Her mother also told her this advice because she has to get married but she is rejecting every guy and is always complaining about it. She only sees whats bad in people and doesn't see the positive things about a person. What is she supposed to learn from this advice? On the 22nd of February Madame Johanna told Birdy, “ I am a women and a cousin to the king. Do you truly think I could be a horse trainer or a puppeteer or even be friends with a goat boy?
As she refuses to talk to anybody, the child created her own imaginary world being unwilling to look at the reality: “Why couldn't he understand that if he kept quiet, if all of them kept quiet, her parents would hear her and come to take her home?” (47). Through the story, her illusion state changes and tend to become a realistic one. Step by step she has no choice but to find in herself enough courage to accept and to surpass the situation. Nandana can be considered a hero because, as it painful, she finally accepts and begins to talk. Secondly, there's Nirmala, Nandana's grandmother, who was binged back to reality.
How are the following incidents from the past also reflected in the present actions: (a) Dee's hatred of the old house; (b) Dee's ability "to stare down any disaster"; (c) Maggie's burns from the fire; (d) the mother's having been "hooked in the side" while milking a cow; (e) Dee's refusal to accept a quilt wwhen she went away to college? The mother worked hard to provide for Dee and Maggie. She wasn't a dainty woman. She was always protective over Maggie. The mother and Maggie were closer than either of them were to Dee.
Eddie felt humiliated about where she was raised, she didn't want to be associated with the "scandals" that belonged to the shacks north of the creek. She believed that, since she grew up in the shacks, she was worth less than the next person. Edith was embarrassed by her drunken father, even though none of his actions were ever her fault. Her mother, a "hallelujah-shouting fool" who preached, but never actually went to church, was also a huge contributor to the way Eddie felt. With people tormenting her about her cousins who were teen moms, or her father who made a fool of his drunken self in public, the poor girl felt like nothing more than dirt, and she wanted to be thought of as flawless and beautiful.
The first thing I noticed while reading the story was how the two girls differed in appearance. with the way the mother describes Maggie she says of how Maggie is vary skinny like a small child, dark skinned and has burn scars down her arms and legs, from when her home had caught on fire and she had to be pulled out as her mother had explained, causing her to be ashamed of her looks. Her mother says “she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe.” Maggie’s scars have really affected the way she carries herself. She walks like a dog run over by a car as her mother describes it. Maggie is not only physically but mentally scarred.
Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” is a short story about heritage. A thriller in which heritage is seen in different ways. In “Everyday Use”, Walker tells a story about the conflict between a daughter and her family. Even though, the character of Mama is poorly educated, she still knows the meaning of love of her heritage. She wishes to teach this to her two daughters but times have changed and her daughters have difference views of what they think heritage is.
HH is obsessed by her, he schemes and plots to keep her to himself, and in the end she was never truly his to have. Everything HH goes through, puts her through and seeks to do revolve around this single girl. Lolita has schemed and plotted against the seemingly wise HH, eventually outsmarting him. Her first person account is not necessary in order to know that she was a strong female, who learned to manipulate situations at an early age. (Thesis) Dolores Haze, better known as HH has named her, Lolita, grew up in a broken home with a distant mother.
Chance Lompa English II Nov 23, 2010 Answer in Opposites Throughout the course of Toni Morrisons, Beloved, a shift occurs between mother and daughter, a complete reversal of roles if you will. Denver, starting out as a very dependent girl lacking purpose is transformed from the sheltered to the protector. She in the end must take care of and watch over her once strong and independent mother, Sethe who was at the beginning of the novel a strong and fiercely independent woman is reduced to a person more like a child herself than the daughter that looks after her. She has becomes completely dependent and lost. However, each in their own way matures along this journey, and gains a better understanding, or knowledge of their lives and themselves.
Abitay Dinara Dr. Ford D. Principles Literary Criticism EN 308 “Every day use” by Alice Walker In tis short story Alice Walker shows the way of living, of a family to represent the reader the way heritage is forgotten and, or ignored. The struggle reflects the characters contrasting ideas about their heritage and identity. Mama would also have to be the main character because she narrates the story. This story really about the mama. She has a two daughters.
Maggie selflessly insists that her sister can have the quilts (128). Maggie is also not a very strong character; instead she stays in the background most every situation that she can. For example, Dee and her friend rapidly approached the house in their car. “Maggie attempts to make a dash for the house…” but her mother quickly takes hold of her, making sure that she does not escape. Maggie was very uneasy around her sister; her mother tells her anxiousness in regard to Dee’s visitation: “Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe” (119).