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Alice Walker
What Influenced her Writing Style?
Her life journey influenced her writing style.Personal life experiences as an African
American woman.
African American women and their rights.
Personal life
As a small child she was accidentally shot in her right
eye and went blind in that eye as a result of the incident. (she had to find a way to deal with her loneliness).
She grew up around a violent racist environment.
She also grew up in poverty.
African American Women Rights
Her works has been greatly influenced by her life of
activism and struggles that African American experienced during slavery and the times
there after she shares it in her quotes.
African American women had very little rights in the
early 1900’s. Society looked at them as lower beings.
Even though slavery had ended, some of them were
still treated like slaves.
Quotes by Alice Walker
“There is a special grief felt by the children and
grandchildren of those who were forbidden to read,
forbidden to explore, forbidden to question or to
know.”
I’ll try to teach my heart not to want things I can’t
have”
Quotes cont’d“Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for
you.” “Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.”
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
“Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.”
Quotes Cont’d“ I have learned not to worry about love, but
honor its coming with all my heart.”
Her Writings……
Wrote several novels
The Color Purple
Meridian
The Third Life of Grange Copeland
Writings cont’d
Published numerous numbers of poetry
Once
Revolutionary Petunias and other poems
Collected Poems
Wrote Short Stories
In Love and Trouble
You Can’t Keep A Good Women Down
Alice Walker uses her life experiences as a poor African
American child in a discriminatory town and used her
voice to speak out.
Her works influenced her writing by turning her life
experiences and using them in celebrating her
accomplishments of a strong African American
woman.
Her writing has helped to bring the civil rights
movement to into the forefront of society.
Although her writing style varied, her themes always
connect to African American Heritage and hardships.
She is well known for her book “The Color Purple. Her writing focused on African American
women and human rights. She made a stand to fight for
the rights of ALL women.
She expressed the pain and suffering she and other
African American women experienced in human
treatment, human sexuality, and cruelty against
women.
She used her writing to expose her personal life.
Alice Walker uses her writing to give voice to those she
felt could not be heard.
Her writings and poems expressed the wrong doing
that African America women experienced from
African American men.
Alice Walker’s strengths:
Family
Self-worth
Spirituality
Community
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