My Family And The Perfect Family In Everyday Use By Alice Walker

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My family and the “Everyday Use” Family Everyone doesn’t have the perfect family. You can believe that your family is perfect but every family has their burdens. Alice Walker talks about this in “Everyday Use”, this is about a family whose faces problems, that are very common in a family. This family has a single mother and two daughters, which they firmly care about their heritage, but they can’t always see eye to eye. However, in “Everyday Use” My family and their family share, a know it all sibling, enduring hardships, and a hardworking mother. A Similarity that my family shares with the “Everyday use” family includes a know it all sibling. The eldest sibling, Dee or Wangero, thinks she thinks she knows everything about her name. When she …show more content…
The mother in the story, is willing to work hard and support her family. In the beginning of the story the mother kills a bull, “one winter I knocked a Bull straight in the head right between the eyes” (50). This show how the mother willing to kill a bull to provide for their family. This relates to my mother because my mother works every day to provide a house over our me and my sister heads, and she put food on the table my mom is very willing to take care of us. The mother in the story is a very manly woman as she should be if she is a single parent and supporting two kids. The mother’s states “I’m known for doing the man’s job” (56). This show how she known for doing the man’s job in her family. This relates to my mother because she must to do the man’s job in our family by working and taking care of us. When the girls were arguing in the story the mother willing was work out the situation that was going between them. “momma felt something and she took the quilts from dee and out them in Maggie laps” (59). This show that the momma is willing to work out whatever is going between the two sisters’. This relates to my mother because is determined to work out situation that me and my sister are arguing about, and show how hardworking to diffuse a problem in our

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