5-pages (1375 Words)
INSTRUCTIONS
Relating to the drama section of our class, you will write about the playwright Alice Walker and her work while incorporating elements of the dramatic short story “Am I Blue”. Tell me about who she is, theme and underlying issues you see and feel, and apply all the
elements we have learned in class as they apply to different sections of the story. You may compare this story to another of the playwrights works if you so choose. You may include
You may include outside sources that relate to the theme, character and overall pattern of the story.
You may include outside sources that relate to the theme, character and overall pattern of the story.
You may include outside sources that relate to the theme,
Be sure to include a work cited page.
You may include reference to any of the other short dramas we covered in class that Walker wrote.
Your final essay needs to be 5 pages, not including your citation page.
Minimum 3 outside sources for citations.
Details of the assignment and added specifics can be found within the Brightspace assignment tab.
Again, for all the above, follow the proper MLA formatting.
The quote, “Ain’t these tears in my eyes telling you?” was expressed by Alice Walker in her story "I am Blue". Walker made the quote to express the plight of animals and the telltale signs that they exhibit, but many owners fail to recognize them, either out of ignorance or lack of understanding. In the story, I am Blue; Walker starts by explaining her relationship with the horse called Blue before further explaining the different ways through which animals express their emotions (par.2). The story explains how Walker gets to learn about the feelings of her horse by close observing it goes through different events in life. This essay seeks to analyze the famous piece, Am I Blue, by Alice Walker, paying attention to the biography of the playwright, the underlying themes in the text, the overarching issues in the text, and the characters.
Alice Walker is an African American writer who has tremendously succeeded in authorship because of her different great pieces. As an author, she regards herself as a poet, story writer, novelist, and social activist. Walker was born in 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia, and she was the youngest in the family of eight children. She grew up at a time when racial discrimination was still very rampant in the U.S (Fembio.org. par. 3). As an African American child, she had to endure discrimination at school and had to attend a black school. Walker was an exemplary performer, and she completed high school at Butler Baker High School and became a valedictorian.
This experience made her develop a low self-esteem because she thought she was not beautiful compared to the girls. Secondly, when she was at Sarah Lawrence College, she became pregnant and procured an abortion. These two major experiences threw her into introspection, triggering her deep creativity in writing poems and stories. Apart from her personal challenges, Walker grew up in a hostile society as an African American because racism was all around her (Hamamra, Bilal Tawfiq 259). She witnessed how many people failed to realize the challenge she and other minorities were facing in society. These experiences and her later relationship with her horse enhanced her level of empathy for the suffering of others. This trait influenced her story Am I Blue and the famous quote, “Ain’t these tears in my eyes telling you?” because she noticed that many people fail to realize the pain of others until they find themselves in similar situations..........................
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