Alice Walker

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Walkers most influential example was her mother. Walker comments on how these women were not anything close to famous but just as simple as our mothers and grandmothers.

Walkers writing style presents her points by giving many examples of nameless black artists, describing the life and conditions of black women in the South and giving due respect to these “Saints”, as described by men who used them, whose ability went unnoticed by society. The author is appealing to all audiences, she is representing all past generations of black women, black women whose talent had gone disregarded. The title “In Search of Our Mothers Gardens” refers to the beautiful flowers that her mother adorned their poverty stricken house with. Alice Walker considered her mothers gardens of flowers art. She says that if we hadn’t constantly been looking high when we should have been looking low. ld be made known: but guessed, somehow in their darkness, that on day of their revelation they would be long dead. She also uses examples of famous talented black women who succeeded in getting their abilities known, artists such as Lucy Terry, Francis Harper, Zora Hurtston and Bessie Smith. Walker talks about Phillis Wheatley who “ had she been white, would have been easily considered the intellectual superior of all the women and most of the men in society of her day. “ This quote from the essay expresses how these women knew they were gifted but were forbidden to prove themselves to the world. She considers her own mother an artist, although she hadn’t noticed until many years later, by the stories she told that came so natural to her. Her mother was a talented artist in adorning their house in these variety of colorful flowers and by the stories she told, she was a “women who literally covered the holes in our walls with sunflowers. This women was obviously extremely talented and eager to express herself through any material she could find.

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Approximate Word count = 542
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

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