In Search of Our Mothers Gardens and Seventeen Syllables

Walker describes how women are sometimes forced into having children, and these children hinder her ability to have the time to do what she really enjoys, what lurks in her soul. Having children was more of a job, almost like a dog having a litter of puppies, only to be sold to other families with no knowledge of what happened to th

em (57). Children were also the product of women who were just looking for love, and got children out of the act of love (60). She describes how slave women were forced to work for unappreciative white overseers when they would much rather have spent their time painting (57). How, she questions, if these women were unable to express their creative spirit, was it passed down from generation to generation from mother to daughter. One answer might be found in an example give on page 62. An

Some topics in this essay:
African American, Hisaye Yamamoto, rosie’s mother, , Alice Walker, walker describes, black woman, express creative, express themselves, keeping touch, eventually lead, rosie’s father,