Alice Walker’s Everyday Use: Family Characters
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The family characters in Alice Walker’s " Everyday Use " illustrates the mistake by some people of placing the significance of heritage solely in material objects. Mama and Maggie, are presented as how heritage is passed on from one generation to another through learning and experience. Dee, rep ....
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.... " (73). However by helping her mother she uses the hand made items in her life, experiences the life of her ancestors, and learns the history of both.
Contrasting with mama and Maggie, Dee seeks her heritage without understanding the heritage itself. Unlike Mama who is rough and man-like, and Maggie who is shy and scared, Dee is confident, " determined to stare down any disaster in her efforts" (73) she is beautiful and dresses eloquently. Also she has a higher education having being ....
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