Alice Walker was born in Georgia on February 9th 1944 and was the eighth child in her current family (Kerr). Her family was a poor one. When she grew up she married Melvyn Leventhal and later eventually divorced in 1976 she had two children first was a girl called Rebecca the second he had an abortion. She often argued with her daughter in public. He would also try to promote peace between blacks and whites through her books. Later received a Pulitzer reward and national book reward. In addition, later than that she was awarded a peace reward in 2010 (“Alice Walker biography”). She made many books one of her best books is called the color purple, it is about blacks and whites and the problems between them (Kerr). One of her not so famous book called everyday use is about two siblings who do not really get along well. In “Every Day Use” Alice Walker, Who has a lot in common with the main character, uses the mother and the oldest daughter to show conflict between two siblings. Alice has a lot in common with the main character. Such as when Alice was young, her brothers and her were playing cops and robbers and her brothers shot a BB gun, which ended up …show more content…
Near the end of the story, the older sister want two quilts that her mother has she wants to hang them up and have them look pretty. “Hang them,” she said. As if that was the only thing you could with quilts. (P106) However, her mother wants to give them to Maggie to use them like they we supposed to do then there is a whole argument about how Maggie will destroy them and that the quilts hold the memories of their grandmother and she does not want them to go away even. The mother ends up responding with that Maggie knows how to make quilts and that the memories will never fade. This show conflict between both sisters because the older sister does not want her to really have these that were promised to