Essay on Everyday Use
Pg 424 #2 Consider a short story in which the narrator is the central character, “Everyday Use” (Chapter 2). Write an essay showing how the language of the narrator affects your attitudes toward him or her (that is, your sympathy for the narrator, your interest in the narrative, your feelings toward the other characters and what they do). Be sure to emphasize the relationship between the narrator’s language and your responses. The narrator describes herself as “a large big boned women with rough, man-working hands”, and someone who wears overalls during the day and flannel pajamas at night”. She can “kill and clean a hog as mercilessly as a man“. This statement helps me to visualize a very rustic women. If she had just said “ I am large”, and “I live on a farm“, I would be left in the dark as to her lifestyle. In the way she describes herself she lets me in on the environment that she lives in as well as how hard she works in that environment. When mama first talks about Dee and says, “Hesitation was not part of her nature”, and “She would always look anyone in the
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Some common words found in the essay are:
Dee Maggie, Instead Dee, Everyday Chapter, Dee Dees, Dee Hesitation, Wangero Hakim-a-barber, Mama Maggie, , Maggie Mama, dee maggie, bee stung, dee quilts, story narrator,
Approximate Word count = 732
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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