Use” by Alice Walker includes a mother and her daughters Dee and Maggie who share their own thoughts about the meaning of heritage. The mother is referred as Mama and she waits outside in the yard with her younger daughter Maggie for Dee’s arrival. Mama struggles to get Dee to understand the importance of their family’s legacy. On the other hand‚ Maggie lives with Mama and is described with personality traits such as a shy young girl. When Dee arrives back home to her family Mama notices that everything
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tells about many different themes and issues in common daily life. One of the major themes in “Everyday Use” is contrasting ways of life and thinking. The narrator says that she has had a dream in which she is on a TV show with her daughter Dee and the host is congratulating her on raising such a fine girl as her daughter. Then the narrator moves from her description of her dream to bring reality to light. “In real life I am a large‚ big-boned woman with rough man-working hands” (page. 161)
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oldest daughter‚ Dee‚ visits from college and clashes with the other daughter‚ Maggie‚ over the possession of heirloom quilts. The story begins with the narrator‚ a "big-boned woman with rough‚ man-working hands" awaiting the homecoming of her daughter Dee‚ an educated woman who now lives in the city. Accompanying her is her younger daughter‚ Maggie‚ a shy girl who regards her sister with
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view both sides of how Maggie and Dee express their heritage. From the lines of the story Mama states‚" Pressed us to her with the serious way she read‚ to shove us away at just the moment‚ like dimwits...Often I fought off the temptation to shake her."(Walker 154)‚ demonstrating her negative view of Dee. From Mama’s point of view‚ Dee is yet to understand the true meaning of heritage shown by her lack of appreciation for her family. Mama grows to dislike how Dee treats her family and how she automatically
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the coming few days Maggie will get a husband‚ get married and then stay peacefully together. The story starts when Mama and Maggie are waiting for Dee who was the eldest daughter. Dee is expected to visit with her man who was to marry her. The mother wasn’t sure if they are already married or not. Dee always despised
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named Dee and Maggie. The story deals with the argument between the mother and daughter Dee about a pair of quilts Dee wants but can’t have because they were already promised to Maggie. The sisters are different in so many ways: their personalities‚ physical appearance‚ and different point of views of their heritage. As family values are so important to both Maggie and her mother than it is to Dee there is a lot confrontation. I will discuss the differences of the two sisters that drive Dee to act
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mother and her two daughters: Maggie and Dee. Walker does an excellent job illustrating her characters. There are all types of characters in this short story from round to static. Dee is a flat character‚ yet Walker uses Dee’s character to warn people of what might happen if they do not live properly. Walker describes Dee’s character as arrogant and selfish‚ and through Dee’s character one is allowed to perceive the wicked affect of an egotistical world. Dee is portrayed as a light-skinned black
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southern‚ African American family that consist of Mama‚ the story’s narrator‚ and her two daughters‚ Dee‚ the oldest‚ and her sister‚ Maggie. Set during the back to Africa movement of the early 1970’s‚ when African Americans removed their surnames or names fully and adopted new names that represented their African heritage‚ Dee leaves home for college and returns to announce the change of her name from Dee to Wangero. She collects items that Mama and Maggie uses everyday to take with her‚ and finally
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“Everyday Use” as a way to pair the materialistic false world of Dee to the reality truth found in Maggie; in doing so‚ she is able to reinforce her point that African Americans need to respect and revere their heritage and be careful not to lose sight of where they come from. Walker uses the character of Dee to parallel the world around them that seems to claim young men and women and cause them to lose sight of who they are. Dee seems very alluring and is described as having “neat-looking feet”
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written in the early 1970s by author Alice Walker‚ “Everyday Use” is about the conflict between two sisters. When Dee returns home to visit her mother and sister‚ a conflict arises involving who will keep the family quilts. The sisters grew up together and share the same mother‚ but in contrast to other children who were raised similarly‚ Dee and Maggie are complete opposites. Although Dee and Maggie both are appreciative of their culture and heritage‚ it is evident that the two differ on how they express
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