My Mother Pieced Quilts

The intriguing texts, “My Mother Pieced Quilts” by Teresa Palomo Acosta, and “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker contain two main ideas that explain how everyone’s culture has a direct influence on the way that we view the world. In other words, each of our backgrounds are full of experiences and knowledge, and we use what we know in every aspect in life. Specifically, Acosta expressed in her poem, “... how the thread darted in and out / galloping along the frayed edges, tucking them in / as you did us at night.” This passage is suggesting when the author remembers her mother mother making quilts, she remembers the memories that she associated with the quilts, making the quilts have a special meaning to her and her culture growing up. Additionally, Walker had a similar idea in her narrative about quilts but she includes another example where she writes,”... you could see where thumbs

She choose to continue to put it in use; this example shows how our past can influence our decision making. From all the points addressed, some may argue that it is solely our experiences outside of family that explain who we are, and our home life does not affect us, but gives us information and teaches us how to think. But it is all of our experiences, including what each person’s family taught them, that are our cultures, and our cultures are how we see things around us. To restate, our cultures are based of how we are raised and our culture grows and develops as have more experiences. We decide for ourselves what we become, and we use our previous knowledge to help us make choices that reflect who we are as individuals. The two stories tell us this in the sense of material objects: a quilt, and a butter churn. In conclusion, Teresa Palomo Acosta’s example of making quilts was from the poem, and the Alice Walker’s example was how the mother cherished her family’s handmade butter churn enough to use to use it everyday, shows that we see events of today with our memories