Alice Walker: Life through her Eye
When Alice Walker was a little girl in a small town call Eatonton, Georgia, when her life changed before her very eyes. While playing with her brother, Walker was accidentally shot her in the eye with a BB gun by him. With her parents being so poor that they didn't take her to the hospital immediately. By the time they did get her some medical attention, it was too late, she was already blind in that eye. This injury forced her to look at the world in a way that she had never seen it before. With that new vision, we have great works from her as we know it today.
Walker is known for works like, Once: Poems, "Goodnight, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning"; "You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down", and The Color Purple. Although these works are all different forms such as short stories, novels and poems, they all have one thing in common: her personal experiences or someone close to her.
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Reading and talking about "Why War is Never a Good...Walker's style of writing reflects events that happened in her own personal life, as well as in the lives of family members. These experiences are shown in works such as The Color Purple and The Way Forward Is With A Broken Heart.
Walker reflects her own personal events throughout her work in many ways; for instance her first book of poetry, Once. She put these poems together acknowledging the hurt of an early pregnancy and abortion, which she considered a social experience shared by others that transcended her individual experience (Winchell 1). This collection of poems started her in the writing business. She wrote these poems during a short, frantic week following a harrowing abortion while at Sarah Lawrence (Davis 2).
Another poem that shows...