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Am I Blue? It is quite simple to see that the story “Am I Blue” is about a fond relationship between a horse and a woman. However, one may wonder if there is much more to the story than what the words say. In “Am I Blue,” Alice Walker conveys her high regard towards animal rights through the use of many different rhetorical devices such as description, anecdote, metaphor, personification, irony, and analogy. After analyzing …

…an uneasy, unsolved, and hostile term. Early in the story, Walker realizes that she too was raised to ignore animals. However, after this story, hope still shines. It highlights that the animals we abuse, eat, and slaughter are “beings” just like us. Walker states, “ we sat down to eat steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spat it out.” How did it ever get to be like this?