Comparing In Search of Our Mothers Gardens and I Know Why the Caged Bi

In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings   â â Alice Walker and Maya Angelou are two contemporary African-American writers.â Although just about an age separated in age, the two ladies show a wonderful closeness in their lives.â Each has expounded on her encounters experiencing childhood in the rustic South, Ms. Walker through her articles and Ms. Angelou in her autobiographies.â Though they share comparative foundations, every ha a novel style which provides for us, the perusers, the endowment of their perfect humankind, with the entirety of its frailties and qualities, delights and distresses.  Disaster struck both of these ladies at the period of eight.â Ms. Walker lost her sight in one eye.â Ms. Angelou was raped.â Each depicted the episode as a feature of a bigger work.â Ms. Walker related her involvement with the body of an article distributed in her book, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens.â Ms. Angelou disclosed to her story as a part in her collection of memoirs, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.â Although both expounded on their horrendous experience, the manner in which each delineated the occurrence was particular and appeared to be told for altogether different purposes.  Alice Walker reports the realities to the peruser with short sentences written in the present tense.â She picks words which evoke a powerful passionate reaction from her audience.â For instance, in telling how her siblings were given BB weapons and she was not, Ms. Walker expresses, Since I am a young lady, I don't get a gun.â Instantly, I am consigned to the situation of Indian.â consigned makes the peruser be furious and indignant.â Most individuals don't care for being consigned to anything.â Another representation of Ms. Walker's utilization of dynamic words can be found in her descrip... ...e with their assistance.  Alice Walker and Maya Angelou are both very gutsy writers.â From every we get an uncommon and powerful gift.â As her book recommends, Alice Walker provokes us to look for goals despite dejection and despair.â Maya Angelou, who knows why the confined winged animal sings, advises us that depression and despondency never have the last word.â She tenderly focuses us to a window of hope.â Both ladies favor 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 Research Inc., 1993. Walker, Alice.â In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens. Major Modern Essayists. Second Edition.â Ed. Gilbert H. Muller with Alan F. Crooks.â Englewood Cliffs:â Prentice Hall, 1994. 329-337. Â