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Alice Walker's Alice: A Narrative Fiction

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There really wasn't much she could say after all this mess had already taken place. A whirlwind of trouble had come to town. As she stood as still as a tree in the ground, a wave of horror crept down Alice’s spine. If only she had known then, it had only just begun… Alice was always full of life as a child, she'd run along the Edgebrook proudest assets the sunset beach. Long blonde hair flowing freely in the wind like a kite without a string. Sea blue eyes full of hope and a sense of freedom of which only a child can possess. She was always a tall child with rosy red cheeks and a smile as wide as the Nile. But as Alice grew older she had changed the challenges life had thrown at her had worn at her soul and stealing the genuine heartfelt …show more content…

Alice during tough times would often go to Amy for support which was Amy's strong suit. With short brown hair and a never-ending sense of stability and strength to Alice, she was the living embodiment of everything that she wished she was. Kind but fierce and strong but supportive. She was a short weak looking girl however almost everybody knew that she was not a person you would want to fight …show more content…

The house seemed huge to Alice at just the young age of 5. With beautiful blossoming blue roses growing all year round from countless and almost never-ending rose bushes. Nothing made Alice happier than to sit in her garden on her old creaky but the perfectly placed swing set overlooking the exhilarating view of her mothers well-groomed garden of which she took as much pride in as her appearance. It was a strange day, after all, the news of the move was rather spontaneous and that was the last thing her father was. A square predictable man who didn’t have a single adventurous bone in his body. Which often crossed her mind in passing as she seemed to not have much in common with him. Indeed she was everything he was not. But she brushed it off to the idea that maybe she was more her mum than

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His house was about as different to Jo’s house as a house could be; it reminded Sarah of her parents’ house. Jack’s mother and her mother probably bought their curtains from the same South Yarra decorator, flowers screen printed on silk, fluttered in the breeze. They probably went to the same dinner parties, to the same opera and ballet productions. The house, set back behind a high fence on a corner block was what her mother would call, substantial. A period home (Sarah had no idea which period) surrounded by a lush lawn and well established large trees – grey and ghost gums.

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Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” illustrates Dee’s struggle for identity by placing her quest for a new identity against her family’s desire for maintaining culture and heritage. In the beginning, the narrator, who is the mother of Dee, mentions some details about Dee; how she “...wanted nice things… She was determined to stare down any disaster in her efforts… At sixteen, she had a style of her own: and (she) knew what style was.” Providing evidence to the thesis, she was obviously trying exceptionally hard to find for herself a sense of identity. She wanted items her family couldn’t afford, so she worked hard to gain these, and she found a sense of identity from them, but it also pushed her farther away from her family.

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First of all, one of the many things that reveal Dee to the audience, is the characterization of her. Dee is disobedient. “She’s dead.” Wangero said. “I couldn’t bear it any longer being named after the people who oppress me.”

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The point of view in the story “Everyday Use,” by Alice Walker plays a big part. Throughout the story, one of Mama’s daughters came to visit. The way Mama and Maggie see her is not in a very pleasant way. In fact, they are scared to tell her no when it comes to anything. From Mama’s perspective Dee seems like this rude, stuck up, spoiled child because she had the opportunity to go out and expand her education, while Mama and Maggie continued to live their lives on the farm.

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Everyday Use is a tale of differences of generations and of classes. The narrator is an older black woman living a country life on the farm who speaks proudly of both her daughters, Dee and Maggie. Dee was the educated, beautiful, and extroverted daughter that everyone loved, and Maggie was slower, scar by fire, and introverted that stayed by her mother’s side and on the farm. When Dee comes home for a visit with her mother and sister there are three items that attract her attention and she wants to acquire the churn top and the dasher to the butter churn and finally the family quilts.

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The story tells the tale of the almost every black person I know origin story. From the mother who represents the strict black mom that loves her kids and well does anything to make sure they have the necessities they need. Dee the oldest child who was giving everything, from looks to education. Maggie, the youngest sister, was dealt a hard hand. She symbolizes the struggle that young black kids have to overcome to be successful in this country.

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In the short-story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, Dee is portrayed as a conformist. The author uses “a dress so loud it hurt my eyes” to show how the dress is so bright that Maggie could feel the warmth it radiates, “bracelets dangling and making noise” to show the amount of jewelry she was wearing (Walker 2). The details convey the idea that she is obsessed with fashion and new trends. This obsession affects her relationship with Maggie and her Mother because she believes that she is above them. When Dee was arguing with her mother about how she should get the quilts she states that her mother doesn’t know anything about heritage.

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Then later she becomes the perfect young woman in her mother’s eyes. Some people other than her mother “‘ did not find Mrs. Alice Liddell lacking intelligence. Some perhaps even found her a bit too intelligent”’(95). Alice had stepped into a new chapter in her life when she realized that she was a new and improved Alice, the girl she had been waiting for, for a long

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Separating from one’s true values may lead one to betray their own family and culture. In the short story Everyday Use a young woman who disregards her family inferiorly is faced with the conflict of self identity. The author reflects betrayal of family values through his exposure of heritage and education in the story. Heritage unveils the concept of who Dee is and the disconnection from her own shows her inadequacy to have one. Dee tries her best to stray away from the life she once had and went the extent of changing her name.

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Alice Walker the author of the Flowers”, was inspired to write this story because of the tragedy that has happened to multiple black Americans and how it has affected their human rights. This story describes scenery that may have happened around South America starting off with a girl named Myop, a ten-year old girl who explores the world around her, unaware of the secrets the world beyond holds. In the first paragraph, Alice Walker clearly emphasises Myops purity and young innocence with the quote “She skipped lightly from hen house to pigpen.” This demonstrates how happy Myop is in this setting, we can identify she feels safe here, “ She felt light and good in the warm sun.”

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In the short story “The Flowers”, Alice Walker sufficiently prepares the reader for the texts surprise ending while also displaying the gradual loss of Myop’s innocence. The author uses literary devices like imagery, setting, and diction to convey her overall theme of coming of age because of the awareness of society's behavior.     At the beguining of the story the author makes use of proper and necessary diction to create a euphoric and blissful aura. The character Myop “skipped lightly” while walker describes the harvests and how is causes “excited little tremors to run up her jaws.”. This is an introduction of the childlike innocence present in the main character.

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Alice Walker uses imagery and diction throughout her short story to tell the reader the meaning of “The Flowers”. The meaning of innocence lost and people growing up being changed by the harshness of reality. The author is able to use the imagery to show the difference between innocence and the loss of it. The setting is also used to show this as well.

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Transitional states of maturity can be challenged or championed by unexpected discoveries which can be confronting or provocative. This is explored through Alice Walker’s 1973 prose fiction, “The Flowers”, as the protagonist’s view on the world is transformed due to the personal zemblanic discovery made. The short story explores the themes of loss of innocence and death in order to address cultural indifference and the prejudice experienced by certain groups within society, which in turn causes individuals to be effected negatively. Walker hopes to evoke sense of political and social reflection in her audience, hoping that intimate discoveries of past inequity by her readers will ensure cultural equity maintains future momentum.

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