Everyday Use

“Mom, please don’t force me to wear this! This is OUTDATED” “Dad, no one nowadays uses paper dictionary, just throw it away” Doesn’t these words seem familiar? Yes, some of the words are what some children might say to their parents. Just like the story, Everyday Use, Dee and Mama’s point of view differed in the usage of the quilts. Some children might have a different opinions of their parents, and some of the factors causing this phenomenon would probably be different educations, friends’ influence, and technology access.
First factor of different ideals might be the receive of different kinds of education. For example, in fifty years ago, Taiwan’s education was all based on the ability of testing, but schools after 2010s began to set a different standards, such as students with some excellent performance in extracurricular activities could also enter a good college. However, I saw an example in one of friend that his mother refused to let him join triathlon team training after school due to his poor score, but …show more content…
For instance, most of my classmates are playing online computer games. In a case, I know a friend of mine whose father strongly opposed to video games, but he continued to play and told his father of his ignorance in modern world’s fashion. This trend in playing online games also led to the other factor, technology.
The last factor is technology. Through entering 21th century, many different technologies like smart phones, I-pads, or computers becomes popular. These different facilities also brought us a more convenient life that unknown words could be looked up in electronic dictionaries and e-books also became used by people. One support evidence is that everyone in our class has own smartphones and one of my friend even reads e-books on his Kindle. Despite these convenience technologies, my mom often wanted me to look up words on the thick dictionaries instead of typing words in a dictionary