Innocence, Experience, Culture, and Identity are the major words in everyone's life. These words teach a person the meaning of the life. Innocence is a lack of knowledge; most people do not learn till they experience matters. Experience is something that can help us to improve our life skills. We learn a lot from our experience, and the memories always stay with us either in a good way or bad way. Culture is our background by which we stay connected to our roots, mother language, traditions, rituals, food, art, etc. By culture, we get identified because our culture is our identity. Infrequently our names are symbolic of related to the family background or cultural identity. I am using many readings from the book today, which are: “Everyday
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But Dee wants to take them because she wants to frame them for the wall decoration. “Dee has . . . taken over a very Western attitude towards art and its material value" (185). Quilts were only pieces of ornamentation for her, not the family memories and the same feeling like Mama and Maggie has towards quilts. Dee's Grandmother, aunt, and Mama made those quilts together with pieces from everyone's clothes which symbolize family's togetherness. It has small parts of Grandfather's army's uniform. She was arguing with Mama because Mama kept quilts for Maggie for her dowry. Quilts keep warm our body. In this short story, Walker mention Quilts as love and warmness from the family. Even the grandparents passed away and her family members, but Mama and Maggie can feel them around by family quilts. In second story “The House on Mango Street,” it is about a young girl who has a dream to own a massive house. She moved to new house which was on the Mango Street with her parents. It was a low income and poor Latino neighborhood. She was not glad to see her new house because it was different from what she envision of owning a white colored house one day which symbolize purity, peace, innocence, and
But Dee wants to take them because she wants to frame them for the wall decoration. “Dee has . . . taken over a very Western attitude towards art and its material value" (185). Quilts were only pieces of ornamentation for her, not the family memories and the same feeling like Mama and Maggie has towards quilts. Dee's Grandmother, aunt, and Mama made those quilts together with pieces from everyone's clothes which symbolize family's togetherness. It has small parts of Grandfather's army's uniform. She was arguing with Mama because Mama kept quilts for Maggie for her dowry. Quilts keep warm our body. In this short story, Walker mention Quilts as love and warmness from the family. Even the grandparents passed away and her family members, but Mama and Maggie can feel them around by family quilts. In second story “The House on Mango Street,” it is about a young girl who has a dream to own a massive house. She moved to new house which was on the Mango Street with her parents. It was a low income and poor Latino neighborhood. She was not glad to see her new house because it was different from what she envision of owning a white colored house one day which symbolize purity, peace, innocence, and