For this week’s one-hour participation credit, read “Childhood” by Alice Walker (Models for Writers page 222) and write a one-paragraph response to the essay. What is Walker’s main idea, and how does she present it? Do you agree with what she has to say? Do you have a similar experience or outlook?
Post your response here as a comment by 5pm Friday, October 3o, to earn this week’s one-hour participation credit.
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The essay is breaking down how much the value of memorable moments are important and well valued. She wants to give her daughter the same kind of value and apperciation toward the things that are important to her such as her garden, and explains how it grows and what nature looks like. I think this essay brings peoples memory back to the grace of memory, and the value of love and kindness. When i was young i remember a time when my mom took me shopping and showed me how i can make my money last and how to spend it, while still getting the important things i need, to this day it helps me.
In this essay it describes how much memories are valued to people and families. She wants to give her daughter all the memories that she had example her garden. She gave excellent details on how plants grow and how nature changes to create these images in our heads. In my opinion this helps people bring back memories that many of us forgotten them. The warmth, happiness, smiles, of each memory that we hold dear to us. I remembered when I was younger maybe six or seven years old, it was our winter break and all five of us made gingerbread cookies and we had to make a gingerbread house. We all had a lot of fun on that day, we made a mess but we had fun.
Walker’s main idea presents itself as childhood memories. The present day is a tool for remembering the past. I reall agree with her idea that things in the present day remind us of the things that we have done in the past. The good memories that we have today were created in the past. Walker had the memory of her childhood, and she was reminded of this because of what she did in the present day. I can agree with this idea of remembering the past because of what I do today. When I was 13, I got my first guitar for my birthday. To this day, I still play that beautiful red and black guitar. As a musician, my guitar brings back many memories that I had with my brother.
In Walker’s essay, Childhood, she clearly presents her memories, both new and old, about her experiences with her family and how she values and cherishes them deeply. She presents this by telling how she shared the same experiences with her daughter, almost if not alike, in the same way as she did when she was younger. Yes I can agree with her very much so becauseI cherish my family more than anything. I can remember a time when my mom and I went to a grocery store, and the simple actions of picking out groceries was new to me. I didn’t know what she was doing and she could tell I was very confused. Once she taught me what she was doing, I applied that same type of knowledge of how I should pick things that are good for my life today.
This story is about how important a garden can mean to a person, how hard it maght be to handle a change, in her case it was going to the city where there arnt gardens well im sure that there is but just not her garden. i do agree with her story very much because your family is the best thing that a persone can have. because in most cases they will always bethere for you no matter what you do. just reading how they had watermellon on the “spot” made my mouth water.
The essay Childhood, by Alice Walker, She Describes her memories and shows how important memories could be, and if you have one like she did It will be a big part of your life. You will never forget it and things you do in the present will probably be related to them. She presents her idea by saying how she grew up around farming because her family were farmers. She tells about how amused she was when she saw how the process of farming works! and it reminded her of it when she introduced her daughter the same thing. She was amused as well. I agree with what she says because i remember when i was first learning how to ride a bike and how many times i fell trying. and now every time i get on a bike i remember all the funny falls i had trying to ride my bike.
i think her main idea is her fasenation with planting foods a variety of foods and wants to show her daughter everything she knows. when she seen the excitement in her daughters eyes it lifted her spirits and encouraged her to tell more about her experiences. she presented her main point very well and made it very clear. yes i do agree with her.although i dont have any personal experience with planting any types of food it sure does seem like a fun thing to do with my children.
Her story is about the memories and time she had when she was younger and growing up on a farm where the way of living was much better than that of the city even with the hardships that come along with living in the country. She presents this by recalling to her daughter about the way harvest time was when she was just three years old. And all the fun times they had,especially when it came to watermelons. I agree with the author in the fact that time spent with family members at a young age builds a certain type of character that just cannot be obtained with living in a city. Yet unfortunately I was never raised in the country but I did spend a considerable amount of time in the mountains with family members camping, hiking, fishing and other outdoor activities. Which I would say is a form of family time where experiences and memories are created.
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