Salvation By Alice Walker Analysis

124 Words1 Page

“Salvation” by Langston and “Everyday use” by Walker are detail and dialogue base stories. Both stories are first person narrative and written from the characters perspective, which able to put the readers in the narrators shoes and feel their emotions. For instance in Hugh story the question “why don’t you come? Why don’t you come to Jesus?” this sentence makes the readers to feel the pressure and frustration. Personally I like the story of Alice walker “Everyday use” because it embraces the important of family heritage and tradition. For example, after my grandmother passed away, my mother send me a gourd bottle that my grandmother used it for milk storage. It reminds of my grandmother and her legacy.I really appreciate family heritage and

Show More
Related

  • Witness By Karen Hesse Analysis

    411 Words  | 1 Pages

    Every book has a theme, a main idea that is carried throughout the story, and most novels have more than one. Main ideas are threads that weave the story together. Ideas like friendship or love often are used to tell the story. Witness by Karen Hesse has an obvious theme of racism; however, love, hate, and sacrifice are woven into the plot with sacrifice being the most important.

    Read More

  • Similarities Between Hughes And Frederick Douglass

    327 Words  | 1 Pages

    Frederick Douglass and Langston Hughes were both talented African-Americans authors in their time, both were known for their impressive influence works. Douglass's is known to use storytelling to bring the themes and his readers in focus in his writing. Douglass is more of a narrative writer who likes to bring a humor in his writing to make it interest for his readers, like Douglass, Hughes is said to be a more skillful and enduring storyteller than he is being a poet. So both Douglass and Hughes are both good at using storytelling in their writing. Langston Hughes is also said to be a genius writer that captures and utilize the realities of the beauty and the relative importance of African-American heritage while Douglass on the other hand

    Read More

  • A Life Of Perseverance In Eudora Welty And Alice Walker's Short Story

    1014 Words  | 3 Pages

    Perseverance can be defined as a “continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failures, or oppositions” (“Perseverance”). In their short stories "A Worn Path" and "Everyday Use," Eudora Welty and Alice Walker show perseverance in their characters Phoenix and Mama. Both of these women narrate the passages and are the main characters as well. Welty and Walker both described Phoenix and Mama as characters of determination, willing to overcome obstacles set in their way. These obstacles include racism, environment, oppression, and physical/mental ability.

    Read More

  • Salvation: Faith's Destruction

    393 Words  | 1 Pages

    A time comes in everybody's life where they need to be "saved." When this happens a spiritual bond is formed with in that individual. In Langston Hughes' essay, "Salvation," that bond is broken because Langston wasn't saved. It is because Langston turned to Jesus, and in his eyes Jesus wasn't there. This creating a conflict within himself and the members of the church, with the end result being Langston's faith being destroyed.

    Read More

  • The Last Hurrah And The Living Is Easy Analysis

    658 Words  | 2 Pages

    After reading from the novels The Last Hurrah and The Living is Easy, both surrounding the city of Boston in similar eras with similar views on public and political life, what comes to mind most of all is the portrayal of the middle class. This middle class is not the idea conjured from traditional historical figures, but rather a constantly fluctuating zone of monetary and social value. Being vague by definition, the middle class arises as people move from the inner city to the suburbs and form newly constructed neighborhoods, which were previously held by the wealthy. In The Living is Easy, Cleo desperately tries to rid herself of the stigmatism surrounding her race and the stereotypes, which follow it. By moving to Brookline, she attempts to move up in the world. The Irish immigrants in West’s novel are even more visible in The Last Hurrah. O’Connor’s novel fast-forwards to the beginning of the Irish expansion to the suburbs and into a state of normalcy and association with the middle class. Race is a prevalent issue in both novels and surrounds the commencement of moving to a new social and political stature within city society. While Cleo looks inward and remains aware of the state of her appearance and that of others around her, Skeffington is maintaining his own image and does not wish to evolve towards any new horizon. Racially, the novels’ protagonists share a differentiation from other people in their society. Cleo is of a minority among the middle class and Skeffington has made his life to serve and be idolized by them. With each story coming into contact with racial migration, it’s fair to say that the construction of each of these novels leaves the reader with a view of a changed city, where neighborhoods are changing...

    Read More

  • Redemption in Alice Walker's Color Purple

    1209 Words  | 3 Pages

    Alice Walker grew up in rural Georgia in the mid 1900s as the daughter of two poor sharecroppers.  Throughout her life, she has been forced to face and overcome arduous lessons of life.  Once she managed to transfer the struggles of her life into a book, she instantaneously became a world-renowned author and Pulitzer Prize winner.  The Color Purple is a riveting novel about the struggle between redemption and revenge according to Dinitia Smith.  The novel takes place rural Georgia, starting in the early 1900s over a period of 30 years.  Albert, also known as Mr._____, and his son Harpo must prevail over their evil acts towards other people, especially women.  Albert and Harpo wrong many people throughout their lives.  To be redeemed, they must first learn to love others, then reflect upon their mistakes, and finally become courageous enough to take responsibility for their actions.  In The Color Purple, Alice Walker effectively develops Albert and Harpo through redemption using love, reflection, and responsibility.

    Read More

  • Stay Alive My Son By Mary Rowlandson Analysis

    488 Words  | 1 Pages

    The pain fell like rain, kissing the tender cheeks of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson and the family of a little boy named Nawath. Both are stories of tragedy and the ultimate sacrifice of love over loss, or visa versa told in, “The Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson,” by Mrs. Mary herself and in, “Stay Alive My Son,” by a Mr. Pin Yathay. Both families are ripped from their comfortable lives, only one will be reunited and the other will not. Both dealing with the final act of love, but through two very different cultural perspectives. It fell steadily until one night, it flurried, no longer grazing the cheek, but staining the heart. That’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.

    Read More

  • Symbolism in Alice Walker's Everyday Use

    1557 Words  | 4 Pages

    Symbolism in Alice Walker's Everyday Use. History in the Making Heritage is something that comes to or belongs to one by reason of birth. This may be the way it is defined in the dictionary, but everyone has their own beliefs and ideas about what shapes their heritage. In the story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, these different views are very evident by the way Dee (Wangero) and Mrs. Johnson (Mama) see the world and the discrepancy of who will inherit the family’s quilts.

    Read More

  • Alice Walker's Literature

    1108 Words  | 3 Pages

    Alice Walker's Literature “Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence” -Alice Walker (Lewis n.pag) Walker is considered to be an African American novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, and activist. Most of her literature is mostly from her personal experiences and is moral to a number of African Americans all over the world. Walker defines herself as a “womanist” which means “the prophetic voice concerned about the well-being of the entire African American community, male and female, adults and children.

    Read More

  • Analysis of Alice Walker's short story, Nineteen Fifty-five

    1174 Words  | 3 Pages

    Alice Walker's short fictional story, "Nineteen Fifty-five", revolves around the encounters among Gracie Mae Still, the narrator, and Traynor, the "Emperor of Rock and Roll." Traynor as a young prospective singer purchases a song from Mrs. Still, which becomes his "first hit record" and makes him rich and famous. Yet, he does not "even understand" the song and spends his entire life trying to figure out "what the song means." The song he sings seems as fictional as certain events in this story, but as historical as Traynor's based character, Elvis Presley.

    Read More

  • Symbolism in the Short Story "Everyday Use"

    571 Words  | 2 Pages

    Alice Walker is a well-known African- American writer known for published fiction, poetry, and biography. She received a number of awards for many of her publications. One of Walker's best short stories titled "Everyday Use," tells the story of a mother and her two daughters' conflicting ideas about their heritage. The mother narrates the story of the visit by her daughter, Dee. She is an educated woman who now lives in the city, visiting from college. She starts a conflict with the other daughter, Maggie over the possession of the heirloom quilts. Maggie still lives the lifestyle of her ancestors; she deserves the right of the quilts. This story explores heritage by using symbolism of the daughters' actions, family items, and tradition.

    Read More

  • Point of View in Alice Walker's Everyday Use

    1143 Words  | 3 Pages

    Point of View in Alice Walker's Everyday Use. Alice Walker is making a statement about the popularization of black culture in "Everyday Use". The story involves characters from both sides of the African American cultural spectrum, conveniently cast as sisters in. the story of the. Dee/Wangero represents the "new black," with her natural.

    Read More

  • Becoming Saved

    433 Words  | 1 Pages

    Have you ever wondered why some people act like an entirely different person? Well, I have experienced a change like this, and it has made a huge difference in my life. I was saved in April of 2012, and since then other people and I have seen differences in my personality, moods, and how I reacted in certain circumstances. When I was saved, I noticed a change right away, like something has turned on inside me that has never turned on before. This experience has changed my life forever, and things will never be the way they were ever again.

    Read More

  • Analyzing Maura Dickey's Article 'Who Will Save The Savior'

    438 Words  | 1 Pages

    Doing what consequenally hurts the least of people is ethics. The article “Who Will Save the Savior” by Maura Dickey, does not do the right actions by highlighting the importance of not having a savior sibling ; the artical, “Mascots” shows the commonly practiced hypocrasy and racism; the song “Independence Day” by Grechen Peters isn’t exaclty ethically right either.

    Read More

  • The Sociological Criticism of Alice Walker

    1447 Words  | 3 Pages

    The definition of sociology is the study of society. Social criticism is the practice of analyzing a literary work by examining the cultural, political and economical context in which it was written or received. Alice Walker’s work demonstrates this type criticism very well; from The Color Purple to Everyday Use, or any of her earlier short stories. The majority of her work reveals the struggle of African Americans in society, especially women. Furthermore, her stories mirror a lot of the social characteristic that were taking place in America, from the 1940’s on; thus, making Alice Walker the epitome of sociological criticisms.

    Read More

More about Salvation By Alice Walker Analysis

Open Document