Aunt Fay writes to her niece Alice in the hope of teaching her about Austen and her writing and what better way to do that than by direct reference to Austen’s most successful text, Pride and Prejudice? Weldon in turn helps the actual reader understand Pride and Prejudice by commenting on the characters’ behaviour and the plot by giving her personal opinion, as well as identifying typical language features and explaining why Austen is valued today. She expresses empathy for Mrs Bennet which encourages the reader to reconsider their own opinion Her use of first person language tells the reader that they are reading a biased opinion, but also helps the reader trust Weldon as she is speaking
Although realism seems to be most common throughout the story there is also a touch of naturalism throughout select passages. Naturalism throughout this story involves the reader in the social structure of Edna’s family and friends. Throughout the story Edna’s character seems to use naturalism because she wants to be extremely direct when she is explaining herself to her husband and friends. We also see this in the depiction of feminism throughout Edna’s character and her fight to do what she feels is right even when it is
She shows resentment towards Maggie and insults her intelligence. Dee has no respect for her culture nor understands the worth of family heirlooms that Mama cherishes as “Everyday Use.” Both Dee and Maggie cherish the quilt that represents a piece of family history but only one truly values the quilt for its worth. While waiting for Dee to arrive, Mama speaks of her yard as clean and like an extended living room. This indicates she takes pride in her yard and home. Upon her arrival home for a visit, Dee informs Mama and Maggie she now goes by the name Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo.
Flowers then encouraged Marguerite, “to listen carefully to what country people called mother wit.” which means a person needs more than just book smarts to be consider intelligent and to able to use that intelligence to survive in life; a person that has wits though life experiences can be more intelligent than people that just gain knowledge in only school books because the people with wits are more savvy from their social life experiences compare to people that live life educated only though book. Maya Angelou is telling this story because she wanted to teach the audience that a person with formal education by only books doesn’t equate to intelligence. She implies, that even some college professors are less intelligent and don’t have as much wit as to some country folks because, the country folks have learned important lessons in life that only life experiences can teach but books cannot teach these important life lessons, base on the passage she wrote, “That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors, to listen carefully to what country people called mother wit.” The story’s settings are important because it was part of U.S history, where blacks were look upon as second class citizens compare to whites. This was suggested in the passage where Marguerite complements her idol Mrs. Flowers whom is a black woman, by comparing her to a white woman,
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Dee is attractive, stylish, & well educated – with some apparently portrayed traits of selfishness, brashness and excessive confidence. Her sister Maggie on the other hand is a relatively timid, and quiet young woman. She hasn’t received any formal education like her sister but has learned a few traditional skills, like quilting, from the family. Dee believes the quilts shouldn’t be used for warmth, but for the preservation of her African-American cultural ideals. This way, she could display them in her home; much akin to museum pieces.
Growing up in the same environment does not always mean that siblings will grow to be the same person with the same values and beliefs. Alice Walker's short story "Everyday Use" is about the conflict that multi-generational families have with understanding the importance of identity and ancestry. The story focuses on the relationship between a mother and her two daughters, Dee and Maggie, over their grandmothers quilts. Unlike Mama, Dee is educated and is envied, Maggie, who was scarred in a house fire when she was little. Dee has returned from a long trip away from home and now determines her culture by the things she gathers from the house like the quilts and butter churn but in the end Maggie is the one with the right idea about her heritage.
She just trying to improve herself on a new day for black American. The conflict between the two daughter over who should rightfully own the quilts and how they should use them. They should appreciate for the dasher and quilts is based on love for people who made them and used them. It is clear from her ability to associate pieces of fabric in two quilts with the people whose clothes they had been cut from. These things are reality to Maggie and the mother, the part of some fantasy to Dee.
(3) Teachers, elders and adults in general. Why was the shopkeeper nicer to the author once he thought the older woman was her mother? (3) The shopkeeper was suddenly nice to the author once he thought the older woman was her mother because since the older woman didn't ignore her, and offered her to go first, the only thought that came to his mind was that she was her mother. Explain what is meant by the statement "we are the consumers of tomorrow" in the concluding sentence (4) When the author mentions this, she's saying that we're the ones raising the next generation, so we should notice the kids now, than ignore them in the future. Perhaps if the children now are treated nicely, then the generation they raise will be treated properly and then the trend will continue.
An In-Deep Understanding of “Mother Tongue” In the essay “Mother Tongue”, Amy Tan accomplishes in three things simultaneously: she appeals the audiences emotionally by providing the pictures of the experiences between her mother and her; she shows the struggle of cultural racism that her mother and she go through without pointing out directly; and she puts some odd things into the essay and make it expressive. Amy Tan’s essay is very successful because she writes in her personal and “easy to read” style. Without the special English she uses in her writing, we may not easily understand and accept her ideas. Tan writes about that she has grown up with using different kinds of English: the English she learned in school and she uses in public, and the English she uses in speaking with her mother, which is described as the “broken” English. Moreover it comes to her sense that language is not only a communication tool but also an essential thing in enabling individuals to define their identities.