Am I Blue Alice Walker Analysis

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Am I Blue? When hearing this title one might insight a colorful narrative that is meant for a youthful audience, when in fact the title is a representation of society’s dark and concealed meanings. Am I Blue by Alice Walker depicts all the struggles and hardships people have been through and still go through on a day to day basis. While the title suggests something pretty, the story itself proves to be far from it as one looking closely at the words and reading between the lines. This piece of literature is the epitimy of symbolism. The way Alice Walker was able to portray everything whether big or small with such a deeper meaning. At first, the story seems to be about a horse named Blue and imagines of beauty and happiness. A couple moving Another horse is brought out to the pasture and Blue I finally able to experience happiness. The woman is no longer just feeding able to sad Blue, but to blissful Blue and his new friend. Time after time of seeing Blue and his brown companion galloping through fields, she one day notices the horse is pregnant. Things were going considerably well and everything seemed to be content. However, the couple goes on a trip a when they return she goes out to feed apples to the horses, yet sees Blue by himself standing under the tree. Walker says, “I dreaded looking into his eyes-because I had of course noticed that Brown, his partner, had gone-but I did look. If I had been born into slavery, and my partner had been sold or killed, my eyes would have looked like that.” The children next door give insight on where the other horse went by explaining that horse had “been put with” Blue, which Walker explains was an expression that old people used when speaking of an ancestor during slavery who had been impregnated by her owner. Therefore, the brown horse did her job, she conceived and was taken somewhere else to live. All this to just leave Blue even at a lower state of depression than he was before. The same thing black people went through during slavery days, having someone you came to loved taken from you with the snap of a finger and the world does not stop to mourn your loss. As Blue remained a part of landscape, a friend came to visit and said "And it would have to be a white horse; the very image of

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