For this paper I wanted to reflect on the knowledge that I have attained while in this course and share a few of the reading that I have enjoyed. With each topic more complex than the other, I am able to broaden my intellect in literature. The topics that I have chosen to add to my paper are marginalized writing, postmodernism, modernism, the elements of poetry and realism. The stories I will focus on are: “Editha”, “Mother to Son”, “Everyday Use”, “Entropy” and “The Love Story of J. Alfred Prufrock”.
In “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker is a story about tension among two sisters and their mother working to bring them together. The marginalized elements of oppression, tradition and cultural tensions. The oppression in the story is how Dee treats her sister Maggie. She treats as though she is an imbecile. Dee wanted to take quilts from the home and felt that she would take better care of them than Maggie. Mama told her that the quilts were for day use as a tradition to the family. Mama taught Maggie to make quilts as she had been taught, continuing the oral tradition and passing it to the future generations. This is also important with Dee’s name, as Mama shares that she has the name of her grandmother and also …show more content…
This story meets the elements of postmodernism with the parodies, abandon verisimilitude and consumer culture. Pynchon utilizes the parody from the bible as Castillo and Auden lives in Eden, a space they have created. He also use the bible parody for the bird that Castillo is attempting to resurrect in three days. The culture of that time was that the world was ending and Meatball lived as such. Hence hosting the lease-breaking party. Callisto and Auden lived in an alternative world within their apartment, this is abandoned
In “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker is a story about tension among two sisters and their mother working to bring them together. The marginalized elements of oppression, tradition and cultural tensions. The oppression in the story is how Dee treats her sister Maggie. She treats as though she is an imbecile. Dee wanted to take quilts from the home and felt that she would take better care of them than Maggie. Mama told her that the quilts were for day use as a tradition to the family. Mama taught Maggie to make quilts as she had been taught, continuing the oral tradition and passing it to the future generations. This is also important with Dee’s name, as Mama shares that she has the name of her grandmother and also …show more content…
This story meets the elements of postmodernism with the parodies, abandon verisimilitude and consumer culture. Pynchon utilizes the parody from the bible as Castillo and Auden lives in Eden, a space they have created. He also use the bible parody for the bird that Castillo is attempting to resurrect in three days. The culture of that time was that the world was ending and Meatball lived as such. Hence hosting the lease-breaking party. Callisto and Auden lived in an alternative world within their apartment, this is abandoned