Alice Walker Blog #5

Prompt: How is Alice Walker's take on the importance of writing different or (exclusive or) same to that of Tobias Wolff's take on it? (150 words)

          Alice's Walker's take on the importance of writing is the same to the take that Tobias Wolff has. Actually, maybe not the same, but similar. The difference is that Alice Walker goes more in depth into it, and explains more of her reasonings behind her position, and a solution or exit plan. They both agree in terms, that even though some writing's are hard to read, and may not be the most excited or up-beat piece of literature, readers need to accept that it's a harsh topic they're reading about, and count it as a gained experience. They both say that readers really need to reflect on what they're reading, instead of just simply reading it, and moving on after they are finished. In the video, Alice Walker goes on to say that these types of writing, that are hard to talk about, lead to a "good conversation". She says that a good conversation is when people really are listening to each other, instead of just hearing one another. So continuing from that, she goes on to say that, because feel as though they aren't being heard, they talk louder and louder, until they feel satisfied that the person they are talking to, is listening to them. She says that everyone just loves to talk and talk about just unimportant matters in the world, the sense of actually having a good conversation, is slowly disappearing. I'm sure Tobias Wolff was thinking the same things, just Alice got further into it.