Alice Walker

Alice Walker is one of the most admired African American writers, activists, and feminists in modern American society. Walker was born into a society where the norms were marked by racial, sexual, and poverty issues. Growing up in a big family, Walker was the youngest of eight children and was raised poor but her appreciation for life shines right through her writings. Walker writes mainly through several personal experiences, thoughts and feelings. As a writer, in both the historical and modern context, Walker faced many issues involving racial discrimination and sexism which helped shape her writing in that direction. Walker’s essays, short stories, and poems brought much attention to the horrific mistreatment African Americans received

The main approach she uses is the feminist approach in which the role of women is negated. Not only does she write about typical women but the African American women. The African American women were minimized and Walker often raised awareness about the significance, uniqueness, and nature of African American women during this time. Not enough praise was given to African American women and Walker insisted on giving African American women their credit through her short stories, poems, and novels. Another critical approach Walker uses in her work is the Marxist approach in which she points out the opposition between the capitalist and working classes. Walker often wrote about people who were in lower classes that were poor and mistreated, who spent their lives working hard to rise above their deprived lives which often resulted in suppression. Since Walker was born into poverty, she recollects what it was like to have nothing and learned to appreciate what little she

Walker writes about her perceptive of how certain aspects appear to her. This method tends to make readers reconsider their previous thoughts and opinions after reading Walker’s work. She portrays the idea of reality that is to be found in the mental perception of externals and tend to have her audience understand the world and her specific perspective about it. This approach causes the reader to respond by applying the intended message behind her work to their future responses and actions in any given situation. Her poetry has been praised for the affectionate tone that comes from her use of simple form and