Authors such as Raymond Carter began to write what they knew, the simple and the logical, by using minimalism. ... The same idea as in Cathedral is weaved throughout Alice Walker's piece entitled Everyday Use. ... Johnson snatches her ancestors' quilts from her daughter Dee, who wants to hang them on a wall, and gives them to Maggie, Walker illuminates her life-long celebration of rural Southern black womanhood. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate