15-1 Alice Walker

Alice Walker was born in Georgia she was one of eight kids from a poverty stricken sharecropper’s family. Her parents supported her writing and after graduating top of her class she got a scholarship to go to college. Her most known work was the Color Purple which has been made into movies and plays. Everyday Use was a good story\that opens with the mother day dreaming of being on a talk show and meeting her daughter again. She wants her daughter to be like her thin, witty, and expressive. But in actually she is a heavy woman that does best at hard labor. She sees how important hard work is and doesn’t have time for fillies ‘She has two daughters Maggie and Dee Several years ago their home had burned down and Maggie one of the daughters hands and arms were burnt badly. Dee the other sister left and said she wouldn’t be back or bring her friends to the little house they lived in after the fire. Maggie feel like she is less of a person because of the way Dee treats her. Maggie see’s Dee as being very pretty and smart. But Dee is very snobby to her family when she returns she brings a man that she might be married too. Dee has changed her name to Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo because she thinks the name is better than the one she was born with. They start taking things from the house saying where they can use it in their home. She gathers quilts and other things. The quilts were to be Maggie’s handed down from the family. Dee says Maggie will just mess them up and they are not for everyday use. Dee sees the things as being something to be put into a museum and not something to use everyday. Maggie and Dee’s mother grabs the quilts from Dee and gives them back to Maggie; her mother knows that Maggie will take care of them and she will cherish and appreciate them.