Alice Walker

But her main purpose was to write about husbands that were extremely violent and abusive. ¡¨ Since the beginning of her writing career she has written 16 books, including five novels, several collections of essays, short stories, children¡¦s books, and poems. After I knew a little about her past I understood her writing and what she was trying to say. She continued her writing, also accepted a teaching position at Jackson State University and she published her first volume of poetry, ¡§Once. She was in civil rights movements and at that time women did not have equal rights like the men. She discusses topics such as spousal abuse, fear of death, female sexuality, and incest (Whitaker 86). In the conversation they talk about their feelings of the world. It was just inevitable that if I looked out and saw people in all their radiant fighting beauty, then I would just stuck with love for them¡¨ (Sealeve, 1998). She later on fell in love with a Jewish law student named Mel Leventhal. People started to acknowledge her works, realizing her main points of her stories.

How is Alice Walker doing now? In Shambhala Sun: A Wind Through the Heart, a conversation with Alice Walker and Sharon Salzberg on loving kindness in a painful world. After attending the conference she started to love traveling around meeting many people and cultures of the world. In the books she wrote I felt her pain in the story, but I didn¡¦t know what was it about until I found biographical information about her. Her writing has been known across the world because she expresses her thoughts and feelings in her writings that make people realize that her thoughts are similar to their own thoughts. She was so frightened because she didn¡¦t know how to tell her parents.