Alice Walker
In order to start this paper; I would like to explain why I have chosen Alice Walker as the author to write about. Through my own life experience I too have felt the pains prejudice. As a child I attended catholic schools as a means of education. Through the years from sixth grade to half of seventh I attended a private school in providence called Holy Name. There were only four white students in the entire school. That is including my brother and me. There was another white teenager in my brother's class and another white child in the fist grade. At that time, I was recently coming from another private school that was in Cranston and the general family income of those students was much higher than the income of the families at Holy Name. This was quite a change. When I first got there it was difficult to make friends. I was made fun of for being so "pale" and was called names like "ghost". I can remember one particular incident when I was sitting in the middle of the classroom and the teacher left the room. All the students began to throw crayons, pens, pencils, and markers at me. Even though they hurt I just sat there and didn't say anything or even move. I nev
5. Shapard, Robert and James Thomas, Sudden Fiction, W.W. Norton Company, New York, London p.35-36 It seemed that the skull that she had stumbled upon belong to someone who had been beaten. "Her heel had become lodged in the broken ridge between brow and nose, and she reached down quickly, unafraid, to free herself" (Walker 35). "... Myop saw that he had large white teeth, all of them cracked and broken..."(Walker 35).
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Approximate Word count = 1432
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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