“Am I Blue” by Alice Walker (Summary)

               In the story written by Alice Walk, she is a strong advocate for animal rights. Walker uses many techniques in her writing to help the readers understand and emotionally connect to the animal’s feelings. By doing that the reader’s we will know that her message is proving that animals and human have very similar qualities. Ways that animals and humans are similar is through emotions that are shown through body expressions. Through her own experience with a horse name Blue she is able to believe and humans and animals share similar qualities. Blue is a horse that lives on a five acres land near Walker’s house. Her first impression of Blue was a beautiful creature that lived on a farm surrounded by beautiful scenery. Her relationship with the Blue started by an apple tree in her court year when she started feeding him apples, as she began to feed Blue apples she noticed how lonely and bored he must be to be in such a massive land. After Walker lived there for two years she noticed something that came into Blues life and that was another horse name Brown that became his friend and eventually Blues partner. She also noticed that when Brown first came into the farm Blue was scared to go near the horse because he had been alone for so long. But as weeks went by she saw that Blue eventually got to know Brown and they both came to by the fence near the apple tree together. Walker saw how happy how Blue was to have Brown by his side. However that happiness didn’t last long, Brown was taken away from Blue and that left him very sad and lonely again. Walker tried to feed Blue some apples but he did not come. Walker could see the sorrow in his eyes and body, which made it very difficult for Walker to look Blue in the eyes without feeling terrible. This story is very powerful because it shows a lot of emotions that we as humans battle with. As humans we get lonely and sad when we are alone and we are very happy when we have people around us. But most of all we are hurt when people are taken away from us. If we as human get hurt by separation from our loved ones… then why don’t we see the hardships that animals go through? Although they can’t talk to us it doesn’t mean they don’t have feelings. Walker believes that we must start listening to our animals and stop hurting them because we as humans don’t like to be hurt. We must give our animals the happiness that they need.