Alice Walker's Childhood

In “Everyday Use”, Alice Walker presents an everyday average family which involves a single mother with two daughters, one who seems to have life handed to her, and the other who is shy and lacks confidence in herself due to a family tragedy. Alice Walker gives some interesting stories behind each of her main characters: Mrs. Johnson, Dee (Wangero), Maggie, and Hakim Akbar (Asalamalakim). Among the characters in the story, Mrs. Johnson stands out because she loves her daughters equally, she accepts them both, and she overcomes her conflict with Dee.

Alice Walker's short fictional story, "Nineteen Fifty-five", revolves around the encounters among Gracie Mae Still, the narrator, and Traynor, the "Emperor of Rock and Roll." Traynor as a young prospective singer purchases a song from Mrs. Still, which becomes his "first hit record" and makes him rich and famous. Yet, he does not "even understand" the song and spends his entire life trying to figure out "what the song means." The song he sings seems as fictional as certain events in this story, but as historical as Traynor's based character, Elvis Presley.

My paper literary artist Alice walker and visual artist Van Goth are best artist in the world, they have many similar things and different things, they are come from different century, different country, they have different family background, they have different work and life. People have different views on them. They both well know and both have a lot of fans in the world. Compared their difference and similar, life and work. We could links the two lives and their work together.

An author’s positioning of details in a story can make or break a story. Many aspects of revealing details can go wrong, but those details can be used to build suspense when they are placed in the correct space. Characterization is a huge part of Walker’s piece, and the way in which she used imagery and past events builds suspense and provides only needed information. The suspense created by Walker creates a sense of uneasiness in the reader, and adds to the overall message of the story. Through foreshadowing, Alice Walker was able to build up her characters and her plot, while at the same time not giving away too much information too soon. Stories can easily be flooded out with too much nonessential information, but all the information

In Alice Walker's story "Everyday Use" Mama is the storyteller. She talks about her two little girls Maggie and Dee. Through the eyes of the two daughters, Dee and Maggie, who have experienced their lives in a real different way, the reader can pick which character to project himself most with by judging what has a real meaning in one's life. All through the story three topics reliably appear. These subjects demonstrate that the family is isolated by disgrace, pride, and knowledge.

In the short story “Everyday Use”, Alice Walker does a great job as being a black American women that maintain a home and chores/duties alone as a lady proving many stereotypes to be wrong or misjudged and keeping the meaning of heritage in the picture. She is proud or astonished about her accomplishment and or what she has done with things from how they first were in the beginning.

In the short story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, the author portrays opposing ideas about one’s heritage. Through the eyes of two daughters, Dee and Maggie, who have chosen to live their lives in very different manners, the reader can choose which character to identify most with by judging what is really important in one’s life. In Dee’s case, she goes out to make all that can of herself while leaving her past behind, in comparison to Maggie, who stays back with her roots and makes the most out of the surroundings that she has been placed in. Through the use of symbolism, the tangible object of a family heirloom quilt brings out these issues relating to heritage to Mama, and she is able to reasonably

In Alice Walker's "Everyday Use” she creates a conflict between characters. Walker describes a family as they anxiously await the arrival of, Dee, the older sister of the family. When Dee (Wangero) comes home to visit Mrs. Johnson and Maggie, right away the readers see the differences in the family by how they talk, act, and dress. Dee has changed her name to an "African" name and is collecting the objects and materials of her past. Dee thinks that since she is in college she knows mores then the rest of her uneducated family. She is more educated and looks down on the simple life of her mother and sister. When Dee asks for a beautiful family heirloom quilt to hang on her wall, Mrs. Johnson finally denies her of this task. Mrs. Johnson finally sees that Dee does not want the quilt for the same purpose as Maggie does. Instead, Mrs. Johnson will give Maggie the quilt to keep her and her husband warm. The theme of the importance of heritage becomes clear at this point of the story. This theme is shown by Walker's use of conflict, irony, and symbolism. All throughout her short story she incorporates heritage. She describes it as a background feeling between family members, and African heritage to heirlooms that have been in the family line for generations. Dee the older sister takes her heritage for granted by only wanting her heirlooms for her educational purposes.

A feather landed in a splatter of yellow paint on the dusty concrete, and was trampled by the passersby as they hurried past in their haste to get to the highlight of the fair: the prized bird judging. Ellie sat in a corner perched on the edge of her stool, cheered by the queue of people waiting for her to paint their portrait. As an Art student, she used the money she earned from selling her paintings at the local markets and fairs to pay her tuition fees, her rent and feed herself.

Being a parent with more than one child, the chances of them having similar personalities is very slim. Most parents are pretty much okay with that, and just want their children to at least get along. In the story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, Mama had two daughters who grew up in the same household, but turned out to be very different. Maggie was the younger sister who some might call the ugly sister and pretty much stayed to herself. She hasn’t ever ventured out on her own, and doesn’t know what its like to live off the farm. Then there was Dee the light skin pretty older sister. Dee very let where she came from stop her Dee was considered to confident, self-centered, and confused.

Everyone has different views on culture and how to preserve it. “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker is a story about two sisters and their mother. The two sisters have completely different ideas on how to preserve their heritage. Mama has to basically choose which way is better. Maggie wants to continue her heritage, and Dee wants to save itl.

In the story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, we are shown that heritage is one of the most important issues that embodies where an individual derived. This story exemplifies not only the representation of heritage but also divides the difference between what heritage means and what it may be viewed to be. Throughout the story, it exposes an African-American family living in a small home and struggling financially. Three women are described in this short story, two sisters, and their mother. One of the sisters is named Maggie, and the other is named Dee.

Heritage is defined as “property that descends to an heir” by Mirriam-Webster.com. In “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, the quilts that were made from past family member’s clothing and old fabrics passed down through the family is a representation of their family and ethnic heritage. Mama, Maggie, and Dee (Wangero) all have different views about what their heritage actually is, yet each of them can appreciate the family history behind the quilts and hand-me-downs.

At every stage of life, our relationships and families present us with both joys and challenges. Learning to manage stress, to understand our own emotions and behaviors, and to communicate effectively can help strengthen our own emotional health, as well as our connection to the important people in our lives. In “Everyday Use” certain characters I would like to explain the relationships between Mama and her two daughters Dee and Maggie; the relationship that they have towards one another maybe the cause and effect of the actions taken place during the story. Mama is a robust woman who does what is needed to maintain the upkeep of the land. "I am a large, big-boned woman with rough, man-working hands....

     Alice Walker is an African American essayist, novelist and poet. She is described as a “black feminist.”(Ten on Ten) Alice Walker tries to incorporate the concepts of her heritage that are absent into her essays; such things as how women should be independent and find their special talent or art to make their life better. Throughout Walker’s essay entitled “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens,” I determined there were three factors that aided Walker gain the concepts of her heritage which are through artistic ability, her foremothers and artistic models.