I felt that the story "In the Gloaming" by Alice Elliot Dark reminded me of another story that I have read before, it is "The Children Stay" by Alice Munro. ... Alice Elliot Dark shows how a mother loves her child by staying with her son until the day that he dies. ... Laird says, "If that is what he wants, I"m afraid I"m going to have to disappoint him again. ... Until one day she suddenly decides to leave her husband and her family to go away with another man. ... When she asks him about her daughters he responds by saying, "The Children Stay." ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Vicky and Alice stay in the shop mostly to attract customers, but it Maggie who does all the work. ... Albert comes into the shop only to speak to Alice. ... This makes Maggie even more determind to find a husband so she goes into the shop and askes the shoehand. Maggie eventually persuades the shoehand, Willie Mossop, to be herhusband and Maggie goes off to tellher family. ... Alice is to marry Albert and Vicky, Freddie. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

She loved to play games such as Spite and Malice or as she called it, Spit on Alice and Yahtzee. ... But when I reached the living room, which is where she was, the funeral people had taken her out the door and were going down the stairs. My grandmother asked them, "Is it possible for you to bring her back in here so that my granddaughter can say goodbye?" ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the short story "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, her character Dee portrays the need to escape. ... I"d wanted to ask her. ... She was the only one who had the opportunity to go to college and escape ignorance so she seized it. ... In this short story, Alice Walker shows us how Dee was not only greedy with money but also with her heritage. ... In "Everyday Use", Alice Walker tries to define to us what a person's heritage can really mean. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

"Everyday Use" In "Everyday Use," Alice Walker navigates the cultural gap between a mother and her two daughters. ... Ironically enough, the way the two girls were raised caused them both to go separate ways socially. ... Everything is going well, until material possessions get in the way of the family. Dee begins asking about various antique items in the home and their ownership status. ... The battle, it seems, will be on going with no end in sight. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Mother and Daughter relationships The story "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker (329-335) show us how mother hood and daughter relationships are different. ... The mother goes on to tell how Dee is "lighter than"330), Maggie. ... Maggie ask her " mama" (330) how she looks. ... (331) like her family going to know what she is saying. ... (332) and then goes on to say that "She's Dead" (332) that Dee is gone. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Mother and Daughter relationships The story "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker (329-335) show us how mother hood and daughter relationships are different. ... The mother goes on to tell how Dee is "lighter than"330), Maggie. ... Maggie ask her " mama" (330) how she looks. ... (331) like her family going to know what she is saying. ... (332) and then goes on to say that "She's Dead" (332) that Dee is gone. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

I live with my parents Alice and Richard and my little sister Addie. ... When I say soon I didn't know it was going to be that upcoming Wednesday. ... I asked him about the car and how he got it and why he got it and he kept making a nstrange noise as like he didn't understand what I was saying. ... I asked him how I was to believe that he was my real father. ... It was a lot going on for me to take at one time. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Alice Walker is a child of sharecroppers who raised cotton in the rural South. ... Alice Walker's, "Everyday Use," explores an African-American family exploring their heritage. ... Mama's character goes through a transition once Dee arrives, going from being inferior to standing her ground when Dee says she wants the quilts: " I did something I never had done before: hugged Maggie to me snatched the quilts out of Miss. ... When Mama asks, "What happened to Dee?... Prior to Dee going off to school, Mama offers her a quilt and Dee denies. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

PARENTS AND KIDS RELATIONSHIPS "October Sky" by Joe Johnston and "Every Day Use" by Alice Walker's stories deal with parents and kids relationships. ... The only one the can help in is his dad and he goes and makes another rocket for him. ... Once he wins the scholarship goes back to his town. ... We're able to know this when Dee asks her mother for the quilts. ... As well as "Every Day Use" by Alice Walker provided us a list of conflicts, which made Maggie and her mother relationship very static. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Alice Walker's, Everyday Use (For Your Grandmama), was about a black mother and her two daughters named Dee and Maggie. ... While visiting, Dee asked to take some of her family's heirlooms and prized keepsakes back home with her. ... Dee was still used to getting her way and was getting quite upset at the fact that her mother was not going to let her have the quilts. ...

• Word Count: 813
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• Grade Level: High School

At school he can receive answers to questions that could not even be asked at home. ... "Books were going to make me educated." ... I didn't decide, "Well today I'm going to become 40 percent Mexican and 60 percent Gringo." ... He asks this rhetorical question: "Could anything shorter be a book?" ... Yet, Rodriguez read Plato's Republic at an age when a usual student would most probably read Lewis's "Alice Adventures in Wonderland". ...

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• Grade Level: High School

George's was my grandfather's favorite restaurant and I can remember going there every time I went to visit him at the office. ... "Yaw grandfodda was the most po-lite man I eva eva knew", Alice said, "A real charma. ... The sight of the army uniform sparked an immediate interest and I asked what did Boppa do in World War Two. ...

• Word Count: 1372
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School