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    In “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker‚ a family of three women stand in their lawn watching smoke tumble out from where their windows used to be and study their shingles as they disintegrate. The youngest woman‚ Maggie‚ has the most traumatic experience of the three: she was caught in the fire and was severely burned and scarred. The image of her daughter suffering was burned into her mind. The mother was affected by this and also by how her other daughter‚ Dee‚ reacted to this. Dee was content with

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    support of her close knit family. The nurture that Walker received as a child built her confidence so high that no one could bring it down! (At least that is what she thought.) Alice Walker was tormented as a child from the age of

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    THE COLOR PURPLE ALICE WALKER First published in 1982. To the Spirit: Without whose assistance Neither this book Nor I Would have been Written. Show me how to do like you Show me how to do it. Stevie Wonder You better not never tell nobody but God. It’d kill your mammy. Dear God‚ I am fourteen years old. I-aa I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me. Last spring after little Lucious come I heard them fussing. He was pulling on her arm. She

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    Alice Walker’s The Color Purple) Alice Walker once said‚ “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” In her novel The Color Purple‚ Alice Walker shows a theme of powerlessness‚ until the very end‚ where the protagonist prevails. Throughout the story‚ the reader experiences multiple plot twists and emotional scenes. Alice Walker shows three predominant themes in her story The Color Purple. The first message Alice Walker sends through The Color Purple‚ is one

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    In the article "Young people’s mental health: the spiritual power of fairy stories‚ myths and legends" Steven Walker correlates the main ideas and concepts on fairy tales to the building of healthy physiological children and young adults. He starts the article off by telling the story of the Greek legend of Oedipus that where a King and his wife are prophesized as having a child that will grow up and kill his father and marry his mother. In an effort to derail the prophecy they pierce the child’s

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    really become a global issue. Mary Edwards Walker was a women’s right activist and several other things including‚ a nurse and later a surgeon in the Civil War‚ a writer‚ an abolitionist and a feminist. During her lifetime‚ she accomplished many extraordinary achievements‚ including being awarded The Congressional Medal of Honor for her service during the war. She was the first and only woman as of 2015 to have been awarded this Medal of Honor. Mary Edwards Walker was born on November 26th‚ 1832 and raised

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    The legend of Sleepy Hollow are not evil‚ Irving makes them petty and have no true roles within the piece. He sends the message that women do not belong anywhere except for in the home. Irving further strengthens this message in The Devil and Tom Walker. Tom’s wife leaves the house twice‚ the first time she fails to communicate with the devil‚ the second time she loses all their valuables and dies. In the story it has a positive effect on Tom but it shows that Irving thinks women are powerless and

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    understanding of who you are. It apart of your DNA. In the short story‚ “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker‚ the author is telling a story inside of a story by using symbolism‚ irony‚ and characterization to show the importance of family heritage. It plays a big role in African American culture and she use the three main characters Maggie‚ Dee‚ and Mama to help get her point across. X x xx x x x x x x Alice Walker uses the quilt to symbolize family heritage. The grandmother made the quilt by hand with several

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    A well-educated black man‚ with dreams of making it in the world‚ is What Jerald Walker was determined to do. Walker had grown up in a community where opinions about “whites” were shared by everyone. Whites discriminated against black people and anything that was believed as bad by black people‚ was blamed on the white people. In order to succeed‚ Walker would have to “Be” like his brother Clyde. Clyde did not fit the “stereotype”‚ of a regular black man. His brother said things like‚ “whites aren’t

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    2. In “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker‚ Maggie and her mother’s relationship is depicted as tight-knit. This can be interpreted throughout the story because Mama describes how they spend the majority of their time together. An example of this is when Mama says‚ “Maggie will marry John Thomas… then I’ll be free to sit here and I guess just sing church songs by myself”‚ implying that they normally sing together. Mama also predicts Maggie’s actions. She predicts how Maggie will “be nervous until her sister

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