My Mother Pieced Quilts Analysis

How does your culture influence the way you look at the world and others? A person’s culture always influences the way they see the world and others. The Literary texts “My mother pieced quilts” by Teresa Paloma Acosto, the short story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker and the letter “An Indian Fathers Plea” by Robert Lee. Each of these Literary Works show how a person’s culture is always effects the way a person looks at the world or other people. The poem “My Mother Pieced Quilts” by Teresa Paloma Acosto was a literary work that showed that peoples culture always effects the way a person looks at the world and others. The quote “Sewn hard and taut to withstand the thrashings of twenty-five years stretched out they lay armed ready shouting
The quilts were made by the authors mother and they made the author feel safe like anything was possible. This quote is connected to the poem because it shows how when she was growing up she counted on theses quilts and used them against the thrashing of the worlds words action and anything else that it could throw at her. Another quote that can be used is “They were meant as covers in the winter as weapons.” In the winters these quilts physically covered and protected them when they used them against the cold but, these quilts also figuratively protected the author and her siblings from the thing that world brings. The poem “My Mother Pieced Quilts” supports my claim because the quilts that were made by the Authors mother for the author and her siblings were made so that they were literally and figuratively protected from the world no matter how they saw the world they knew that the quilts