Everyday use
Everyday Use
The author used "Everyday Use" as the title because at the end of the story when Dee said, "Maggie would put them on the bed and in five hears they'd be in rags." she was complaining that Maggie would use the quilt everyday and it would get ruined but the mom however still gives it to Maggie because she promised her and she wants it to be used everyday instead of using it as decorations. Also Mama is tired that Dee always gets what she wants and treats her and her sister with disrespect all the time. So to me it was a good choice as a title because it's a way to value the past and keep it alive.
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A.) "She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that "no" is a word the world never learned to say to her." It's an idiom because held life in the palm of one hand really means she can pretty much do whatever she wants it doesn't really mean you hold your life in your hand. It's also personification because it's give the world human characteristics by never telling her no cause really the world can't talk.
Denotation and connotation is that Dee never gets told no and always get what she wants
It makes it effective because can you can see the true personality of Dee a lot better and it makes it a lot more powerful rather then if it just said Dee always gets what she wants.
B.) "Have you ever seen a lame animal, perhaps a dog run over by some careless person rich enough to own a car......that's is how my Maggie walks."
This is a metaphor because she is comparing Maggie to a lame dog that has been ran over.
Denotation is that Maggie walks like a dog that has been ran over. Connotation is that Maggie walks like a small poor little girl who feels like she doesn't belong in the world.
It makes it effective because it's important to know the characteristics of Maggie for later on in the story and comparing Maggie to a lame ran over dog shows you more powerfully that Maggie is the ugly sister who doesn't get anything she
The author used "Everyday Use" as the title because at the end of the story when Dee said, "Maggie would put them on the bed and in five hears they'd be in rags." she was complaining that Maggie would use the quilt everyday and it would get ruined but the mom however still gives it to Maggie because she promised her and she wants it to be used everyday instead of using it as decorations. Also Mama is tired that Dee always gets what she wants and treats her and her sister with disrespect all the time. So to me it was a good choice as a title because it's a way to value the past and keep it alive.
2.
A.) "She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that "no" is a word the world never learned to say to her." It's an idiom because held life in the palm of one hand really means she can pretty much do whatever she wants it doesn't really mean you hold your life in your hand. It's also personification because it's give the world human characteristics by never telling her no cause really the world can't talk.
Denotation and connotation is that Dee never gets told no and always get what she wants
It makes it effective because can you can see the true personality of Dee a lot better and it makes it a lot more powerful rather then if it just said Dee always gets what she wants.
B.) "Have you ever seen a lame animal, perhaps a dog run over by some careless person rich enough to own a car......that's is how my Maggie walks."
This is a metaphor because she is comparing Maggie to a lame dog that has been ran over.
Denotation is that Maggie walks like a dog that has been ran over. Connotation is that Maggie walks like a small poor little girl who feels like she doesn't belong in the world.
It makes it effective because it's important to know the characteristics of Maggie for later on in the story and comparing Maggie to a lame ran over dog shows you more powerfully that Maggie is the ugly sister who doesn't get anything she