ALice Walker's Everyday Use
In Alice Walker’s short story, “Everyday Use” tells about a poor family living in a ran down house. In the family, was a mother and two daughters all three having different views of heritage. Mama is a simple woman who can appear to be a country woman shows that heritage is done by living and doing simple things in life, Maggie is the shy passive sister that is similar to Mama in her simple way of life but she remembers the meaning of heritage. Dee is a college-attending student learning about heritage. Dee is stylish and outspoken. She tends to view heritage with an art deco attitude…stylish and trendy.Mama life has been spent working. Working hard in every sense of the word. She worked hard to give to her daughter the chances in life that she never had. Mama is a country woman big, strong, and self sufficient: I am a large, big boned woman with rough, man-working hands. In the winter I wear flannel nightgowns to bed and overalls during the day. I can kill and clean a hog as mercilessly as a man. My fat keeps me hot in zero weather. I can work outside all day, breaking ice to get water for washing; I can eat pork even cooked over the open fire minutes after it comes steaming from the hog. (Walker 174)
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Approximate Word count = 939
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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