Everyday Use

The Quilts and Dee in occasional Use In her story Everyday Use Alice Walker points out that comfortablenesss are heritage of African- American family. The quilts themselves are inseparable from the culture they arose and carry the entire familys history with it. Dee (Wangero), Mrs. Johnsons first daughter, was born with light skin, bewitching and bright. Maggie, her sister, is shy, slow and uneducated . However, Maggie inherits the most valuable skill in her family she knows how to quilt, non Dee. When Dee goes away to Augusto for college, Mrs. Johnson had offered Dee the quilts but she turns them down, I had offered Dee a quilt when she went away for college. Then she had told me they were old-fashioned, out of style. After educated in school, she intentionally comes back to collect the quilts, the heritage of her family, what she thinks they should belong to her. despite of her education, Dee has wrongly valued the worthiness of the quilts for their financial value of capital and their aesthetics. Dee looks at the quilts as invaluable artifacts But they are priceless! she said. She wants to posses them because of the value of money in them, not priceless of the importee to her family history. She knows also that the longer she keeps the quilts intact the more money they exit grow. She does not realize the true value in those quilts; they were make of pieces of clothing that belonged to different family members generation, scraps of dresses nanna Dee has worn fifty and more year ago.

Bits and pieces of grandad Jarrells paisley shirts. And 2 one teeny faded blue piece,…that was from Great Grandpa Ezras uniform that he wore in the Civil contend . Dee has interpreted the priceless meaning of those pieces for the money but not for the irreplaceable history of her... If you want to get a bountiful essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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