2. When we have a first-person narrator, we have to decide if she is reliable or unreliable. Do you trust this narrator? Why or why not? I trust the narrator because she tells the story from her point of view and how she viewed things that she has experienced in her life. No other person can capture or tell a story for another person for they did not truly experienced their life for them.
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What assumptions does the narrator have about her daughters? Do you agree? Why?
Maggie who was severely burned as a child is very shy and is insecure about her appearances. Maggie is jealous of her sister Dee because she thinks Dee has been given an easy life. Dee who is the oldest sister is more confident and believes she is better than the living in which she endured. Mama takes this as Dee is rejecting her origin and her heritage. I agree with Mama because throughout the story Dee shows that she is ungrateful, but I also think that mother is overprotective of Maggie. Maggie can be much stronger if she wants to and can speak her mind, but I believe that the mother shelters her too much to where Maggie never had a chance to speak up on her own. 4. How would the story be different if it were told from Dee/Wangero’s perspective? I believe Dee/Wangero would have told the story as though she was better than her mother and sister. She would have stated that her mother and sister were probably fools for the way they live and that they were crazy for not trying to do “better” as if they do not live a happy life, but the mother and Maggie are very much happy for the way they live. 5. Mama and Dee/Wangero have different ideas about personal development. What are they? What are the consequences of their differences? Mama believes as long as you grow as a person while still loving who you are is a great achievement in itself. She believes that you do not have to change who you are in order to be happy, yet one daughter does not understand this and disconnects from her family. Dee believes that you should not accept the lifestyle and name in which your oppressor has given you and that you should accept your true heritage such as an African American should accept and live by the ways that of an African. Dee/Wangero truly does not understand her heritage and therefore does not receive the quilts from her mother (who offered Dee the quilts before she went off to college). Instead the mother gives the quilts to Maggie who she knows will use them in her everyday uses for that what the quilts were made for. 6. Based on your answers to all of the above, offer your opinion of Mama’s decision to give the quilt to Maggie. I believe that the mother did right by choosing to give the quilts to Maggie instead of Dee. Dee does not really appreciate her heritage. She is too ashamed of where she comes from, yet Mama believes that Maggie will appreciate the quilts and use the quilts in her everyday uses for that what was the quilts was made for. 7. How does Walker define heritage? Walker defines heritage as a family background that one shall not be ashamed of. Dee being that she has basically gotten everything that her mother could give her, she is ashamed of where she comes from so she tries taking on a new heritage by changing her name and the way she dresses, yet the new heritages in which Dee claims is empty because she does truly understand the obstacles and battles in which her family had to overcome in order for her to have the lifestyle