Am I Blue Alice Walker has been an activist for most of her life. Walker travels the world to help fight for the poor and the oppressed. She also stands for the revolutionaries who want to transform the world for the better. She is a defender of not only human rights but the rights of animals as well. In her essay “Am I Blue” she discovers the feelings of a horse named Blue. The essay is meant to show a different side of animals and show the audience the human-like traits that horses have. She compares
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Alice Walker’s essay Am I Blue?‚ is on the surface‚ a statement about how humans treat animals and the right’s of animals. However‚ on a deeper level‚ Walker is making a very powerful argument about how human animals treat each other much the same way they treat non human animals. All though history‚ horses have been symbols of power and grace. Gigantic herds of mustangs were once seen galloping on the American frontier. Alice Walker brings you to her reality‚ with the story of a beautiful horse
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I believe Walker’s main point is that animal’s have feelings too and should have rights‚ just like us‚ but we seem to forget that as we get older. She uses a lot of good analogies in her essay “Am I Blue?” because she’s comparing feelings of different people‚ like the African-American’s and Indians‚ with animal’s feelings. She uses human examples of communication and feelings to help make people understand that animals have feelings and right’s just like were given to African American’s and Indian’s
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John F. Vital Prof. Hans College Comp 1 10 February 2013 Am I Blue Argument Many people in this world suffer for many different reasons. Though we aren’t the only ones who suffer in this world‚ animals do as well. Every animal in this planet are like humans in a way because they are like us in the inside. They can’t talk to you but in various ways they express themselves. Blue is similar to what happened to women who were slaves when the owner would rape the slave so she can conceive and
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In "Everyday Use‚" the author Alice Walker tells the story of a mother and her two daughters’ conflicting ideas about their identites and heritage. She demonstrates different sides of culture and heritage through the characters of Mama‚ Dee‚ and Maggie whom portray different opinions on the qualities and outlooks of life. The author uses the conflict to make the point that the make up of an object or of a person is more important than the looks. In Alice Walker’s story "Everyday Use‚" she uses the
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Rhetorical Analysis of Alice Walker’s "Am I blue" In the essay‚ “Am I Blue?” by Alice Walker‚ Walker discusses the emotions that animals have and the similarities that those emotions have to human emotions. In this way‚ Walker is comparing her emotions‚ as a human‚ to the emotions of a horse (Blue). Walker uses imagery to portray this comparison. When speaking of the horse‚ Walker uses phrasing that illuminates the human characteristics of Blue. Walker claims that “Blue was lonely. Blue was horribly lonely
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The short story‚ “The Flowers” by Alice Walker is about Myop‚ a small black girl full of energy and curiosity who leaves the safety and peacefulness of her family’s cabin to collect new and wonderful flowers. Through her adventure‚ she finds a decaying dead body and this is when her innocence is over. Walker employs symbolism‚change of setting and tone‚ and imagery in order to instill in his readers the importance of exploring their world because some paths are hidden till we go and find them.
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stories “Am I Blue?” by Bruce Coville and “Hum” by Naomi Shihab Nye both illustrate the uselessness of judging a book by its cover. In the short story “Am I Blue?” by Bruce Coville‚ Vince‚ the main character‚ discovers that people are not always what them seem. In this story Vince‚ who is questioning his sexuality‚ is the main target for harassment because his classmates think he is gay. When Vince receives his very own fairy godfather‚ he makes a wish that turns everyone who is gay the color blue. Vince
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“Am I Blue?” In the essay‚ “Am I Blue?” from Living by the Word in 1986 by Alice Walker‚ Walker explains how animals can display similar emotions to that of humans. She brings attention to her readers on how to understand that an animal can experience the same emotions as humans do. Walker compares her emotions to a horse by the name of Blue. Feeling ‘blue’ is also known as feeling sad‚ which is one of the emotions Walker recognizes in Blue. Walker tells a story of how this horse goes through an
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ALICE WALKER Alice Walker was an activist and feminist because she protested for the right of blacks to vote in Georgia and Mississippi. She was against racism and also sexism. On March 8th 2003‚ 5‚000 protestors and Alice Walker marched from Malcolm X Park to the White House for women to have the same human rights as men. She also made an activist group with 60 other female activists in order to persuade Israel and Egypt to open their borders in Gaza. She wrote and supported various civil rights
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