Alice Walker Research Paper
Alice Walker
Karin Leiva
November 6, 2012
Lisa Evans
English 9
Leiva 1
Alice Malsenior Walker was born on February 9, 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia. She is an American author, poet, and activist. She has written both fiction and essays about gender and race. Her writing mostly focuses on the role of women of color in their culture and history. Alice Walker actually expresses’ her feeling in any of her works. She usually reflects on herself and her feelings through her writing and because of this she has won various awards. Books such as: Temple of my Family, Possessing the Secret of Joy, and the Third Life of Grange Copeland, in these books she explains her feelings and talks about how racism affected a certain person or how they were treated. As Alice Walker said, “"To me, the black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people." …show more content…
When she graduated and got married, they both worked together in Mississippi, registering blacks to vote. She then went off helping others who had been thrown aside for wanting to vote. Ever since then, Alice Walker has mainly focused on the struggles of African American, as they witness against societies that are racist, sexist, and violent. Throughout her writing career, Alice Walker has been involved in the black movement and displays strong feelings towards the respect black women get. Cause of this she has won several awards for her plain depiction of racism in her novels. She has been one of the most suppressed writers in American Literature because of her writing style. She is also, best known for the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple, for which she won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer
Karin Leiva
November 6, 2012
Lisa Evans
English 9
Leiva 1
Alice Malsenior Walker was born on February 9, 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia. She is an American author, poet, and activist. She has written both fiction and essays about gender and race. Her writing mostly focuses on the role of women of color in their culture and history. Alice Walker actually expresses’ her feeling in any of her works. She usually reflects on herself and her feelings through her writing and because of this she has won various awards. Books such as: Temple of my Family, Possessing the Secret of Joy, and the Third Life of Grange Copeland, in these books she explains her feelings and talks about how racism affected a certain person or how they were treated. As Alice Walker said, “"To me, the black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people." …show more content…
When she graduated and got married, they both worked together in Mississippi, registering blacks to vote. She then went off helping others who had been thrown aside for wanting to vote. Ever since then, Alice Walker has mainly focused on the struggles of African American, as they witness against societies that are racist, sexist, and violent. Throughout her writing career, Alice Walker has been involved in the black movement and displays strong feelings towards the respect black women get. Cause of this she has won several awards for her plain depiction of racism in her novels. She has been one of the most suppressed writers in American Literature because of her writing style. She is also, best known for the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple, for which she won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer