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“In Search of Understanding” In Alice Walker’s essay, “In Search of Our Mothers’ Garden,” she creates a very unique perspective on women’s rights in the early 1960’s. Being a black woman during this decade was very difficult considering the biases that society lived by. Alice Walker explores these difficulties, and ultimately aims to make the reader understand how black women were not given equal opportunities. For this reason, many African American women were never able to demonstrate their talents and ideas. Walker begins her story extremely deep in thought and very strong on spirituality. By the way Walker describes the opening, it makes you believe that women, in some way, were just worthless. In these opening paragraphs, on the exterior, it appears that Walker is denouncing women of this time period. She explains women’s insignificant role in society, and she refers to them as “sexual objects” (Walker 740). She goes on to say that because of their insignificance in the community, they were considered “Saints” (Walker 740).
Approximate Word count = 594
Approximate Pages = 2.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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