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Everyday Use

Date Submitted: 12/01/2002 00:49:25
Category: / Literature / English
Length: 2 pages (513 words)
“Everyday Use” “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker has an underlying theme of heritage and tradition. This is a black family living in the early 1970’s, and for them tradition and heritage is everything in the world. The oldest daughter, Dee, who has renamed herself Wangero, tells her mother and her sister, Maggie, “You just don’t understand…your heritage.” Wangero is upset because she wants the quilts that were made by her grandmother. In my …
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…and she was going to get it. For Wangero, heritage is nothing more than something that is put on display. Ms. Johnson and Maggie have learned that heritage truly is how they live their lives each and every day. It is all the things that they have come to repeat and do in part of their everyday lives. To Ms. Johnson and Maggie heritage is the things in life that are put to “everyday use.”
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