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In Search of Our Mothers Gardens and I fill out why the C matured Bird Sings Alice baby-walker and Maya Angelou are two contemporary Afri keister-American writers. Although almost a generation apart in age, both women display a remarkable similarity in their lives. Each has written about her experiences development up in the rural South, Ms. Walker through her essays and Ms. Angelou in her autobiographies. though they share similar backgrounds, distributively has a unique style which gives to us, the readers, the put of their exquisite humanity, with all of its frailties and strengths, joys and sorrows. Tragedy struck both of these women at the age of eight. Ms. Walker lost her sight in one eye. Ms. Angelou was raped. Each draw the incident as part of a larger work. Ms. Walker related her experience in the body of an essay published in her book, In Search of Our Mothers Gardens. Ms. Angelou told her story as a chapter in her autobiography, I tell apart Why the Caged Bird Sings. Although both wrote about their traumatic experience, the way each depicted the incident was distinct and seemed to be told for very different purposes. Alice Walker reports the facts to the reader with short sentences written in the present tense. She chooses words which can a forceful emotional response from her audience. For example, in telling how her brothers were disposed BB guns and she was non, Ms. Walker writes, Because I am a girl, I do not get a gun. Instantly, I am relegated to the position of Indian. The word relegated causes the reader to be irate and indignant. Most people do not standardized being relegated to anything. Another illustration of Ms. Walkers use of dynamic words can be found in her descrip... ...e with their help. Alice Walker and Maya Angelou are both passing courageous writers. From each we receive a rare and poignant gift. As her book suggests, Alice Walker challenges us to search for resolution in the heart o f loneliness and despair. Maya Angelou, who knows why the caged bird sings, reminds us that loneliness and despair neer have the last word. She gently points us to a window of hope. both(prenominal) women bless us with shades of being human. Works Cited Angelou, Maya. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. New York Bantam, 1993. Draper, James P., ed., et al. Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 77. Detroit Gale search Inc., 1993. Walker, Alice. In Search of Our Mothers Gardens. Major Modern Essayists. Second Edition. Ed. Gilbert H. ruminator with Alan F. Crooks. Englewood Cliffs Prentice Hall, 1994. 329-337.