Everyday Use By Alice Walker

Everyday Family

Blood is never thicker than water, Meaning even though people aren't blood related they can still be a family. Family i believe means sticking together and helping one another when times are rough, People may have great families and others may not. Even though some people don't grow up with a great family doesn't mean that they cant find a family, Everyone has a chance at happiness with a family weither they make their own or they find their own. I picked Alice Walker’s story “Everyday Use” because both Mama, Dee and Maggie share Similarities and Differences with my family when it comes to Relationships in the Family, Sibling relationships and a Shaky family foundation.

But all families have either serious or small problems.
But in the story “Everyday Use” The oldest daughter Dee is a very smart and beautiful woman, But as she comes back from college, she changes into a self centered woman who just wants to use her families quilts and other things to put on display, My relationships In my family is a little good and a little bad. With my Mother and I we have a strong relationship, Much stronger than Maggie and Mama’s relationship. But it wasn't always as strong as it is now, When I was younger, my Mother had gotten sick with cancer and had to stay in bed for long periods of time. She would always lash out at my brothers and myself whenever she couldn't find anything or didn't get her way, I would always try to calm her down or try to do something with her. But after a couple years of her treatment we began to get a little closer and start doing a lot of things together, The relationship with my Father isn't a very good one at all. In the story
I have also had that problem of Jealousy with my sister and other siblings, Before we moved to South Carolina My mother,Brothers and Sister and I lived in Kentucky. It was honestly terrible living there for three years, I was always bullied in elementary school, my brothers would constantly get into fights because my Mother was sick. And my Sister would keep telling us all to do things and try to scare me all the time, None of us had any good relationship at all. My oldest brother would always try to stick up for me, but my Mother would always yell at him for it, My other brother would always yell at me and hit me for no reason. My sister and I would fight over who got the one bathroom and our clothes, My brothers also got into a lot of trouble when we used to live in Kentucky. Sneaking out,partying, basically what normal teenagers got in trouble for. As we finally moved here things got slightly better, But only slightly me and my sister would still fight, but my brothers would back me up on it. It’s always good to keep in contact and have respect for your siblings or they might get taken away from you too