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Alice Walker

Alice Walker is an African American essayist, novelist and poet. She is described as a "black feminist."(Ten on Ten) Alice Walker tries to incorporate the concepts of her heritage that are absent into her essays; such things as how women should be independent and find their special talent or art to make their life better. Throughout Walker's essay entitled "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens," I determined there were three factors that aided Walker gain the concepts of her heritage which are through artistic ability, her foremothers and artistic models.
"In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens" touches mainly upon family heritage and the way her heritage was created. In Atwan's Ten on Ten, you will find the essay on the Mothers' Gardens. On page 83 it states, "For they were going nowhere immediate, and the future was not yet within their grasp." This quote signifies how mothers and grandmothers would always be set serving the men in their lives; for their entire lives,......

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