Alice Walker
In order to start this paper; I would like to explain why I have chosen Alice Walker as the author to write about. Through my own life experience I too have felt the pains prejudice. As a child I attended catholic schools as a means of education. Through the years from sixth grade to half of seventh I attended a private school in providence called Holy Name. There were only four white students in the entire school. That is including my brother and me. There was another white teenager in my brother's class and another white child in the fist grade. At that time, I was recently coming from another private school that was in Cranston and the general family income of those students was much higher than the income of the families at Holy Name. This was quite a change. When I first got there it was difficult to make friends. I was made fun of for being so "pale" and was called names like "ghost". I can remember one particular incident when I was sitting in the middle of the classroom and the teacher left the room. All the students began to throw crayons, pens, pencils, and markers at me. Even though they hurt I just sat there and didn't say anything or even move. I nev
I'm not saying that my experience could come close to any unfair situations that Alice Walker or any other African American may have faced. " (Walker 1556)With this depiction it can be thought that this is how theAfrican Americans were looked upon at that time, as "lame animals". I do believe though, that if "childish" sixth graders can overcome bigotry than so can adults. To me, Walker's description of the rest of the noose is also symbolic. Something that white people, "lighter skinned" people, would have. Maggie on the other hand was not as smart. I believe that when Walker says, "the summer was over" she is commenting on how the little girl now realizes that this is a body of a slave who was beaten and hung, and with this realization she loses her innocence. This can be interpreted as the decomposition of the rope is like how the unfair treatment of African Americans is like a decaying of civilization. Shapard, Robert and James Thomas, Sudden Fiction, W. In the story, Maggie is disfigured from a house fire, "Sometimes I can still hear the flames and feel Maggie's arms sticking to me, her hair smoking and her dress falling off in little black papery flakes" (Walker 1556 Everyday Use Norton Anthology). Norton Company, New York, London copyright 2000 p. She walks father than she has ever in the past during her search, and stumbles upon a dead body.
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