Text Analysis: Everyday Use By Alicia Walker

Text A is a story called “Everyday Use”, written by Alicia Walker, where she examines the theme of heritage, through three main characters, which are a mother and her two daughters, Dee and Maggie. The author achieves this by contrasting each character’s interpretation of heritage and culture. Text B is an extract of the last scene from a movie that adopts the story of “Everyday Use”. Both Text A and B share the same theme and storyline, but deliver it in different ways.

Text A and B are similar in terms of the content and the intended message. Both texts aim to establish the theme of identity conflict and heritage. Moreover, both texts present the identical story, which is a comparison between Dee and Maggie’s outlook on the true meaning