; whether that involves an individual, a group of people, or nothing to do with people but the environment they live in. Alice Walker introduces change of personal and inner alterations within her novel “The Color Purple”. Among the pages 183 and 184, Celie improves her attitude towards life significantly as she writes letters to her dearly loved sister, Nettie. As she writes to her, she explains how happy she is with her life at that point in time.
Kayla McKenzie College Prep English December 15, 2011 Mrs. Layne Wilson Dear Ms. Alice Walker, Your book, “The Color Purple,” is a really good book that I enjoyed reading. I like how you told a story of events that happened to a lot of black women in this era. People need to know the history of how they were treated and what people did to stop it. I like the way you made the theme of the book be a motivation to others that may be going through exactly what Celie and other women who were abused by evil men. This story is very liberating to young woman to have the courage to stand up for their selves.
Writing made her happy because she was able to confide in her diary. She considered it her friend since she couldn’t have any friends while hiding. It was what she was best at. Her diary was just very inspiring and touching that now, her diary has been translated into so many languages. Now people all around the world can read and see the impact Anne has made on
Noor Ghreiwati Alice Walker Alice Walker is truly one of the prominent female writers that always succeed at leaving the readers with a sense of awe. Her essays are rarely forgotten as they possess a strong image difficult to leave one's memory. Walker's overall purpose in her writing is to reveal how much suffering African American women endured and how they always overcame the obstacles; she reveals this purpose with narration. Some of her most known pieces of writing are "In Search of Our Mother's Gardens," "The Color Purple," "Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self," and "Everyday use." Throughout every piece of writing, one could easily view Walker's perspective on ideas, her way with words, her stylistic tendencies, her intellectual stance, and her emotional temper.
Then her mother died too. Writing helped her to overcome the pain of the losses, focused her extraordinary energy and even became a source of income. Her famous novels were “The awakening”, “At Fault”, “The story of an hour”, “The storm”. She was also famous for short stories writing the most famous of them were “A night of Acadie”, “The unexpected”, “The kiss”, “Beauty of the baby”, “Madam Celestin’s divorce”. The basis of all her stories is realistic image of the society and people, especially women with their own needs, she never doubt in the strength of women and thought that they can overcome any temptation.