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    'Am I Blue?' by Alice Walker

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    The banning of Walker's work in California is the subject of this paper that consists of three pages.

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    will examine, Am I Blue. BBawlkrb.doc ALICE WALKER: Am I Blue Written by B. Bryan Babcock for the Paperstore,  Inc., November 2000 Introduction In literature or the arts we used to hear of something being "banned in Boston," supposedly one of our more "ethical" appreciators of good  taste. Can you think what it must be liked, in current times, to be banned in California? That happened to the work of Walkers we will examine,  Am I Blue. The Writer Alice Walker is well known as a writer and an activist; in order to get credit for both of those, it is necessary to be  a thinker. Not just the "I think I will go shopping to day," type of thinking, but a "I wonder why this is the way it is" type of  thinking. That is what she does "out loud" in this essay. An essay usually has to have a beginning, middle, and end like any other written work,  but the thesis statement is not always obvious, certainly not as one begins reading, and often there is no real closure, or a place like the ones we as children  used to scrawl after our stories, marked, "the end." This is true in the "thinking piece," Am I Blue. It is important for the student to note, that creativity  or thoughtfulness is not always about following the rules. It may not be about breaking them either, but it is helpful to ask yourself if the author followed  a certain pattern, if so what do you think it is and why do you think so; if there does not seem to be a pattern in the writing, it 

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