For the response essay‚ I have chosen “Everyday Use” story which is written by Alice Walker. The story is about a mother and her two daughters. The mother is referred in the story as Mama and her two daughters are Dee and Maggie. Mama and Maggie live together in a traditional way while Dee has moved out and has become modernized. The story represents conflict between the characters which has rooted from their different characteristics and views regarding traditional and modern way of life. The two
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Handledare: Examinator: Karlstads universitet 651 88 Karlstad Tfn 054-700 10 00 Fax 054-700 14 60 0 Information@kau.se www.kau.se VT - 11 Åke Bergvall Anna Linzie In the novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll‚ the protagonist Alice is a seven year-old girl. She falls down a rabbit-hole chasing a White Rabbit with a waistcoat and ends up in Wonderland‚ a place where logic no longer applies and animals talk. We follow her on her adventures and encounters with absurd characters
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In “Everyday Use”‚ Alice Walker’s intention of the story is to show the social conflict between Dee‚ a representation of capitalism‚ and Mama and Maggie‚ representing traditional values. The story is narrated through Mama‚ whom best represents the importance of preserving heritage. Mama is uneducated due to the school closing down in 1927; supposedly‚ the African-Americans were getting too smart to continually be oppressed by the whites. Maggie‚ the youngest child of Mama‚ is an extreme introvert
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Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton‚ 2010) The film is inspired by Lewis Carroll’s novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass‚ and What Alice Found There (1871). The nineteen-year-old Alice now returns to Wonderland from her childhood adventure‚ where she reunites with her old friends and learns her true identity: to end the Red Queen’s reign of terror‚ slay the Jabberwocky‚ a dragon-like creature controlled by the Red Queen and restore the White Queen
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The everyday use by Alice Walker was a good story. I thought that the characters were well described. The mother trying to make honest work. Almost belittling herself on what she can do because of other people don’t do it themselves. Almost modest at some points. The daughter Maggie being shy but did what her mother told her to do. I liked the mother. The other sister Dee very selfish. Kind of thought her as not liking what her mother did for a living‚ didn’t care about the heritage. But made
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begin to understand the tension and anger that exist in this new subdivision of shiny‚ new homes‚ where disorder‚ eccentricity‚ and non-conformity will not be tolerated by the upwardly mobile‚ good "people who win." Students will begin to see how Munro carefully characterizes the neighbours through their words and behaviour to reveal‚ ever so subtly‚ their beliefs and values - that the egg-lady‚ Mrs. Fullerton‚ is bringing down their property values and life-styles with her "shack‚ eyesore" of a
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had written two books and they were “Alice in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking Glass.” The character of Alice is based on a real girl‚ called Alice Liddell‚ who was one of the author ’s child-friends. Alice is the main character of the story "Alice ’s Adventures in Wonderland" and the sequel "Through the Looking Glass and what Alice found there". She is a seven-year-old English girl with lots of imagination and is fond of showing off her knowledge. Alice is polite‚ well raised and interested
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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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In the story “Everyday Use” written by Alice Walker‚ we are able to fully perceive the mother’s perspective between Maggie and Dee. We are able to see both physical and psychological differences. The mother is able to fully describe the robust and distinctive personalities between both daughters. The mother has a rather unique way to show us how each of her daughters are completely the opposite of one another. Maggie is more of a shy girl whom seems to be simple. On the other hand Dee is more outspoken
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This story takes place in Mama’s yard anticipating of Dee’s arrival. “It is like an extended living room. When the hard clay is swept clean as a floor and the sand around the edges lined with tiny‚ irregular grooves anyone can come and sit and look up into the elm tree and wait for the breezes that never come inside the house” (Walker‚ 1973‚1). Dee arrives in her rural childhood home proudly sporting "[Her hair] stands straight up like the wool on a sheep" afro coupled with a decked out fashionable
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