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    best for you. In Alice Walkers “ Everyday Use” the family faces several conflicts within each other. This story focuses on lack of communication and relationships. Their issues aren’t rare because my family has a set of their own to. The family of “ Everyday Use” and my family have a lot of similarities and differences regarding personally‚ parenting‚ and heritage. Personality is a huge part part of live‚ thats how people connect and describe you. In “Everyday Use” Dee seems very stuck up in the

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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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    old woman that isolates herself from the real world trying to preserve the old and shelter it from the new. Furthermore‚ another story that is influenced by this theme of the young world not understanding the ways of the old. Is the short story “Everyday Use” a story about a girl that doesn’t understand the importance of the traditional meaning of the quilts that she has inherited.

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    Two Different Sides of the Same Coin The preservation of one’s cultural history is something that everyone must decide how to handle. In the short story Everyday Use by Alice Walker‚ two characters have different ways of preserving their history and culture. Dee and Maggie‚ sisters‚ have different personalities‚ motivations‚ and views on society. This may seem unusual considering they grew up in the same house‚ and they were raised by the same person; one might compare these girls to two different

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    Everyday Use” In “Everyday Use”‚ author‚ Alice Walker uses the backdrop of a small town family using characters Maggie and Dee and Mama to symbolize the dynamics of the greater African American color‚ educational and class struggle in America. She uses the family because it is an institution that every reader can identify with. This is a story of what it really means to “make it” in the Black family and Black community. Mama typifies the single parent who is functioning in the dual role of

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    dance their own steps together at the Pan-Pacific Grand Pix. In the documentary ‘Absolutely Ballroom’‚ many techniques are used to entice the audience to continue to watch their presentation of reality television. The first aspect is the songs they use. To be truly effective‚ as this documentary

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    The differences in the role of child are expressed in the short story‚ "Everyday Use: For Your Grandma" by Alice Walker. Dee‚ the older daughter‚ represents a materialistic and modern way of life where culture and heritage are valued only for their trendiness. Raised by her mother in a traditional and simple manner‚ Maggie is a docile and weak girl. Her character serves the purpose of presenting the distinct standpoints towards culture between her and her sister. The role distinctions are found

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    Semester Take Home Test : Everyday Use Auliya Atika F. Auliya Atika F. Mr. Gindho Rizano M.Hum Prose II May 24‚ 2012 Final Task Examination The Educational and Race Issue in Everyday Use Everyday Use is a part of the short story collection In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Woman (1973) by Alice Walker (Wikipedia). Alice Walker is an African – American blooded who often made issues about African – American itself mostly in her works . Everyday Use is one of her outstanding

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    Literary Research Paper of “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker In the short story‚ “Everyday Use” Walker addresses the conflict with cultural and personal issues within family heritage. Mama‚ Maggie‚ and Dee are the main characters within the story. They each have their own point of view and this evokes conflict amongst them. The story centers around the symbol of legacy exemplified through the “quilt”. Walker uses her own personal history and life struggles and intertwines them into the story through

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    Generally‚ mothers and daughters are bound together tightly and cannot be severed. Sometimes‚ however‚ can create a serious conflict between the generations‚ whether the daughters who accept the new culture or the mothers who deeply rooted in the traditional concept can lead the spiritual discordance to their relationship. In the story Everyday Use wrote by Alice Walker‚ the story is lead by “mama” who is a black woman has two daughters Dee and Maggie. Dee had better education‚ yet full of confidence

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