Alice Walkers In Search of Our Mothers Gardens and Virginia Woolfs A

Alice footers In count of Our Mothers Gardens and Virginia Woolfs A Room of Ones Own It is interesting to contrast the points of view of Alice Walker and Virgina Woolf on the same subject.These writers display how versatile the English language sess be. Alice Walker was born in 1944 as a farm girl in Georgia. Virginia Woolf was born in London in1882. They brace both come to be highly recognized writers of their time, and they both have rather large portfolios of work. The scenes they might have grown up seeing and living through may have greatly influenced their views of subjects which they both seem to write about. In her essay In Search of Our Mothers Gardens, Alice Walker speaks first about the untouchable religious belief of the black women of the post-Reconstruction South. She speaks highly of the faith and undying hope of these women and their families. She even comes to recognize them as saints as she describes their faith as so intense, deep, unconscious, the they themse lves were unaware of the richness they held (Walker 694). In a passage in which she speaks about the treatment and social status of the women of the sixteenth century, Woolf explains that a muliebrity who might have had a truly great gift in this time would have surely gone crazy, shot herself, or ended up in some lonely cottage on the outside of town, half witch, half wizard, feared and mocked (Woolf 749). Her use of some of these powerful nominative shows that she feels strongly about what she is writing. to a fault for her, life growing up and stories she may have heard may have influenced this passage greatly. In her passage she imagines what it may have been like had William Shakespeare had a sister. She notices how difficult it would be even given... ...the first person and imagine the South very easily because of how descriptive she is in her narration. The reader of Woolfs essay clearly can understand and come to realize the unfairness and downright cruelty of the pure neg lect of hidden talent among many women throughout time. She does this through simply copulation a good story. This perhaps shows that Virginia Woolf may have been fond of Walkers work. Woolf chooses to clearly state and agree with the same points Walker makes and shows the ideas in a different light source because indeed she is a different person with different attributes. This shows up dominantly in her rewriting of Walkers In Search of Our Mothers Gardens. Works CitedWalker, Alice. In Search of Our Mothers Gardens. New York Harcourt arouse Javanovich, 1983.Woolf, Virginia. A Room of Ones Own. San Diego, Calif. Harvest-HBJ, 1989.