Compare and Contrast

The two stories “In the Canon, For All the Wrong Reasons” by Amy Tan and “The Black Writer and the Southern Experience” by Alice Walker were stories that I thought connected to each other very well. But, they also were different in a few ways too. I will compare and contrast these two stories in the following paper.
Both writers came from a very tough child hood judging by what they wrote about. Amy Tan grew up having to deal with the deaths of her father and her brother. After that her mom was always talking about killing herself. Alice Walker had a tough childhood also. While not having to deal with deaths in her family she grew up in a very poor neighborhood dealing with being looked down on and not given the same opportunities as the white children around her. She gives and example of this in her story when she says that her mom went to town to get flower from the Red Cross. She wa...