Adam Baker Smith December 20, 2000 ENG 243 In order to start this paper; I would like to explain why I have chosen Alice Walker as the author to write about. Through my own life experience I too have felt the pains prejudice. As a child I attended catholic schools as a means of education. Through the years from sixth grade to half of seventh I attended a private school in providence called Holy Name. There were only …showed first 75 words of 1395 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1395 total…Bausch, Richard, The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction sixth edition, W.W. Norton Company, New York, London copyright 2000 p.1555-1561 2. http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/alicew/ 3. Selzer, Linda teaches at the Pennsylvania State University, where she is a member of the American literature, African American literature, and American Studies programs. 4. http://www.sistahspace.com/sistory/writers/walker/race.html 5. Shapard, Robert and James Thomas, Sudden Fiction, W.W. Norton Company, New York, London p.35-36