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Social Work and The Color Purple

her supposed advice and is incredibly confused and upset by Celies advice. While Celie is sorry she is not in a position in her li...

Film / Novel Color Purple

her, told her, "You better not never tell nobody but God. Itd kill your mammy (1)" which resulted in her writing letters that "are...

Guilt and Grief in The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

how to save her legs and he and Buckley become almost inseparable. However, in the background, Jack makes it clear that he still c...

An Analysis of The Lovely Bones

is the protagonist in the story for it is her story we are essentially watching, although we are watching it often through the liv...

Mind and Body in the Works of Judith Ortiz Cofer and Alice Walker

from thereon, looked different. She was no longer cute, but different. Other people did not seem to care that she looked different...

The Concept of Home and Family in the Works of Hansberry and Walker

she can show off to society. In Hansberrys play the story involves a family who is awaiting an inheritance. They all have their ...

Alice Walker and Amy Tan

who is not incredibly involved in her one daughters life. That daughter is Dee. The other daughter, Maggie, lives with her and the...

Spirituality and Storytelling in Beloved by Toni Morrison

was painful or lost" (69). Beloved wants to hear about the diamond earrings that Mrs. Garner gave Sethe to mark her marital union...

Fashion and Status in 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

abilities, illustrating how and why she wears the clothing she does: "I can work outside all day, breaking ice to get water for wa...

Applying Carol Pearson's Archetypes to Literature

nature, such as a tree, or a flower. What Frankl noticed was that those survivors of the camps, such as he was, came out of the ca...

Alice Walker and Ellen Glasgow on Wives, Women, and 'the Other Woman'

willing to relegate to someone elses power. In Walkers essay, however, the focus is on pornography and the subtle way in which it ...

America and Being Black and Female

love and cherish them for who they are. But it does not happen in these stories, nor does it seem to be happening within the moder...

'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker and Revelation

to her" (2274). Maggie had a disfiguring accident as a child, the result of the familys home burning to the ground. As her mothe...

Walker, Pearson, Frankl, Miller, and Fromm on Identity and Meaning

In 5 pages these 20th century writers and thinkers are examined regarding their interpretations of identity and life's meaning in ...

A Review of Everyday Use

quality, and that is indeed the way she first appears. However we will soon see that she has many qualities, which add to her str...

'The Doctor's Wife' and 'The Color Purple'

In this 7 page paper, there are six similarities and six differences between these texts authored by Sawako Ariyoshi and Alice Wal...

Three Short Stories Set in the American South

this story that Dees mother has always secretly longed for acceptance from Dee. Mrs. Johnson was always amazed by her daughters "...

Virginia Woolf and Ibsen

When she is speaking of the characters of Desdemona and Antigone, which is important to examine in order to compare to the charact...

Walker's To Hell With Dying

the story, the children would be summoned, and the narrators father would let them go, saying something to the effect of "to hell ...

Six Short Stories, Summary and Analyses

This paper presents discussion of "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan, "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, ...

Everyday Use by Alice Walker

This essay presents an analysis of "Everyday Use, " a short story, by Alice Walker. Nine pages in length, seven sources are cited....

Alice Walker and George Orwell

of these introductory lines the reader is made privy to who the individual is in some way, where they are, and ultimately what the...

Hills Like White Elephants and Everyday Use

are giving in to another, and also demonstrating how they are not necessarily self confident or overly concerned about themselves ...

“Everyday Use” - The Importance of the Story’s Title

charming and funny and sad, all at the same time. This paper explains the significance of the title by examining it using the diff...

Wangero’s Betrayal

shows the dilemma of those who seek to build a new life for themselves, at the cost of betraying their heritage. This paper discus...

Where are You Going, Where Have You Been and Everyday Things

say to her" (Walker,56). Maggie views herself as mentally inferior to Dee or as Walker puts it "she knows she...

Various Quotations and their Meaning

This essay is made-up of eleven mini-essays, which all offer explanation of a quote taken from great works of literature by Virgin...

Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf and Community

chapters, Woolf presents scenes of varying lengths, which are separated by a blank space, with each scene offering a fragmentary v...

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, A Review

This 3 page paper gives an example of a film review. This paper includes a review of the play called Who's Afraid of Virginia Wool...