The two artistic writers are also somewhat divergent in their writings and the people they refer to in their essays. Baldwin writes about the whole African American race with their endless struggle to defeat racism. Whereas Walker emphasizes on African American women’s ingenuity and how their creativity can be used to be visible by others. Although they both mention adversities in a black person’s life; Baldwin highlights the ideas of acceptance and equal power, and discusses what matters when death arrives. However, Walker focuses on the talent that black women have.
Following the death of his father, Baldwin lived on his own in New Jersey devoting time to himself. It was then that Baldwin empathized his father’s bitterness and where it originated from. He realized how African Americans are truly treated and how those mistreatments lead to violence and revulsion.…show more content… Black women were taken as slaves in North America. They were required and forced to serve upper class people. An influential person Walker mentions in her essay is Phillis Wheatley who was taken and transported to America in the 1700’s when she was only seven years of age. Phillis discovered her gift in poetry but unfortunately was never exposed or recognized for her talent. On the contrary, she was prevented from accomplishing her dream as a poet. Walkers search for understanding the significance of her mother’s garden helps to unearth the tradition for contemporary black women writers that enables their efforts to claim their lives, assert their value, and articulate their
