This paper argues that Mama made the right decision in, "Everyday Use," by Alice Walker. ... Walker's short story raises questions about how identity, tradition and ideology are connected to each other and provides her own personal answer to it. ... This was the social background of the period when Everyday Use was written and it is generally perceived to be Walker's criticism of the African American obsession with its African roots and it provides Walker's answer to what heritage means and how it should be handled, (Christian 7). ... In In Search of Our mother's Gardens...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For example, from Alice Walker's book, The Color Purple, Alice writes about the pain and experiences that she has faced or has witnessed. Alice writes, "Your daddy didn't know how to git along, he say. ... Both Alice and Quincy relate to literacy from there own lives and experiences. ... Alice Walker uses exclusionary language. ... For example Alice uses the word "spose" which would mean to people from the North "suppose" (66). ...

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The same idea as in Cathedral is weaved throughout Alice Walker's piece entitled Everyday Use. In letting a rural black woman with little education tell a story that affirms the value of her heritage, Walker articulates what has since become two central themes in her writing: the importance of the quilt in her work and the creation of African American Southern women as subjects in their own right. ... 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 ...

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The sociological evaluation of Everyday Use by Alice Walker enlightens on issues that continue to plague American families in the present. ... In Everyday Use economic problems are abound in how Walker forms her characters. This story illustrates the economic ways that Walker's African American family is seeking fame and higher forms of living. ... Walker describes Dee in her flamboyant yearning for wealth and power: "Earrings gold, too, and hanging down her shoulders. ... Walker's argument in this story is clear that an African-American is both African and American in cultural persp...

• Word Count: 973
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate