Everyday Use By Alice Walker Research Paper
Everyday Use
A. Alice Walker is an African American poet, essayist, novelist activist, and short-story writer. Alice Walker penned the novel “The Color Purple” which is her most famous novel, in for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize (Bio.Com). Walker also won the National Book Award in the same year 1983 (Bio.Com).
Alice Walker was born and raised in Eatonton Georgia; she was the youngest daughter of share croppers (Bio.Com). Living in the racially divided south, Walker attended segregated schools (Bio.Com). Alice Walker wrote the Everyday Use Story using her own experiences, growing up in a poor household (Bio.Com). She was from a large family, and her mother did what needed to be done, in order to take care of her family, even if it wasn’t what society, would consider socially acceptable (Bio.Com). Walker suffered a serious injury that assisted in creating a homebody, reminding me of Maggie. The recent turn in her social life created the amazing writer we are reading about today.
Walker wrote many times stories that were based on her own experiences (Bio.Com). She had a creative mind and her vision was based on African American life and culture (Bio.Com). In particular, about their folk wisdom, economic …show more content…
The narrator told this story in first person, from the eyes of mama. The setting of the story is set up so that the reader is able to picture what the home looks like, and how mama is feeling knowing that Dee is on her way. The details given by the author also shows that Dee is very critical of the way Mama and Maggie live. Alice walker does a fantastic job of being specific when talking about Dee’s ideas of heritage, but also does an equally good job, in subtly noting that heritage isn’t just physical items. Heritage is also the way life is lived, and the changes that are made, throughout the history of their family. In the case of this story, the subtle heritage is that they are hard working. Mama works hard for what she has and appreciates
A. Alice Walker is an African American poet, essayist, novelist activist, and short-story writer. Alice Walker penned the novel “The Color Purple” which is her most famous novel, in for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize (Bio.Com). Walker also won the National Book Award in the same year 1983 (Bio.Com).
Alice Walker was born and raised in Eatonton Georgia; she was the youngest daughter of share croppers (Bio.Com). Living in the racially divided south, Walker attended segregated schools (Bio.Com). Alice Walker wrote the Everyday Use Story using her own experiences, growing up in a poor household (Bio.Com). She was from a large family, and her mother did what needed to be done, in order to take care of her family, even if it wasn’t what society, would consider socially acceptable (Bio.Com). Walker suffered a serious injury that assisted in creating a homebody, reminding me of Maggie. The recent turn in her social life created the amazing writer we are reading about today.
Walker wrote many times stories that were based on her own experiences (Bio.Com). She had a creative mind and her vision was based on African American life and culture (Bio.Com). In particular, about their folk wisdom, economic …show more content…
The narrator told this story in first person, from the eyes of mama. The setting of the story is set up so that the reader is able to picture what the home looks like, and how mama is feeling knowing that Dee is on her way. The details given by the author also shows that Dee is very critical of the way Mama and Maggie live. Alice walker does a fantastic job of being specific when talking about Dee’s ideas of heritage, but also does an equally good job, in subtly noting that heritage isn’t just physical items. Heritage is also the way life is lived, and the changes that are made, throughout the history of their family. In the case of this story, the subtle heritage is that they are hard working. Mama works hard for what she has and appreciates