Trina told Mama first about her engagement, she wanted Mama's opinion on the whole matter. ... Grandpa went to work one day but never actually made it up to his floor. ... In "I Remember Mama," Mama asks Jessie, Uncle Chris's friend, "You like to come to San Francisco for a little? ... De Pinna for example, he delivered ice one day and never left. ... Also Ed, Essies husband, came to dinner one day and never left. ...
The play begins with the family eagerly waiting for a check of $10,000.00 to come in the day's mail. ... One day, when Mama is out of the house, a representative of Clybourne Park, named Karl Lindner, visits the family and tries to kindly tell them that people of their kind are not welcomed in the new community. ... But, Mama's family was no longer a loving one. ... Mama's plant would once again flourish in the new home. ... Mama's family could also grow, since Ruth was pregnant. ...
ACT I, Scene 2: The following morning Summary This is the day when the insurance check is expected to arrive. Mama and Beneatha are busy doing spring cleaning. ... ACT II, Scene 1: Later, the same day Summary Later on the same day, Beneatha dances to African music in her new Nigerian robes and headdress as Ruth stands ironing nearby. ... Mama quizzes Walter about where he has been. ... ACT II, Scene 3: Moving day, one week later Summary It is Saturday, a week later and the day that the Youngers are to move out of their old house. ...
Me and my brother Tom had to help Mama out a lot that year. ... Just as well anyway he wouldn't of lasted a day in that hot blisterin sun anyhow. ... Me and Tom would have to run up stairs so Mama could "talk to him." ... After that day the Rodsters didn't bug us no more, but things just seemed to get worse, while me and Tom were at the water hole, Daddy had a heart attack. ... Mama screamed with excitement and the man handed us the key. ...
Dee told Mama, ""No, Mama," she says. ... While Mama wrapped those items, Dee ran into Mamas room to the trunk that is at the end of her bed. ... When Dee reappeared from Mama's room with the quilts, Mama revealed that the quilts had been promised to Maggie. ... It's really a new day for us. But from the way you and Mama still live you'd never know it....
Mama, the narrator, views her heritage as an active concept. ... Mama was taught these things from the women before her. ... She has learned these things and uses them every day. ... She thinks the complete opposite of Mama. ... This again shows how Mama views her heritage as an active concept. ...
The narrator, Mama, "a large big boned woman with rough, man working hands, who wears, "flannel nightgowns to bed and overalls during the day," whose, "fat keeps her hot in zero weather," is strong and uneducated and does anything to make her daughters Dee and Maggie happy (Walker 298). ... Mama then continues to say, "Take one or two of the others," (303). ... When Mama asks, "What happened to Dee?... Prior to Dee going off to school, Mama offers her a quilt and Dee denies. ... Mama denies Dee of the quilts, Dee replies, "It's really a new day...
Mama suggests appreciate of heritage and while doing so have it pass on from generation to generation. ... Mama was of African-American decent, mid-age. ... The story had a setting with Mama and Maggie awaits the visitation of Dee. ... Mama wanted for Maggie to have the quilt and use in for everyday use. ... With Mama giving the quilt to Maggie, she wanted her to use it every day, while Dee would only hand it....
"No, Mama, " she says. ... She expresses no regards or sympathy towards Mama. ... "She will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. " Every day since the house burned down Maggie walks around unsure of her self. ... It's really a new day fro us. ... Mama view on her daughter Dee changes throughout the story. ...
Mama (Lena) of the Younger family is to receive a ten thousand dollar insurance check after the death of Big Walter, Mama's husband and father to Walter and Beneatha, which could possibly fulfil each one of their dreams. ... Ruth refuses to help Walter coerce Mama into giving him the insurance money for the investment. ... Beneatha answers Walter's question with sharpness and impatience, responding, "And what did I answer yesterday morning – and the day before that" (99)? ... Mama quickly reminded her that she shouldn't speak that way about her brother. Mama, th...
Growing up poor, Mama had to work hard to raise her family. ... Mama enjoys the simplistic things in life. Early and at the end of the story, she describes how just sitting in the front yard, although hers is clay and sand, can pass the day away as though she was in her living room. Throughout the entire story, Mama pretty much acts like a pacifist. ... This is the first time Mama stood up to Dee. ...
This insults Mama while making Beneatha look well-educated and pompous. Mama has a deep ingrained pride in her. ... In this clip, Mama reminds Walter Lee that he needs to stand up for who he is. ... Near the start of the play, the family awakens and gets ready for the day's work. ... The reason Mama tells Walter he should talk to his wife is because she is pregnant. ...
The Youngers are a working class family trying to get by day by day with what they can. Mama says it herself, "We just plain working folks" (Hansberry 388). However, Mama is receiving a ten thousand dollar check from her late husband's life insurance. ... When Mama receives the insurance money, it gives the Youngers hope. ... Mama wants to give nothing but the best to her family. ...
Mama only got a minor part. ... Mama took Gay, Forun, Leo and me with her and left. ... Finch started going off leaving Mama at home. Think he'd go to town and stay all day or to visit his married children. Anyway one day we were washing clothes, scrubbing them on a rub board, when he decided to go visit one of his married daughters and sped the night, Mama decided she'd go too. ...
Mama has another daughter, Dee, who was sent away to be educated at an early age. ... Dee comes back one day to "visit" and asks her mother for an heirloom quilt that has already been promised to her sister. ... Through Mama, the narrator, Walker uses characterization to share Mama's observations of her daughter Maggie. ... What is told about Mama is only her description of herself. ... Mama's submissive attitude is shown through her actions. ...
These people were Mama, Walter, and Beneatha. Mama is the leader of one way of thinking, she desires the family to be together and for the Youngers to be one strong unit. ... Mama's dream is a shared one in the end. ... Even though his intensions were good, him being a partner in a liquor store would only make his drinking worse, and him dealing with drunks all day would make him grow farther away from the family. ... Up until the conclusion where mama gets a new house for them all to live in, they only wanted money for themselves. ...
This text deals with this issue in Mama Elena's shocking mistreatment of her youngest daughter Tita. ... Instead she was confined to the destiny of looking after her mother until the day she died. This was an extreme act self-centeredness of the part of Mama Elena. ... Mama Elena was constantly abusing Tita, emotionally and physically. ... When Pedro and his father came to ask Mama Elena for Tita's hand in marriage, she forbade it, but she offered Rosaura's instead. ...
Simultaneously, Mama directed a similar message towards married female viewers. Mama was the epitome of the happy housewife, perfectly fulfilled and content with her place in society. This effort to convey Mama's value in the home provided encouragement for the housewives of the day who questioned their limited role as merely wives and mothers. ... The character of Nels on Mama best represents this shift in national consciousness. ... Her employment required a commute that took her far away during the day, and the majority of my mother's memories are of both her parents workin...
I remember when the doctor first informed me that I had to actually have the surgery, I mean I knew that one day I would actually need it but the shock of it actually happening just a few months from now really frightened me at first. ... The night before the big day my Mama, Daddy, Stepfather, And Papaw all went to eat at a nice restaurant and had a very good time. The morning of surgery, I had to take a shower with a special wash and while in the shower it hit me that the day actually was here. ... My mama tried to be strong but you could tell she was a wreck but I was more worried about t...
This paper argues that Mama made the right decision in, "Everyday Use," by Alice Walker. When Mama gave the quilts to Maggie and did not let Dee take them away to hang them on her wall like in a museum to show off her perceived roots, to showcase her heritage. ... Only those traditions can live on that are handed down, hence they are a part of the intergenerational culture, and are used every day, as that is the only way to include it in contemporary culture in its entirety. ... To Maggie and Mama, heritage is something that remains forever subordinate to living tradition and the different ...
Sadly, Mama Elena also denies Pedro's love and marriage proposal to Tita. ... Mama Elena forces Pedro and Rosoura to move to San Antonio, Texas. Mama Elena becomes more and more cruel to Tita day by day. ... Mama Elena becomes suspicious of Tita, claiming she poisons her food. She turned away every one of Tita's delicious dishes, "[Mama Elena] absolutely refused to eat anything that Tita had cooked." " (133) This quote connects Mama's actions to Tita's maturity. ...
At the funeral Ellen's mama's mama (grandmother) calls her dad a bastard and storms out. ... On the first day of school Ellen's art teacher, Julia, notices a bruise on her arm and decides Ellen should come live with her and her husband. ... Ellen stays there for the school year until summer when she is forced to go live with her mama's mama. ... Her father dies and so does her mama's mama. ... She walks to her new mama's house and the story is finally at the same point in time....
Each day Walter has to continue working as a servant, his internal frustration and anger build, and he eventually releases his anger against Beneatha, Ruth, and Mama. ... When Walter explains why he dislikes being a chauffeur, he tells his mother, "I open and close car doors all day long. ... Mama, that ain't no kind of job . . . that ain't nothing at all" (1855). ... When Mama tells her she put a down payment on a new home, Ruth exclaims, "PRAISE GOD!" ... Willy betrays Walter's trust by running away with the money, and when Mama learns of Walter's irresponsibility, she be...
Alice Walker's "Everyday Use" begins with Mama and Maggie sitting out in the front yard. ... The exposition goes through the mother's thoughts of how the day is going to progress. ... Mama also thinks of the other house, the one that burnt, and the way Dee hates the old house. ... Mama tells Dee that she promises the quilts to Maggie for when she marries. ... Dee and Hakimabarber leaves in a hurry due to Dee's attitude after Mama denies the quilts to her. ...
