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Everyday Use

"" by Alice Walker is a short story about how people get caught up in the superficial value of material things, and the jealousy this desire causes. In this short story Dee, the eldest daughter, was always ashamed by the way she lived during her childhood years. As she was educated more and more, her feelings of hatred for poverty and ignorance grew intensely. After she finished college her abhorrent feelings grew immensely, and she tried to take advantage of those less educated than her.
Dee always hated the way she lived when she was being raised by her mother. Dee was obviously overjoyed when the house that she hated so much, was finally destroyed. "A look of concentration on her ...

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her mother recalls the urge Dee had to improve everything she could. Her mother said, "Dee wanted nice things. A yellow organdy dress to wear to her graduation from high school; black pumps to match a green suit she'd made form an old suit somebody gave me." Even though she knew her family couldn't afford "nice things" she had a burning desire for them. This desire made her take the time and effort to alter a suit her mother was given, into a nicer green suit.
Even while Dee was still enrolled in high school, she was trying to help make her mother and sister more educated. She would read to them relentlessly in a futile attempt to "improve" them. "She used to read to us without pity; forcing words, lies, other folks' habits...[while we sat] trapped and ignorant under her voice." She would riddle her mother and sister with knowledge they didn't seem to understand or care about. "[She] burned us with a lot of knowledge we didn't necessarily need to know." Dee was constantly ...

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Added: 7/12/2004 01:03:12 AM
Category: Book Reports
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