In Search Of Our Mother's Gardens By Alice Walker

Although the family is upheld as the most important unit in society, learned behavior and values within that group can be negatively and positively displayed. Conflicts on differences in attitudes may, therefore, develop among members of the family, but in times of crisis, each person within the family should be compassionate and act with decency toward each other. On reading the essay, “In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens” by Alice Walker she addresses many issues facing blacks in today’s society. In the essay “Just Walk on by” by Brent Staples he remembers his realization of being perceived as dangerous just because of his color, and how this also puts himself in danger.

Alice addresses several concerns facing blacks in today’s society she

In which a young lady get the wrong idea about him to be a mugger, leaving him with a humiliated feeling. Before long after this he recognizes that when other people consider him to be dangerous he could be victimized unjustly by being in the wrong location at the wrong time. Furthermore, Staples then moves to New York, were he records that the more populated streets decrease these conventional meetings. He recalls growing up in this neighborhood where he saw several young men as muggers get locked up, and killed, as the consequence of street violence. I Staples has always decide to be fearful and shy. In his perceptiveness it was better to be perceived in this manner. The much larger cities in which he refer to as being wrongfully labelled as destructive there were times when it was dangerous to himself. Being rumored of as a burglar or robber can convey the wrong response from individuals who hold position in authority. Staples explains that several black men has experience these behavior in our society.

Both essays are expressing the feeling of what black’s experience in society today. Walker similar to Staples explains the history of African American women in American and how their energetic innovative spirit was able to endure the dismal world filled with countless oppressive hardship. Staple’s on the other hand expresses the experiences of painful, humiliating or even impolite circumstances. He has learned to maintain his feelings which are perceived by individuals who see him as a different person. He has transformed his own ways making himself more acceptable and less intimidating to people on the