To Hell With Dying Analysis

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peak of its activity, for walker, she has more important things do than learn to behave like a lady. Walker influenced by her history professor, Howard Zinn, leftist intellectual “the first white man with whom she’d ever had a real conversation” (Donnelly17), who shares her as one of the blacks discontent of injustices of segregation “Both on the Spelman campus and in the often surreal, segregated world of Atlanta. Professor Zinn, attentive and always bearing a warm and welcoming smile, stood in unshakable solidarity with black people” (17). His encouragement of student resistance and his being in favor of their rebellions against the restrictions imposed by their college leads in the summer of 1963 to his dismiss, when Walker was staying far …show more content…

As young artist, Walker after graduation moves to the Lower East Side of New York City to follow the others. Her political beliefs and her desire to help people leads her to have a job on welfare navigate New York City’s massive Social Services Department “We were all radical movement people who wanted to save the world. We believed that working for the welfare department would give us a chance to help people” (White, 122). Through her work, Walker notices the condition of poor urban residents and the effect of poverty on their lives, she remembers her own rural sharecropping background and portrays it in her novel The Third Life of Grange Copeland with reference to violence and racial and economic injustice in the rural South and the urban North. While she is studying at Spelman, Walker refused an offer to study in Europe financed by the cofounder of the financial firm, Charles Merrill, who believes that Europe was not the “cradle of civilization.” for black. For walker, it means another kind of colonization tries to instill its values in young black Americans. She started working with (NAACP) the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s Legal Defense and Educational Fund, she was working in Mississippi for Marian Wright, then with the head of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund,

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