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    The characteristics of culture In the story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker the contrasting of the characters views and opinions‚ illustrates the importance of understanding your present life compared to your families heritage. Using careful descriptions and attitudes Walker shows the different sides of culture and heritage when she tells the story through the words of the mother (the narrator) in the story. Dee (the oldest daughter) in the story takes pictures of everything in and around her

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    I would like to share this wonderful story that I had chosen for my English class research‘s paper “Everyday use” by Alice Walker. The story of "Everyday Use” is about a single mother and her two daughters‚ Dee and Maggie. Dee is the family’s proud. She is beautiful‚ smart and educated‚ on the other hand‚ Maggie is simple‚ low confident and her skin burned severely in a house fire. The author Alice Walker uses Mama as the narrator in the "Everyday Use" to describe these two characters‚ Maggie and

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    explain the culture we have is inescapable. Maggie’s culture helps her get close to her sister‚ or just separate from her. Robert Lake’s demonstrates of how a person acts‚ show how they live‚ or how they were raised. Maggie goes through how her culture didn’t make her decisions‚ but prove that someone’s will find their true culture.Then Maggie understand that she didn’t need no physical explanation to know who she really is in her own

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    “Everyday Use” story which is written by Alice Walker. The story is about a mother and her two daughters. The mother is referred in the story as Mama and her two daughters are Dee and Maggie. Mama and Maggie live together in a traditional way while Dee has moved out and has become modernized. The story represents conflict between the characters which has rooted from their different characteristics and views regarding traditional and modern way of life. The two sisters Dee and Maggie have different characteristics

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    general. Culture can be defined as what you are‚ or like how I like to think about it‚ as your history and events you grew up in. In the short story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker a quote expressing my idea is‚” Maggie can’t appreciate these quilts!’ she said.’ She’d probably be backward enough to put them to everyday use‚” (Walker 64). This explains a story where an educated daughter separates from her culture to another‚ but still wants history from it. But she’s so far

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    going on in her mind. Portraying that she is better than her family based on appearance and being smarter as far as expressing herself better than her sister‚ not realizing that family/sisters don’t compete or look down on one another no matter the circumstances. Walker’s tone in the story sounds as the tone of someone trying to speak for Maggie. Walker knew exactly what both her daughters felt and what they were thinking‚ she was their mother and a mother knows her children well. Dee was the child

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    The short story Everyday Uses by Alice Walker has always been a favorite of mine. I remember the first time that I studied this story and how the ideas and feelings interested me. This is the reason why I chose this story. I hope that students will find it as interesting as I did. My goal for the literature circle group discussions is for students to compare and contrast the interpretations of the characters speech‚ action‚ and silence. Who talks‚ and to what effect? How does this affect the students’

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    “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker is an ethical story that shows the value of traditional identities and heritage during the African American movements in the 1960s. Walker use “Mama” a colored women as the narrator of the story to illustrate how she and her younger daughter “Maggie” live according to their traditional values is distinct than her older daughter dee who is highly educated and lives a modernized life. The conflict raises as traditional vs. modernized life since the older daughter dee

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    Am I Blue: Alice Walker

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    Am I Blue Alice Walker has been an activist for most of her life. Walker travels the world to help fight for the poor and the oppressed. She also stands for the revolutionaries who want to transform the world for the better. She is a defender of not only human rights but the rights of animals as well. In her essay “Am I Blue” she discovers the feelings of a horse named Blue. The essay is meant to show a different side of animals and show the audience the human-like traits that horses have. She compares

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    The everyday use by Alice Walker was a good story. I thought that the characters were well described. The mother trying to make honest work. Almost belittling herself on what she can do because of other people don’t do it themselves. Almost modest at some points. The daughter Maggie being shy but did what her mother told her to do. I liked the mother. The other sister Dee very selfish. Kind of thought her as not liking what her mother did for a living‚ didn’t care about the heritage. But made

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