Everyday Use Thesis
Introduction
Topic Sentence: Conflict is considered to be an all pervasive human phenomena which can easily penetrate all forms of social relationships with various cultural groups and ethnic communities (Ting Toomey et al. 47). Movement from intergroup conflicts to interpersonal friction → evident from the conflicting encounters between the Johnson family – parallels between the family and the African-American community at large. Everyday Use is a short story depicting the harmonies and conflicts that characterize the African- American culture.
Thesis Statement: Walker highlights the cultural issues within the African American community through the use of symbolism and characterization, eventually showing that culture and heritage are a part …show more content…
Evidence: Dee values family culture and tradition more as aesthetics than as objects for everyday use. When Dee's mother shows her the quilt she is planning to give to Maggie as a wedding gift, Dee is horrified
“But they’re priceless!” she was saying now, furiously; for she has a temper. “Maggie would put them on the bed and in five years they’d be in rags. Less than that!” (Walker 59).
Dee's mother is forced to recall how Dee had called the same quilt tasteless and old fashioned when she had offered it to her while going to college.
Supporting ideas: Dee is callous about her disregard for her family's culture. She is stylish and therefore seeks to distance herself from any of her African-American heritage (Korenman). Her mother attempts to be supportive of her decisions, despite her reservations, and uses hybridized combinations of both her names, but feels conflicted doing so (Cowart). Dee's desire to use the quilt as an aesthetic object of cultural value, is largely a choice of fashionable politics, and the mother finally understands that of her educated and uneducated children, the latter, with her own culture was better suited to respect a family
Topic Sentence: Conflict is considered to be an all pervasive human phenomena which can easily penetrate all forms of social relationships with various cultural groups and ethnic communities (Ting Toomey et al. 47). Movement from intergroup conflicts to interpersonal friction → evident from the conflicting encounters between the Johnson family – parallels between the family and the African-American community at large. Everyday Use is a short story depicting the harmonies and conflicts that characterize the African- American culture.
Thesis Statement: Walker highlights the cultural issues within the African American community through the use of symbolism and characterization, eventually showing that culture and heritage are a part …show more content…
Evidence: Dee values family culture and tradition more as aesthetics than as objects for everyday use. When Dee's mother shows her the quilt she is planning to give to Maggie as a wedding gift, Dee is horrified
“But they’re priceless!” she was saying now, furiously; for she has a temper. “Maggie would put them on the bed and in five years they’d be in rags. Less than that!” (Walker 59).
Dee's mother is forced to recall how Dee had called the same quilt tasteless and old fashioned when she had offered it to her while going to college.
Supporting ideas: Dee is callous about her disregard for her family's culture. She is stylish and therefore seeks to distance herself from any of her African-American heritage (Korenman). Her mother attempts to be supportive of her decisions, despite her reservations, and uses hybridized combinations of both her names, but feels conflicted doing so (Cowart). Dee's desire to use the quilt as an aesthetic object of cultural value, is largely a choice of fashionable politics, and the mother finally understands that of her educated and uneducated children, the latter, with her own culture was better suited to respect a family