Everyday Use Story by Alice Walker Questions
Read Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” and answer the questions below that are geared toward helping youunderstand her narrative point of view and purpose. Offer specific support from the text.
1. What do you know about the mother of the story?
2. When we have a first-person narrator, we have to decide if she is reliable or unreliable. Do you trustthis narrator? Why or why not?
3. What assumptions does the narrator have about her daughters? Do you agree? Why?
4. How would the story be different if it were told from Dee/Wangero’s perspective?
5. Mama and Dee/Wangero have different ideas about personal development. What are they? What arethe consequences of their differences?
6. Based on your answers to all of the above, offer your opinion of Mama’s decision to give the quilt toMaggie.
7. How does Walker define heritage?
8. What is Walker’s purpose? What is the central problem she is addressing?
9. What is the theme of “Everyday Use?”
Reading:
Alice Walker “Everyday Use” (Reading Literature and Writing Argument Pearson Custom, 6th ed., 2017 )
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