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In Everyday Use why doesn't Dee want the quilts her mother offers her?
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In everyday use by Alice Walker dee and her mother fight over two quilts. what do the quilts symbolize?
The quilts in "Everyday Use" symbolize heritage, family roots, and tradition. They represent the connection to the past and the importance of honoring and preserving one's cultural legacy. The conflict over the quilts reflects the differing views on the significance of these cultural artifacts within the family.
Why does dee want the quilts in everyday use?
Dee wants the quilts to display in her home as a proud representation of her heritage. However, if it were not a fashionable thing, Dee would not even want the quilts, so in a way it is also a fashion statement more than about her need to capture her heritage.
In everyday use who gets the quilts?
In everyday use, family members who tend to get cold during the night also tend to get more quilts on their beds. Traditionally, the best and more artful quilts are saved to be used by guests as an expression of hospitality and honor.
What artifact from Everyday Use becomes a focal point for the family members' different views of their heritage?
A) the handmade quilts
In the short story Everyday Use by Alice Walker what artifact symbolizes Maggie's first triumph over Dee?
the quilts Apex
What materials in her mother's quilts does the speaker remember My mother pieced quilts?
gentle communion cotton, flannel nightgowns , wedding organdies, and dime store velvets.
Who has the quilts at the end of the story Everyday Use?
meggie get the quilt at the end of the story
Your Mother Pieced Quilts is a symbol poem?
yes
How does mama choose to resolve the conflict over the quilts In the story Everyday Use?
She takes the quilts from Dee and gives them to Maggie. In the story, "Everyday Use," Dee and Maggie had a conflict over the quilts. Mama resolved the conflict by taking the quilts from Dee and giving them to Maggie, who would love them, use them and hand them down to the next generation.
Everyday use what heirlooms did dee want that belonged to Maggie?
Two old quilts
What do the handmade quilts symbolize on everyday use?
The family members‘ differing views of their heritage :)
What do the handmade quilts symbolize in Everyday Use?
The family members' differing views of their heritage (apex)
