B. Rembert Professor Owens English 1101 1 September 2012 In Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use,” the story symbolizes the different perspectives of what heritage truly represents and the value of significant items. Sisters, Dee and Maggie, both strive for their Mama’s acceptance and love. Maggie, who is timid yet caring, envies her older sister. However, Dee feels quite different towards her sister. She shows resentment towards Maggie and insults her intelligence.
This description symbolizes her strengths when working on her plants. Because gardening is what makes Elisa strong, the Chrysanthemums represent her inner-self. Elisa knows her own strengths, “‘Yes. They’ll be strong this coming year.’ In her tone and on her face there was a little smugness” when she replies to her husband’s remark, “You’ve got a strong new crop coming” (Steinbeck 255); and prides herself with it. The fence that surrounds and protects her garden “from cattle and dogs and chickens” (Steinbeck 55) also describes her strength because it symbolizes a guard which Elisa puts up to protect her from a man bringing her down.
Harjo’s beliefs are shown when she visits New York to meet her newborn granddaughter. She tries to perform a sun ritual for her granddaughter so the sun can meet its new relative; however, it is a cloudy day and the buildings block her view of the sun. Harjo carries out the ceremony anyway because nature is a part of her faith and the “sacredness of life;” she takes the sun or nature with her even when it is not visible, just as Christians believe in God even though they cannot physically see Him (114). Kamps’ view of trees relates to her life directly; the tree cares for and houses birds just as she cares for her family. As her belief in nature deepened, her respect for it grew; she began to “like digging in the dirt instead of cursing each weed” in her garden (136).
Even though their situation seemed bleak, Elena felt that she should still carry out simple motherly duties, like celebrating her daughter’s birthday, to make Lina feel more secure. As her mother she felt it her responsibility to try and brighten up her daughter’s day in any way she could. By doing this Elena was trying to give Lina hope and maintain some semblance of normality as well as celebrate a milestone in her child’s life. Earlier on in the novel, Jonas contracts scurvy because of the lack of vitamins in his miniscule diet. Elena expresses motherly responsibilities and tries to nurture her son back to health.
Tamira Jones My inspiration Composition Everest University This woman is an inspiration to all because of her hardship and the things she have been through let me tell you why. I see her as an inspiration. She was born in 1867 in a poverty -stricken rural in Louisiana,She was an orphan at the age of seven. Being that Sarah needed to survive her and her oldest sister worked in the cotton fields of Delta, Vicksburg and Mississippi. As she grown to an older age of fourteen she was married and gave birth to her daughter,But as she seen her life getting a little brighter her husband had passed away.
In “What the Honey Meant,” Cindy Bosley describes what means to her. To others, honey is just something created by bees or the sweet stuff people put on a biscuit. For Cindy Bosley honey has a much deeper meaning. Like Bosley, I have something very dear to me that have a deeper meaning than to others. When Bosley sees the honey, it reminds her of the day her father abandoned her family.
In the stay “Everyday Use ”, by Alice Walker “momma” , who is named Mrs. Johnson is excited about her daughter Dee’s visit home. Dee is returning home to visit her mother and sister Maggie. Mama is a large big boned black woman with rough working hands. Maggie and mama have cleaned the yard and the house to try to impress Dee. Mama thought of Dee as a star.
I know this because of the nurturing of life with a season of monsoons and hell two times a year. This creator has followed the ideas of what is now know as the human G_D. Taking the ways of long days and months to have created this world. I find that a woman would have taken their time to make sure we are in her eyes. She as the creator has tried to put a touch of carefulness and torture in the layouts of the land.
Junior and elder 5. Ruled and ruler Tian * Heaven Li * Rituals or etiquette, acknowledging your superiors, conveys hierarchy * Things we do with each other * Big public things * Ren (jen) * Respect, compassion * Love you family * Out of love tell your daughter she wont be able to join military Native Americans’ Two Speeches Matrilineal Society * A society in which lineage, birthright and social classification are traced through the mother’s ancestry rather than the father’s * Indian society called meghalaya Shaman (Indian) * A person regarded as having acces to the world of good and evil spirits Sun Dance (indian) * Spiritual and physical
Palmer 2 According to Amy Tan, this is the relationship between the women in the picture: But see the white bands on their skirts? The white shoes? They are in mourning. My mother’s grandmother, known to the others as Divong the “The Replacement Wife,” has recently died. The women have come to this place, a Buddhist retreat, to perform yet another ceremony for Divong.