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Alice Walker Supports the American Dream because her works highlight the racism, the sexism, and oppression undergone by African-Americans and women during the 1960’s

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It it quite obvious that Alice Walker supports the American Dream, as she continuously highlights socio-political issues faced by African-American and women. Within the first paragraph of Themes and Construction: The Color Purple, we already hear about how the main character, Celie, is raped by her stepfather, Alphonso. He tell’s her to not tell anyone but God. Alphonso just used God, and religion as an excuse to rape his own stepdaughter. Just like how slaveowners used the Bible to justify slavery.

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Given that Alice Walker grew up as a child of Georgia Sharecroppers, it is only logical that she would believe in the American Dream.

After all, why would love the very same system that has been oppressing African-Americans for generations, hen she herself, is an African-American?

The entire point of sharecropping is for people to farm land in exchange for giving up a share of the crops. This means they will most likely not leave to look for other oppurtunities. On some sharecropping plantations, the landlord could’ve given the people clothes, food, and medical services, making people completely dependent on them.

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Within just a few paragraphs on this website, we already see how Walker believes in the American Dream: "WALKER: Yes. In fact, it's happening as we speak. So many huge buildings, apartment buildings, forcing the people out. And so many, now, people living in tents - you know, so many homeless people. There are a lot of brokenhearted souls, you know, in Oakland who've lived there all their lives. I just moved there myself a couple of years ago. But I've known people who've lived there for a long time." In such a country where it is meant for people to be able to get even a minimum wage job and still make a decent for themselves.

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