Alice Walker by Abi Gutleben https://padlet.com/Gutleben593/i3rai5bbwza0 a descriptive piece on the author of 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker en-us 2018-05-29 15:36:14 UTC 2023-06-11 19:46:23 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Pictureland.png Gutleben593 https://padlet.com/Gutleben593/i3rai5bbwza0/wish/264315646 Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia in 1944. (Deep South region)]]> 2018-05-29 16:57:00 UTC https://padlet.com/Gutleben593/i3rai5bbwza0/wish/264315646 Gutleben593 https://padlet.com/Gutleben593/i3rai5bbwza0/wish/264374546 Born into a sharecropper family.]]> 2018-05-29 21:18:53 UTC https://padlet.com/Gutleben593/i3rai5bbwza0/wish/264374546 Gutleben593 https://padlet.com/Gutleben593/i3rai5bbwza0/wish/264374737 Married a Jewish civil rights lawyer in 1967, gave birth to a biracial child in the midst of heightening racil tensions.]]> 2018-05-29 21:20:06 UTC https://padlet.com/Gutleben593/i3rai5bbwza0/wish/264374737 Gutleben593 https://padlet.com/Gutleben593/i3rai5bbwza0/wish/264374919 Walkler published The Color Purple in 1982, and became a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1982, as well as the first black woman to win the National Book Award. The novel has themes of romantic and familial love-- another novel that emphasizes the importance of family and heritage.]]> 2018-05-29 21:21:30 UTC https://padlet.com/Gutleben593/i3rai5bbwza0/wish/264374919 Gutleben593 https://padlet.com/Gutleben593/i3rai5bbwza0/wish/264384155 As a child, Alice was blinded in one eye by a BB gun pellet from one of her brothers; she never told of the incident, and it perhaps fueled the theme(s) of sibling rivalry found in "Everyday Use".]]> 2018-05-29 22:48:28 UTC https://padlet.com/Gutleben593/i3rai5bbwza0/wish/264384155 "The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men." Gutleben593 https://padlet.com/Gutleben593/i3rai5bbwza0/wish/264384712 2018-05-29 22:54:56 UTC https://padlet.com/Gutleben593/i3rai5bbwza0/wish/264384712 Gutleben593 https://padlet.com/Gutleben593/i3rai5bbwza0/wish/264397257 Alice worked in the Deep South during the Civil Rights Era to earn voting rights for disenfranchised African Americans, and took part in the 1963 March on Washington.]]> 2018-05-30 00:32:29 UTC https://padlet.com/Gutleben593/i3rai5bbwza0/wish/264397257 Alice Walker reading "Ain't I a Woman" by Sojourner Truth, 2006 Gutleben593 https://padlet.com/Gutleben593/i3rai5bbwza0/wish/264397685 2018-05-30 00:36:20 UTC https://padlet.com/Gutleben593/i3rai5bbwza0/wish/264397685