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Post you Walker essay plans here: Planning Sheet answers, outline and introduction and conclusions. We might also post early drafts due Tuesday, March 11.
Post you Walker essay plans here: Planning Sheet answers, outline and introduction and conclusions. We might also post early drafts due Tuesday, March 11.
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Yolanda Gil
English 1A
Alice Walker (racism)
Outline
Intro: give background about Alice, date of birth, place where she was born, youngest child, title of book, author’s name, how the South look like back then,
Thesis: Alice Walker used her writing to resist racism and other forms of oppression.
Body
Paragraph 1
Alice Walker was born into a system where racial oppression and exclusion of people based on their race, was the norm. Racism is in various forms such segregation, oppression, and racial discrimination.
Supported evidence:
Alice’s great-grand father, Albert Walker, lost his land that he inherited from his father. At that time, local whites long envious and resentful of a black man like Albert Walker rising above his place had not been sorry to see him on hard times (17). As a result, the socioeconomic status for Alice’s great grand father, grand father, and her father’s family was a continuous economic oppression.
Paragraph 2
Alice Walker’s economic oppression through her early years shows the limitations to a decent education.
Supported evidence:
One example is the grammar school she attended was basically built by her father and the African American community that assisted with materials and labor. The reason, they had to build the school was due to the all-white Board of Education refused to provide funding to replace the leaky, dilapidated buildings where black children were being schooled (16). Another example of economic oppression was the concept of “separate but equal” .in which the school system allocated $1.43 for the schooling of a black child, compared to $10.23 for a white one (15). Also, it was unfair that black kids had to walk to school while white kids had a bus. This examples mention above shows Alice’s family lack of opportunities due to racism in the form of oppression.
Paragraph 3
Alice’s parents lived in an environment that shows how racism can darkened the spirits of people.
Supported evidence:
During Alice childhood, her family had to live in a rustic shack, in a rural isolated stretch of Milledgeville, Georgia that didn’t have the commodities that white people had. Her parents worked very hard from dawn to night but the income they received wasn’t enough to have plenty of food and basics such as medical. In the summer of 1952, Alice had her right eye injured by a bb pellet gun in which she required the assistance of a doctor. Alice, her father, Willie Lee Walker, and her brother, Jimmy Walker, walked up to the road to flag a passing driver down. A white man stopped but refused to give them a ride. The white man disregard towards Alice’s pain shows how inhumane a person becomes because believing in superiority race. Alice’s mother, Minnie Tallulah Grant, had been “horribly scarred and damaged” by the racial humiliations she suffered as a child (61). The only way out from living in a deep racist environment was to migrate to places where choices were available. Alice saw the need to get out of Georgia; otherwise, her soul would be darkened the same way as her parents because of all the injustice treatments done by whites. But Alice point of view changed when she saw hope to object to racism.
Paragraph 4
Alice resistance to segregation began when she saw Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the television screen.
Supported evidence:
Alice was sixteen when for the first time she knew that something needed to be done to finish with all the discrimination that her and her family had lived with. Dr. King was the symbol that gave Alice optimism to fight for justice and to end segregation. Alice decided, that instant, to remain in Georgia and join the Black Freedom Movement (60). Alice stated “At the moment I saw his resistance I knew I would never be able to live this country without resisting everything that sought to disinherit me, and I would never be forced away from the land of my birth without a fight” (60). Alice felt like a different person. She felt alive for the first time not like a zombie that didn’t have a purpose in life.
Paragraph 5
Alice desire to writing became stronger when she came to understand how Southern racism had restricted her from to pursuing other vocations.
Supported evidence:
While growing up Alice had an artistic interest not only writing but also painting as well as piano, except that her narrow sources stopped her from accomplishing it. After her eye surgery, Alice considered a career as a research scientist. But there were no microscopes, chemistry sets, or other tools of the trade available to black students in Georgia (59). Alice acceptance to Spelman College was a great deal to her and her family. In late August 1961, Alice was on a Greyhound bus on her way to College, she decided to sit down in the front section which had a sign “reserved” for white passengers. Alice was asked to sit in the back, for a white woman complained. As Alice remembers “In those seconds of moving, everything changed. I was eager to bring an end to the South that permitted my humiliation” (65).
Paragraph 6
In conclusion Alice struggle for years to get over racism and other forms of oppression by been strong and having the desire to write. She wrote about what is important not only for African Americans but for every person that can relate to the meaning of her writings.
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