Themes: Parent/Child Relationship, Love, Loss Type: Free Verse Background Written by Alice Walker – awarded Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (The Colour Purple) The poet wrote this poem at an age where most people face a new phase in life This poem is partly about the sadness at the loss of a father and the regrets…
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker, is a very intense book to read. By intense, it is a book touching very difficult and hard aspects of life of a poor, black oppressed woman in the early twentieth century. Walker does social criticism in her novel, mostly criticizing the way black women were treated in the…
Alice Walker is an African-American novelist and poet; born in Eatonton, Ga. Her parents, Minnie Lou Grant and Willie Lee Walker, were both sharecroppers. She was raised in a shack minutes from Flannery O’Conner’s house, “Andalusia”. Blinded in one eye from an accidental gunshot wound at the young age of eight, Walker fell into somewhat…