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. ...

• Word Count: 336
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• Grade Level: High School

Mama is a very strong character in this play. ... Walter's character did not change much because of Mama's trust in him. When she figures out about Walter deceiving her, she becomes enraged, and states, talking about Walter's father, "I seen him...night after night...killing himself...but you gave it all away in a day" (129). ... Another example of this would be when Mama told him that she bought them a new house. ... He was in denial for the longest time, finally snapping out of it when Mama started to beat him. ...

• Word Count: 904
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy Mama," (Hansberry 254). He tells his mama as what would make him happy. Walter as the only man of the family does not even think he has a real job as he complains to his mama that "I open and close car doors all day long. ... This made his mama say that Walter was a "disgrace to his father's memory" (Hansberry 255), since he did not make any effort to stand up and fight through the hardship. ... It is no surprise to hear Mama proudly say, "He finally came into his manhood today, kind of like rainbow after the rain" (Hansberry 2...

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• Grade Level: High School

When papa was finally able to afford me and mamas fare for the boat ride to New York, I found out my beautiful picture of America was all wrong. I swear the letters papa wrote to mama and I in Sicily made this place seem like heaven. ... He must be making ten dollars a day in this bakery. ... Things got hard after that mama had no job I wasn't in on the molasses run and we were dead broke. ... So about two years pass and my eighteenth birthday as well mama and I are surviving but the money we made from selling the bakery is running short. mama started going to the speakeasy a lot I wasn&#...

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• Grade Level: High School

I remembered coming home with tears in my eyes one day after school. ... Her life was just like a routine until one day she fell in love with a young man who later became her husband. ... That night, she looked at her child and vowed to herself, "Mama will never ever let you live the way mama was forced to live. Mama will make sure that you study in school, able to graduate from the university and have a respectable job.... Your mama, your aunt and uncle are living testimonies of Po Po's story. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

"One, your mama was funny. ... Otis fascinates her by starting the day singing to the animals. ... The next day she met this girl called Gloria Dump. ... When it was the day of the party, everyone came. ...

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Esperanza views her mother as a pretty, warm loving person: "my mother's hair, my mothers hair, like little rosettes, like little candy circles all curly and pretty because she pinned it in pincurls all day, sweet to put your nose into when she is holding you, holding you and you feel safe- (6). ... The day of her cousin's baptism her mother doesn't bring home the shoes Esperanza wanted for her new outfit, showing Esperanza she really doesn't care about her feelings. ... "Mama dances, laughs, dances. All of a sudden, mama is sick" (47). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Nnu had an older female friend named Mama Abby. Mama Abby helped her read letters from her husband and sometimes took the children. ... Nnu did her trade so that she could keep her boys in school so that would some day take care of her. ... She was unable to read the letter send to her home so she asked the help Of Mama Abby. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

My sisters and I were transferred to a cheaper school and had to walk six miles to school every day. ... I remember each time my sisters and I passed, we would sprint the six miles and excitedly hand over the reports to mama, squealing "Your useless girls are back! ...

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One day he found out that his high school sweetheart was pregnant, he then got married to her during the summer after their senior year in high school, and the two moved together from Boise, Idaho, to Cambridge, Mass where their son was born. ... It's basically telling him from the baby mama to him that she wasn't able to take care of the baby, Emma, and that she just needs some time to get things straight before she comes back. This whole thing came as a surprise because Ben didn't even date her that long and didn't even know she was pregnant till that day. ...

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• Has Bibliography

My sister and I kissed her and said, "I love you mama. " I did not know those were going to be my last words or even my last time seeing her alive forever. ... She fed us breakfast and told us we were not going to school that day. ... After the funeral, the next day I had to report back to school. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The boys had to adjust to not physically seeing their mom every day. ... The youngest son is going through the "mama's baby stage." He just wants to be with his mama and does not mind telling anyone about it.​ ​...

• Word Count: 1993
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

October 26, 1995 is the day that I was born. ... There weren't any hospitals nearby in the village, so a day before my mom was due, my parents travelled to the city to give birth to me. ... The first word I said was "Mama and that was around when I was a one year old. ... I love school, and learning new things every day. ... She is a very hard working woman, and one day I wish to be just like her....

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PARENTS AND KIDS RELATIONSHIPS "October Sky" by Joe Johnston and "Every Day Use" by Alice Walker's stories deal with parents and kids relationships. ... In "Every Day Use" it's a story narrated by a woman who describes her self as "a large, big-boned woman with rough, woman-working hands." ... This was shown when she says to her mother "She can have them, Mama, I can still remember Grandma Dee without 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

One hot summer day Uncle Ed stormed into the house and took the kids to his house, "Ed told us that he didn't live very far from us, but walking barefooted on the rock road in the boiling hot sun, I began to wonder how far was "not very far.... " (Moody, page 20) and to this Anne responded ""Mama told us we ain't supposed to wear our shoes out round the house. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

One day one of Rosa Lee`s customers offered her extra money to also have sex with Patty, who was eleven years old at this time. ... "Mama, have the checks come in yet?... One day, Bobby and some of his friends broke into a music store and stole expensive instruments. ...

• Word Count: 2335
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School