Oprah Winfrey



Oprah Winfrey

Introduction

In today's world there is not a single person who does not know about the successful and influential woman Oprah Winfrey. Her success story has long charmed American housewives, and Oprah herself has become a symbol of the American dream. Oprah Gail Winfrey, widely recognized as just 'Oprah' was born on January 29, 1954, in the small city of Kosciusko, Mississippi. According to her, she was an unwanted child. Her mother was only eighteen years old, who was not ready for family life and the role of a caring home. She was the illegitimate child of a teenage mother, and up till 6 years of age, she lived with her grandparents in a farm setting. She was then sent to live with her mother and two siblings in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where she grew to be an unruly teenager (Krohn, 2008). From the age of nine she claimed to have been raped and sexually assaulted by her male relatives and friends of her mother's. His father, who later played a major role in the development Winfrey, for some reason currently, is not mentioned in the stories of Oprah. We only know that he was a miner, and then turned into a hairdresser. However, this will be known after a little Oprah, when she was a little older. In infancy she experienced many hardships, went in a completely torn rags, and she sometimes had nothing to eat. But despite the hardships, she was very inquisitive and agile child. In two and a half years, a little Oprah learned to speak and read, in this period her first performance took place in the Baptist church, where she delivered a speech to the congregation on "The Ascension of Jesus on Easter Sunday." Those seeing the little crumbs that are so pathetically say the Lord, melted with emotion (Krohn, 2008).

At age thirteen, a pregnant Oprah was sent to live with her father and stepmother in Nashville, Tennessee under a regimented lifestyle due to which her shining personality, academics and popularity flourished (Garson, 2011). For further studies, Oprah went to the Tennessee State University on a full scholarship. However, upon receiving a job offer from Baltimore as a reporter and co-anchor for an evening program she left college, though she was awarded a degree after she became famous years later (Garson, 2011).

Discussion

Oprah Winfrey as a child was frequently found reading poetry aloud inside church. She was a child gifted with spoken words. In her adolescent, she was a victim of juvenile behavior. This is due to the fact, that she spent her grandmother who was being brutal with her often. Once she tried to run away from her house. Her mother placed her to juvenile detention centre for some time; later, she realized it had no positive impact on her behavior. She moved Oprah Winfrey to Vernon Winfrey, her father in Tennessee. He was quite authoritarian in conducting kids, this strict conduct left an optimistic influence on Oprah's ...