Everyday Use by Alice Walker

I have read this story before in my high school years, but when I read it again, I understood the real meaning of it. This story takes place in the south in the '60s era in the revolution of the African American community with the civil rights movements. It is a story about the important of family and culture. The main protagonists are Dee, Maggie and the narrator, who is the mother.Dee, who is the older daughter, is the "Marcia" of the 2 sisters. She is the pretty one, with pretty hair and with a pretty body. she went to college in Augusta. Maggie, who is the younger sister, is the lanky one, the one who considers herself a misfit. About a decade in the story, her house gets burned and it burns Maggie a little bit, while Dee just sits around the in the backyard. The mother, is a woman who has worked very hard to have what she has in her life. When she finds out Dee is coming to visit, the mom is afraid her daughter is going to critique her house. On the other hand, when she visited, she decided to learn more about her African culture and even got married and wanted to have some of the things for her home. When Dee asks her mom if she can have the quilt her grandma made, Maggie saids that she can have it, but at the end, the mother refuses that she keeps it. When Dee leaves, she ignores her refusal of the quilt to her daugther and tells her sister Maggie that she has to learn about her own culture.