Everyday Use Heritage
In this story “Everyday Use”, Alice Walker tells the story of a mother and her two daughters conflicting ideas about their identities and ethnicity. She epitomizes the different sides of heritage and culture in the characters of the three people with their different qualities and ideologies in life. The mother is a candid country woman who valued heritage and culture for its usefulness as well as its significance by living and doing simple things in life. She shows contempt for Dees materialistic approach to her heritage. Maggie is the shy, passive sister who is similar to her mother in her simple way of life and her way of approach to heritage.
Dee follows a materialistic and modern way of life where heritage and culture are valued …show more content…
Dee believes heritage is something from past which is framed or hung on walls as mere artistic reminders of her family history. I am an Indian and I am proud of my culture, traditions, and heritage.
America is a land of immigrants it gives the people living here the freedom to follow their respective culture, and traditions. If a person is ashamed of his/her ethnicity they are ashamed of their attitude towards it, and not towards its credibility.
This story typically centers on the mother’s stirring realization to Dee’s serious thought on traditions, culture and to Maggie’s great understanding of heritage. She begins to see Maggie in a different perspective and learn to appreciate her simplicity and goodness as compared to Dee’s cosmopolitan and ambitions. Walker tells us that a persons heritage should be a part of their culture from which it came and not a negligible thing to avoid. “A concentrated effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational, and economic legacies all of the things that quite literally make us who we are”, the saying by Steve Berry exactly suits this
Dee follows a materialistic and modern way of life where heritage and culture are valued …show more content…
Dee believes heritage is something from past which is framed or hung on walls as mere artistic reminders of her family history. I am an Indian and I am proud of my culture, traditions, and heritage.
America is a land of immigrants it gives the people living here the freedom to follow their respective culture, and traditions. If a person is ashamed of his/her ethnicity they are ashamed of their attitude towards it, and not towards its credibility.
This story typically centers on the mother’s stirring realization to Dee’s serious thought on traditions, culture and to Maggie’s great understanding of heritage. She begins to see Maggie in a different perspective and learn to appreciate her simplicity and goodness as compared to Dee’s cosmopolitan and ambitions. Walker tells us that a persons heritage should be a part of their culture from which it came and not a negligible thing to avoid. “A concentrated effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational, and economic legacies all of the things that quite literally make us who we are”, the saying by Steve Berry exactly suits this