In this book Alice Walker, she takes us on a journey of her life experiences while using her profound love for animals as a lens of observation. The Georgia born Pulitzer Prize winner uses deep metaphors and symbolisms to deliver a unique yet playful approach to her understanding of some of life’s greatest mysteries. Her “Chicken Chronicles” are a remarkable way the author choses to relive and retell her life story. Walker’s love for chickens extends beyond mere husbandry and develops into a lifelong relationship in which she often refers to them as her children. “I called out to them, as I do: Hi Girls, it’s Mommy” (Walker, 2011) she freely writes without care of what anyone thinks of her somewhat strange infatuation with her chickens. Her memoirs are filled with subtle explanations of life’s most misunderstood concepts. She deconstructs, love, loss, family, …show more content…
Her family background and experiences led her to be the strong-minded individual she is today. She retains a genuine attachment to her culture and her upbringing which did not depart from her even as an adult today. In the recently aired PBS documentary Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth detailing Walker’s life experiences, she powerfully illustrates her connection to her ancestry by revealing why she retained her maiden name by saying “My great-great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia, which passes for the Walker’s ancestral home with two babies on her hips. She lives to be a hundred and twenty-five years old, and my own father knew her as a boy. It is in memory of this walk that I choose to keep and to embrace my maiden name, Walker” (Walker, 2014). This powerful symbol resonates through Walker’s persona and the strong characters in her works. Most popular known for her Pulitzer Prize winning play: The Color Purple, she went on to further define herself as a poet, a writer, and an activist as a citizen of the