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    the importance of heritage through Mama‚ Maggie‚ and Dee. Mama and Maggie cherish their heritage with an accumulation of items over the years and often reminisce about the experiences they have had with their loved ones‚ but Dee has an inability to understand the true meaning of heritage. Years before‚ Dee rejected her true black heritage. She had always been negative towards Mama and her sister‚ Maggie. When their house burned down‚ Dee showed no emotion and watched it burn rather than show

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    The short story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker is about an African American mother and her two daughters. When the sisters Maggie and Dee are introduced it is noticeable that they two are complete opposites. Maggie has stayed home and is portrayed as an ignorant woman. While Dee was sent off to Augusta to receive worldly education. When Dee returns home‚ the two sisters quickly have major conflicts. The conflict that will be discussed in this paper is heritage. In the story Maggie knows little to

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    evident. When Dee arrives home to visit Mama and Maggie‚ readers can see the differences in personality between the three characters. Dee has changed her name to "Wangero" to get closer to her so-called “culture” and is collecting many objects of her past that she did not want before. On her mother’s savings for her‚ Dee is able to go to college and therefore is more educated. However‚ she uses this new knowledge to look down on Maggie and Mama. One of the many objects of her past that Dee asks for is

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    Omar Jimenez Advanced English 10 11/27/09 Everyday Use     The short story “Everyday Use”‚ by Alice walker‚ begins with a family of three: Maggie‚ Dee‚ and “Mama”(there mother). The author never reveals her actual name. However Dee being old enough to attend college leaves off to college. When she comes back from college‚ she begins to express herself in different ways‚ a way that is more liberal. By the authors description she is dressed differently‚ she talks differently‚ she even changed

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    involved in their everyday lives and everything that was involved in the lives of their ancestors. To Dee‚ the narrator’s oldest daughter‚ heritage is the past - something to frame or hang on the wall‚ a mere artistic‚ aesthetic reminder of her family history. Walker depicts Dee’s view of family heritage as being one of confusion and lack of understanding. The differences in attitude that Dee and Maggie portray about their heritage are seen early in the story. When the family’s house burned down

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    differences between Mama‚ Maggie and Dee. Walker also points out the importance of respecting your immediate heritage such as parents‚ and other family‚ and truly knowing and internalizing the real meaning of racial and cultural pride‚ from those who have gone before us. First‚ the mother affectionately called Mama describes Maggie her younger daughter. Mama tells us that Maggie has burn scars on her arms and legs from a fire at their old house. She didn’t actually say that Dee set the fire but she implied

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    The perspective of a family heritage depends on how each individual values it. In “Everyday Use‚” Alice Walker uses the narrator Mama to describe Dee and Maggie different views of their heritage. The most valued symbol that signified their heritage were quilts. These special quilts were handmade by Grandma Dee‚ Big Dee‚ and Mama. Scraps from Grandma Dee dresses along with bits and pieces of Grandpa Ezra’s uniform that he wore in the civil war is what made the quilts cherish able items. The representation

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    voice.” Mama says the words towards Dee and her past years in the house ever since she left. Dee has come back after many years‚ and she is coming back for her family’s heritage artifacts‚ that have been passed down for generations. Instead of coming back to her family‚ she only wants these items because she believes that this generation of her family is a disgrace. As Dee has come back she has actually started her own heritage and begins it like a tradition. Dee cannot see the family legacy of her

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    7/29/2012 THE SRENGTH OF " MAMA" IN ALICE WALKER ’S EVERYDAY USE Alice Walker ’s _Everyday use_ is a story about a mother and her two daughters‚ Dee and Maggie. Mama‚ the narrator‚ of the story gives us a good description of both daughters by showing their different strengths and weakness. Dee and Maggie are as different as day and night but Mama love them both. Dee the older daughter is very beautiful‚ independent‚ confident‚ and educated but she is also arrogant‚ selfish and self centered. Maggie on the

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    mother is a loving mother. In the paragraph number four‚ the mother tells the readers that she dreamed a dream that one day she and her daughter Dee brought together on a TV show and her daughter would tell the world how she was proud of her mother. The paragraph can tell us that the mother was only proud of Dee‚ not Maggie. She only dreamed that Dee would say something great about her‚ she didn’t mention anything about Maggie. So‚ one of the character of the mother was partial. The paragraph

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