Alice Walker’s fiction

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•Open with a short quote (50 words maximum) – written by or about the author in question
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extra information: The central characters in Alice Walker’s fiction are usually black women, and matters of racism and sexism frequently dominate her stories. In

“Everyday Use” she portrays the abuse with which daughters treat their mothers—and sisters—and the artificial values that children adopt and seek to impose on others.

The story is in some ways a morality tale about the artificial values of the “risen.” The author suggests that Dee does not really understand her heritage. The mother

clearly understands the heritage represented in the churn and the quilts.

These are the QUESTIONS to answer, please number the answer.

1. What is revealed about the narrator in the first paragraphs of “Everyday Use”? What is revealed in her remarks about “TV shows where the child who has ‘made it’ is

confronted, by surprise, by her own mother and father”?
2. What other elements in “Everyday Use” prepare the reader for Dee before she arrives on the scene?

3. Do the narrator’s language and grammatical usage match the picture she paints of herself in the descriptive passages at the beginning of the story?
4. Comment on the significance of the following: “She used to read to us without pity; forcing words, lies, other folks’ habits, whole lives upon us two, sitting

trapped and ignorant underneath the sound of her voice.”
5. Does the author suggest that the mother and Maggie do understand their heritage? Or that ideas of heritage are simply less important to them than other matters?

from book America Literature Norton Anthology “Everyday use”

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