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Everyday Use 2
Title: Everyday Use 2
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1715 | Pages: 7.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Everyday Use 2
POWER AS EXPRESSED THROUGH ALICE WALKER'S WORDS IN EVERYDAY USE
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Alice Walker uses power throughout her stories in various forms. In her story, Everyday Use, the power of family, heritage, and culture are presented. The story is about a hardworking mother of two girls, Maggie and Dee. The mother does not have much in her simle life but she cherishes what is of importance in her life. A humble house and two daughters have brought …showed first 75 words of 1715 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1715 total…using the quilts, and the fate of those quilts, to make the point that art can only have meaning if it remains connected to the culture it sprang from. Her story itself is a good example: Walker didn't write it to be observed under a glass case, judged aesthetically, and sold to the highest bidder; she meant it to be questioned, to be explored, to be debated -- in short, to be put to "Everyday Use."
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