In “Everyday Use,” Alice Walker tells a story of a mother who does the best she can to raise her 2 daughters in the south at a time where it was necessary to try to instill her culture and her heritage in their lives. She had a very rocky relationship with them. The daughters grow up to be two different individual with each embrace what they think is important to their well being and their identity. One grows to be well educated and could not see her embrace and associated with the old life she knew. She even changes her name. She said: "I couldn't bear it any longer, being named after people who oppress me." (Walker 77) The mother clearly rejects the values embraced by the older sister who went to college and became very successful. On
