Lost Heritage In Alice Walker's "Everyday Use"
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By contrasting the family characters in "Everyday Use," Walker illustrates
the mistake by some of placing the significance of heritage solely in material
objects. Walker presents Mama and Maggie, the younger daughter, as an example
that heritage in both knowledge and form passes from one generatio ....
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.... overalls during the day.
I can kill and clean a hog as mercilessly as a man. I
can work outside all day, One winter I knocked a bull
calf straight in the brain with a sledge hammer and
had the meat hung up to chill before nightfall. (Walker
289)
And Maggie is the daughter, "homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms
and legs," (Walker 288) who helps Mama by making "the yard so clean and wavy"
(Walker 288) and washes dishes "in the ....
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