Read Alice Walker’s "Everyday Use" and answer the questions below that are geared toward helping you understand her narrative point of view and purpose. Offer specific support from the text. You are encouraged to complete a first draft of the assignment then revise your work.
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1. What do you know about the mother of the story?
As stated by the writer, the mother is a strong overweight black woman living in a country farm. She raised both Dee and Maggie. The mother is expecting that one day Maggie will find true love, and hopefully she will live a normal life. As the story goes on, Dee’s mother and Maggie were expecting to see Dee who is the other daughter that had been gone for college. Upon the mother’s Dee returning home for a family reunion, Dee, the daughter accompanying along with a gentleman who is her boyfriend or soon to be husband. As soon as, the mother saw her daughter Dee, she was in shocked to see her daughter had changed dramatically by dresses with flashy clothing and later find out her name had been changed as well.
2. When we have a first-person narrator, we have to decide if she is reliable or unreliable. Do you trust this narrator? Why or why not?
I believe that the writer told the …show more content…
Dee the daughter believes that she understands the history about the quilt, when in fact she is actually clueless. Dee wanted to display the quilt as a piece of history on the wall. During that time, the mother believes that Maggie ought to have the quilt as opposed to Dee. Maggie, the other daughter stayed at home and that she has a better understanding of the quilt, which was, more than a piece of art to the mother. Dee believes that her mother and Maggie are clueless about family heritage, when in fact that is it Dee herself who is inform about
Submit the assignment to the Dropbox no later than Sunday 11:59 PM EST/EDT. (The Dropbox is linked to Turnitin.)
1. What do you know about the mother of the story?
As stated by the writer, the mother is a strong overweight black woman living in a country farm. She raised both Dee and Maggie. The mother is expecting that one day Maggie will find true love, and hopefully she will live a normal life. As the story goes on, Dee’s mother and Maggie were expecting to see Dee who is the other daughter that had been gone for college. Upon the mother’s Dee returning home for a family reunion, Dee, the daughter accompanying along with a gentleman who is her boyfriend or soon to be husband. As soon as, the mother saw her daughter Dee, she was in shocked to see her daughter had changed dramatically by dresses with flashy clothing and later find out her name had been changed as well.
2. When we have a first-person narrator, we have to decide if she is reliable or unreliable. Do you trust this narrator? Why or why not?
I believe that the writer told the …show more content…
Dee the daughter believes that she understands the history about the quilt, when in fact she is actually clueless. Dee wanted to display the quilt as a piece of history on the wall. During that time, the mother believes that Maggie ought to have the quilt as opposed to Dee. Maggie, the other daughter stayed at home and that she has a better understanding of the quilt, which was, more than a piece of art to the mother. Dee believes that her mother and Maggie are clueless about family heritage, when in fact that is it Dee herself who is inform about