An Analysis of Alice Walker's "everyday Use"
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An Analysis of Alice Walker's "Everyday Use"
Alice Walker's novel, The Color Purple, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1982. This novel, in addition to her short story collections and other novels, continue to touch the emotions of a vast audience. This ability, according to critics, has "solidified her reputation as one of the major figures in contemporary literature" (Gwynn 462). Born to sharecroppers in Eatonton, Georgia, in 1944, Alice Walker's life was not always easy. Her parents strived to provide a home at a time when political and social unrest were at their highest. According to critic Barbara Christian, "[T]hat oppression fosters a sustaining spirit that appears in Walker's writing"
(Kimmich). Walker attended Spelman University in Atlanta, where she first became active in civil rights. She went on to graduate from Sarah Lawrence College. Her own experiences, including being blinded in one eye as a child and having an abortion as a young woman, may have contributed to her ability to convey the feelings and thoughts of her characters to her audience. Many of Alice Walker's characters portray strong independent black women, but she also stresses the importance of the ties between family and other women (Kimmich). In the short story, "Everyday Use," this theme is evident by the independent nature of all three women and also by the strong tie that the mother feels for her both of her daughters.
"Everyday Use" is something that most people use to signify the common ordinary things we use on a daily basis. The author, by using this title, brings important significance to these items. The author may be trying to convey to the reader that our daily lives and the things we use every day are more important in learning who ...
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...ps. The narrator gives the reader the impression that Dee is the villain and Maggie, the underdog. When Maggie comes out on top, it stirs something in the reader that makes them glad it came out that way.
Works Cited
Gwynn, R. S. ed. Literature: A Pocket Anthology. New York: Longman, 2002. 462-470.
Kimmich, Allison."Alice Walker, Overview." Feminist Writers (1996). Literature Resource Center. 2003. GaleNet. Nicholls State University Library, Thibodaux, Louisiana.
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Walker, Alice. "Everyday Use." Literature: A Pocket Anthology. Ed. R. S. Gwynn. New York: Longman, 2002. 462-470.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how the mother, who is also the narrator, is a strong independent woman. she is proud of what dee has accomplished, although she doesn't understand her.
- Analyzes kimmich, allison's "alice walker, overview." feminist writers.
- Describes walker, alice, and r. s. gwynn's "everyday use." literature: a pocket anthology.
- Analyzes how the mother, who is also the narrator, is a strong independent woman. she is proud of what dee has accomplished, although she doesn't understand her.
- Analyzes kimmich, allison's "alice walker, overview." feminist writers.
- Describes walker, alice, and r. s. gwynn's "everyday use." literature: a pocket anthology.
- Analyzes how alice walker's novel, the color purple, has touched the emotions of a vast audience.
- Analyzes how walker's theme in the story is about relationships and how they can change over time.
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1004 wordsRead More - Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. Harcourt Bruce Jovanovich, Publishers. New York, San Diego, London, 1992
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- Analyzes how janie's grandmother nanny sees society as a hierarchy, with black women at the bottom.
- Explains that de white man is de ruler of everything as far as ah can see. he throws down de load and tells de nigger man to pick it up.
- Narrates how nanny dreamed of teaching a sermon about colored women sittin' on high, but slavery and years of dependence on white families have warped her dream. she can think of no better way to protect janie than marrying her
- Analyzes how hurston explores the role that sexism plays in black women's oppression. when 16-year-old janie refuses to be submissive to the crude killicks, he tries to break her spirit.
- Analyzes how joe starks wants to be a "big voice" in his all-black town. he gives janie possessions and status, but assumes that her identity will come only from her role as his wife.
- Analyzes how janie grows steadily in self-knowledge and discernment despite her oppressive environment. the horizon represents her need to explore all the dimensions of life and of her own self.
- Analyzes how janie finds happiness in her third marriage by rejecting the hierarchical, materialistic codes others have imposed on her. she works in the fields with tea cake, who is younger and much poorer.
- Explains janie's experience teaches her that learning about living means going to the horizon of her consciousness and establishing joyful relationships with others.
- Analyzes how hurston's character, walker, places greater emphasis on the importance of sisterhood in the color purple.
- Analyzes how celie and shug are reborn as full, creative human beings. when small groups of women succeed in establishing healing circles, these circles become more and more inclusive.
- Analyzes how the color purple takes up the project of women's self-definition where their eyes were watching god ends. shug, like janie, has grown strong by being true to her own experience.
- Analyzes how celie's church treats her bears out alphonso’s cynicism. she can't resolve the conflict between her justified rage at the "father" who abuses her and the church that has taught her, "bible say honor father and mother no matter what."
- Analyzes how meridian hill finds the black church transformed into a community keeping alive the spirit of martyrs such as martin luther king, jr.
- Analyzes how walker implies that the male-dominated church, an institution where women compete for men's attention and approval, cannot be a supportive community.
- Explains that shug's spiritual insight saves celie from remaining stuck in a bitter rejection of religion.
- Analyzes how shug develops the holistic consciousness of the christian mystics, of buddhist and.hindu thought, and of african animism.
- Analyzes how shug transforms celie's religious beliefs, but that transformation isn't easy. the anthropomorphized white god has obstructed her view of the world.
- Explains that walker calls the color purple a historical novel dealing with the historical and psychological threads of the lives her ancestors lived.
- Explains that language reveals and validates one's existence, and if the language we speak is denied, it is inevitable that the form we are permitted to assume historically will be one of caricature.
- Analyzes how the theme of women's exploitation by men is set in the larger context of the exploitative relationships between races and nations.
- Compares the color purple to hurston's, which takes its form from the storytelling traditions of black culture. walker links her novel to the larger literary tradition.
- Describes the works cited and consulted by alice walker // african american writers. kip austin hinton, ed. 11/16/98.
- Analyzes kubitschek, missy dehn's "tuh de horizon and back": the female quest in their eyes were watching
- Explains miller e. african american literature in the nineties // poets and writers magazine.
- Cites wade-gayler, gloria, the genius of alice walker // southern women writers. the new generation.
- Describes the critical essays on alice walker, ed. by ikenna dieke, greenwood press, westpoint, connecticut, london, 1999, and "finding celie's voice."
2372 wordsRead More - The Color Purple, by Alice Walker in 1982 and later made into a movie in 1985 directed by Steven Speilburg tells the story of a young women of color named Celie who endured countless hardships in the time period of racial discrimination and sexism. Celies character also portrays an hideous, deprived girl who was lacking self-confidence. She is mortified of who she is, and there is no one to take note or who will be able understand to her with the exception of God. Celie hopes God will provide her the answers she desires to identify her life. "I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can giv...
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- Analyzes how events in history have influenced writers’ style, and the importance in their stories. alice walker wrote a novel which was very much subjective by the time period of the 1940’s.
- Analyzes the story of celie, a young woman of color who endured countless hardships in the time period of racial discrimination and sexism.
- Analyzes how celie remained strong during her terrible ordeal with the faith she had in her god and overcame obstacles to show the strength of a woman. the oppression of women is unmistakable in the color purple.
- Analyzes how events in history have influenced writers’ style, and the importance in their stories. alice walker wrote a novel which was very much subjective by the time period of the 1940’s.
- Analyzes the story of celie, a young woman of color who endured countless hardships in the time period of racial discrimination and sexism.
- Analyzes how celie remained strong during her terrible ordeal with the faith she had in her god and overcame obstacles to show the strength of a woman. the oppression of women is unmistakable in the color purple.
- Analyzes how celie's father sold her to a man who had no intent of loving or caring for her, and her husband physically and verbally abused her.
- Analyzes how celie's character transformed from an ugly scared girl to a strong colorful proud woman in the movie.
- Explains that the color purple supports many of the value, such as developing the guts to resist individuals whose bring nothing but pain, to stand firm and recognize that no person is an island, and the transition to adulthood.
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