Impact Of Women Education Assignment

Running Head: WOMEN EDUCTION
Women Education
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WOMEN EDUCATION1
The paper seeks to analyze critically the works of Alice walker and Maya Angelo,
two prominent figure, Maya Angelo and Alice Walker, who had sought to fight for the rights
of the women not on the basis of the gender discrimination but also on the ground of the
racial discrimination. As such, their victimization happened on two different level. However,
the particular concern of the essay would revolve around the line of the education and thereby
seek to determine how it has evolved in the course of different movement.
Alice Walker, while she was speaking about the education claimed that black women
never had the chance or the privilege of acquiring education in her life. She had imposed the
blame that prevented her characters from availing the education on their colored identity
(Angelou, 1997). This is evident as she voices in the wording of Maggie that ‘I am a large,
big-boned woman with rough, man-working hands’. In her work, How a caged bird Sings
depicts the life of Maya through a series of autobiographical narratives. In her work, she had
narrated a considerable portion of her life where she had depicted the traumatic experience of
her life that had shunned down her spirit for quite some time. It was through the intervention
of Mrs. Flowers who made her realize the importance of education and spoken words. The
wordings of the Maggie in ‘Everyday Use’ by Alice walker also reflects the implication of
the education and how their gender base as well as their racial identity prevented them from
having an easy access to it (Walker, 2004).
The character of Alice Walker clearly voices her disparity at not being able to have a
complete access to education. She blamed her status of being a colored person as well as a
woman behind it. On the other hand Maya Angelo was denied formal education for a
considerable period of time though time again the reader would find her voicing that she had
a general bend towards learning and would love to keep herself engrossed in studies. Such
examples of the authors discussed in this respect elucidates in front of us how ‘formal
education’ had turned out to be a matter of privilege for them. There has been a play of