Mallory Pazdersky Period-2 Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944. She was the eighth and last child of Willie Walker and Minnie Grant, two sharecroppers in Eatonton, Georgia. Her parents' experiences with the oppressive sharecropping system and the bitter racism of Southern whites greatly influenced her writing. Her first novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, deals with the struggles of black sharecroppers in the racist South. When Walker was eight, one of her brothers accidentally …showed first 75 words of 420 total…

…showed last 75 words of 420 total…tell people that you can progress from anything that happens to you. The people that don’t progress, in this case, would be the ones that don’t try to and maybe don’t want to be accepted or they feel no one wants them to be. Alice Walker, is among many of who have come through discrimination, and progressed through a lot in her life to be where she in now. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** aol