ada McCree
Fowler
Everyday use Essay
Multi-Cultural Literature 1
5 Oct. 2017 Everyday Use Essay Being told no is a powerful word to a spoiled child. Also experiencing a spoiled child never get told no can get very frustrating and annoying. Like siblings they all have different personalities. There is the quiet, loud goofy one, the smart one, and the spoiled does not take a no for an answer one. The one word a spoiled child never wants to hear is a no. they want yes to this and yes to that. However, that one day she or he gets told no it is a day that no one will never forget. A story so good would have to listen to all three versions of what happened. This story “Everyday …show more content…
She is not scared to look a white man in the eye when talking unlike her mother. Dee is the opposite of Maggie as her mother says,” Dee is lighter than Maggie, with nicer hair and fuller figure” (2). Dee stands out from her family she not quiet and not afraid to say what she has to say. She is a sassy girl that do not like the word no as Maggie complained, “she has held life always in the palm of one hand, that “no” is a word the world never learned to say to her” (1). Although everyone always thought she used to hate Maggie. They raised money to send her to school. She is the smart educated one in the house that no one likes very much because she is like a smart aleck. Dee wants nice things dresses with flavor and bright colors as you told from her mother’s prospective, ‘a dress down to the ground, in this hot weather. A dress so loud it hurt my eyes” (3). Dee does not want to get married unlike her sister Maggie. For the first day in life Dee lost a competition with Maggie was told no. Farrell say, “while Dee is certainly insensitive and selfish to a certain degree, she never less offers a view of heritage and a strategy for contemporary African American to cope with an oppressive society that is, in some ways, more valid than that offered by mama and …show more content…
He or she might see the mother as the hard working independent mother. The mother did not depend on no man she says in the story, “I can kill and clean hog as mercilessly as a man” (1). She could work all day if she wants to. She describes herself as a single mom who does not dress girly or care how she looks as she describes in the story “in real life I am a large woman with rough, man working hands. In the winter I wear flannel night gowns to bed and overalls during the day” (1). Her favorite daughter is Maggie who is getting married and living as a housewife. although her other daughter Dee very intelligent awesome body and could probably be a lawyer and very independent like her mother. She does not want a man and is very sassy never wants to hear the word no. in the story there were competitive argument over a couple of quilt. In the story Dee says, “” Maggie can’t appreciate these quilts! She’d probably be backwards enough to put them to everyday use” (6). Either way the mother gives Maggie the quilt and the mother feels a relief because it is a big turn. Like a new day because Dee was told no for the first time. Baker say, “Maggie’s role as a bearer of their heritage and Maggie, in receiving the quilts, smiles because she realizes that more than quilts have been conferred.” So being told no is
Fowler
Everyday use Essay
Multi-Cultural Literature 1
5 Oct. 2017 Everyday Use Essay Being told no is a powerful word to a spoiled child. Also experiencing a spoiled child never get told no can get very frustrating and annoying. Like siblings they all have different personalities. There is the quiet, loud goofy one, the smart one, and the spoiled does not take a no for an answer one. The one word a spoiled child never wants to hear is a no. they want yes to this and yes to that. However, that one day she or he gets told no it is a day that no one will never forget. A story so good would have to listen to all three versions of what happened. This story “Everyday …show more content…
She is not scared to look a white man in the eye when talking unlike her mother. Dee is the opposite of Maggie as her mother says,” Dee is lighter than Maggie, with nicer hair and fuller figure” (2). Dee stands out from her family she not quiet and not afraid to say what she has to say. She is a sassy girl that do not like the word no as Maggie complained, “she has held life always in the palm of one hand, that “no” is a word the world never learned to say to her” (1). Although everyone always thought she used to hate Maggie. They raised money to send her to school. She is the smart educated one in the house that no one likes very much because she is like a smart aleck. Dee wants nice things dresses with flavor and bright colors as you told from her mother’s prospective, ‘a dress down to the ground, in this hot weather. A dress so loud it hurt my eyes” (3). Dee does not want to get married unlike her sister Maggie. For the first day in life Dee lost a competition with Maggie was told no. Farrell say, “while Dee is certainly insensitive and selfish to a certain degree, she never less offers a view of heritage and a strategy for contemporary African American to cope with an oppressive society that is, in some ways, more valid than that offered by mama and …show more content…
He or she might see the mother as the hard working independent mother. The mother did not depend on no man she says in the story, “I can kill and clean hog as mercilessly as a man” (1). She could work all day if she wants to. She describes herself as a single mom who does not dress girly or care how she looks as she describes in the story “in real life I am a large woman with rough, man working hands. In the winter I wear flannel night gowns to bed and overalls during the day” (1). Her favorite daughter is Maggie who is getting married and living as a housewife. although her other daughter Dee very intelligent awesome body and could probably be a lawyer and very independent like her mother. She does not want a man and is very sassy never wants to hear the word no. in the story there were competitive argument over a couple of quilt. In the story Dee says, “” Maggie can’t appreciate these quilts! She’d probably be backwards enough to put them to everyday use” (6). Either way the mother gives Maggie the quilt and the mother feels a relief because it is a big turn. Like a new day because Dee was told no for the first time. Baker say, “Maggie’s role as a bearer of their heritage and Maggie, in receiving the quilts, smiles because she realizes that more than quilts have been conferred.” So being told no is