Alice Walker

What Influenced her Writing Style?

Her life journey influenced her writing style.Personal life experiences as an African

American woman.

African American women and their rights.

Personal life

As a small child she was accidentally shot in her right

eye and went blind in that eye as a result of the incident. (she had to find a way to deal with her loneliness).

She grew up around a violent racist environment.

She also grew up in poverty.

African American Women Rights

Her works has been greatly influenced by her life of

activism and struggles that African American experienced during slavery and the times

there after she shares it in her quotes.

African American women had very little rights in the

early 1900’s. Society looked at them as lower beings.

Even though slavery had ended, some of them were

still treated like slaves.

Quotes by Alice Walker

“There is a special grief felt by the children and

grandchildren of those who were forbidden to read,

forbidden to explore, forbidden to question or to

know.”

I’ll try to teach my heart not to want things I can’t

have”

Quotes cont’d“Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for

you.” “Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.”

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”

“Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.”

Quotes Cont’d“ I have learned not to worry about love, but

honor its coming with all my heart.”

Her Writings……

Wrote several novels

The Color Purple

Meridian

The Third Life of Grange Copeland

Writings cont’d

Published numerous numbers of poetry

Once

Revolutionary Petunias and other poems

Collected Poems

Wrote Short Stories

In Love and Trouble

You Can’t Keep A Good Women Down

Alice Walker uses her life experiences as a poor African

American child in a discriminatory town and used her

voice to speak out.

Her works influenced her writing by turning her life

experiences and using them in celebrating her

accomplishments of a strong African American

woman.

Her writing has helped to bring the civil rights

movement to into the forefront of society.

Although her writing style varied, her themes always

connect to African American Heritage and hardships.

She is well known for her book “The Color Purple. Her writing focused on African American

women and human rights. She made a stand to fight for

the rights of ALL women.

She expressed the pain and suffering she and other

African American women experienced in human

treatment, human sexuality, and cruelty against

women.

She used her writing to expose her personal life.

Alice Walker uses her writing to give voice to those she

felt could not be heard.

Her writings and poems expressed the wrong doing

that African America women experienced from

African American men.

Alice Walker’s strengths:

Family

Self-worth

Spirituality

Community

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