Diphtheria In Alice Walker's Everyday Use

After Dee left and never came back, Maggie got married; it was ten years down the road when Dee was trying to get in contact with Maggie and their mom. Little did she know that their mom passed away about two and half years later after she left? Maggie wanted to tell Dee but she never knew how to get in contact so she just never tried to find her. Maggie always thought that the day Dee left and never came back was just her way of saying that she wants nothing to do with them. After their mom and passed away Maggie had her own family of three, they heard about their Aunt Maggie sometime but not often. After Maggie left her had two children, one that died because of a horrible sickness called Diphtheria that had no cure at the time. Of course Maggie always wondered if Dee still had the quilts. One day in late September Maggie decides to write a letter to Dee using the last known address she had for her. About a week into …show more content…
Then she asked if it would be okay Dee and her family could come see Maggie one holiday. Maggie began to write but she did not know what she was going to write. So she started off the same way. Maggie started to tell Maggie about her three children Harvey David, Joyce Mattie, Jessie Peter, about how good they were doing about where they live now. She began to tell Dee about how much things have change back home since she left. Dee talked other family about their Aunt Maggie coming for Christmas, and they were all for it. So she told Maggie that she could come for Christmas for a while; the letter was almost ending when she decide that she should tell her about their mom. So she started a new paragraph tell her about their mom getting sick and passing away, and then she sent the