Assingments of Week XIII

In Search of our Mother's Garden, by Alice Walker

It really hurts to imagine how black women underwent a life filled with opression,discrimination and only them and god knows how many other things, made them feel unworthy.They faced a double opression that of a female and of a black female,although for some of them it didn't stop their potential and creativity even if they didn't really know they had. Often in the darkest times humans tend to create art,and that happened with the black women.Their creativity resulted from these dark times,but what of those who didn't even know they had such a potential or were afraid their potential may explode from time to time or what about those women who didn't even had time to display their creativity and art ? They found ways to display it in everydays life just like as Alice's mother displayed her creativity with flowers , while some others diplayed their creativity on the sly or anonymously.Art was the only place they found peace and tranquility and every black women of those times is considered an artist in her own way and that's the main idea in Walker's essays of In Search of our Mather's Garden.

The Bluest Eye , by Toni Morrison

I guess we all have felt disliked or rejected in diffirent periods of life mostly as teenagers but with the help of our family who learned us to value ourselves and inspired us or with the support of real friends we manage to overcome such situations.These are crucial in someone's development and shape, but what of those who never received  appreciation, love or whose families never inspired or boosted their children's self -esteem and appreciation  and I'm refering to the most vulnerable delicate member of a society ,a child and a female.This lack of upbringing can result to fatal consequences to a child but also to a female whose image is always expected to be ultimate.In this book we have the concrete individ a black girl named  Pecola who never felt loved or beautiful and who perceived beauty with whiteness and blue eyes.She thought that everything bad that happened in her life was a consequence of her physical apperence.She believed that so badly that she even went crazy and believed she really had blue eyes in the end .It seems that madness was her only escape. As readers we might feel pitty for Pecola but the truth is that in the real world there are thousand of girls like her maybe not with the same background but with the same  wrong perception of the beauty and we all have to take a stand by helping to change the societies ideals but also to give a little contribution into changing these people's insecurities by staying near them and learning to value themselves.