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How Does Alice Walker Define Heritage

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In “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, she symbolizes heritage and the struggle of its definition and how it is portrayed as. Alice Walker is a renowned novelist, poet, and feminist was born in 1944, in Eaton Georgia. In “Everyday Use” the reader encounters an African American family living in a small home and struggling financially. Dee is a well-educated woman who understands the definition of heritage, but she does not comprehend her own heritage. Dee’s mother and sister do not have the same educated background, they understand where they come from and they are proud of their background. Through the use of quilts, a butter churner, and Dee’s metamorphosis, Walker exposes two distinct views of the meaning of heritage. The quilts are an intricate
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