She told her mother that she wanted to hang them up. As she was educated more and more, her feelings of hatred for poverty and ignorance grew intensely. The characters in the story focus a lot on African culture and heritage. First, there is Maggie, the young daughter who is shy, not attractive and is content with her culture and life. I personally like this short story and I would recommend it to others.
The mother doesn't disrespect any of them nor puts one higher than the other, she just simply identifies them as different. Johnson is a mother of two daughters, Dee and Maggie. Items like the worn benches, butter churn, and quilts are living testimonies to people long dead. Her eyes seemed stretched open, blazed open by the flames reflected in them. Through the eyes of Dee, one can see her egotistical nature.
Even though Dee is educated she doesn't know what the true meaning of heritage is. They appear to be round and dynamic characters throughout the story. Giving the fact that she is so out of touch with her background she wants to take every antique in her mothers home as if that is her still intact with her old roots. Dee shows them that she is the example of what they could be if they get away from all of this. Dee never accepted her place in life as an impoverished African-American girl in rural Georgia. As Dee leaves Mama and Maggie standing in a cloud of dust clutching their quilts, it is clear the idea of racial identity is complex and inherently both personal and political. The opening of the story is largely involved in characterizing Mrs.
Many African Americans struggle with keeping their culture alive in the United States. Family traditions are carry on and passed down from generations to generations everywhere all over the world. She narrates and you only see the story through her point of view. Dee is educated, worldly, and deeply determined, not generally allowing her desires to be thwarted. It shows that Mama believes her daughter is so much better than her that even her subconscious is trying to make her into the woman her daughter could be proud of.
Davis, Margot Anne Kelley, John O'Brien, Elaine Showalter, and Mary Helen Washington. In this case, Alice Walker gives us a twist where she makes us dislike Dee for being selfish, arrogant, superficial, and spiteful to her closest family members who she is ashamed of. Maggie tells her mother that Dee can have the quilts, but Mother stays firm and does not give Dee the quilts. To Mama and Maggie, however, the people you come from and who raised you matter more than a legacy you read about in books. She uses Dee as an example of a young woman who started to hate on her home at a very young age, and she uses that as motivation to make a better living for herself. I changed because I needed to.
One winter I knocked a bull calf straight in the brain between the eyes with a sledge hammer and had the meat hung up to chill before nightfall. Dee follows different rules of society and religion than…. Walker shows the importance of heritage through her extensive use of irony. Since Dee had been getting educated, Mama felt warmth in her heart when she finally gave Maggie more respect by giving her the quilt. She is of little money, in a small inexpensive home. She had been named Dee for her aunt and grandmother. During the wait, Mama remembers watching shows about a triumphant daughter who embodies her parents after her success.
She walks like a dog run over by a car as her mother describes it. Mama is a mother of two, Dee and Maggie. The main conflict of the story evolves when Dee visits her family and introduces her fiancé, with the intentions of not only visit her loved ones; as well to demonstrate her mother her superiority to her. My favorite line was when Mama took the quilt and gave it to Maggie no matter what Dee would of said. It is obvious that Maggie will not only need the quilts but will actually use them and not merely display them. She went out to the big city for college and has experienced much more than her mother and Maggie had ever.
Explanation 934 Words 3 Pages character--but seems to use them only for selfish purposes. Mama and Maggie live at home in a small run-down house. Because of this, Mama chooses Maggie over Dee to take the quilts, because Maggie shows more appreciation and knowledge of their culture and as she said in the story was involved in the making of those quilts whereas Dee had no part in. In contrary, Dee is pretty, educated and knows what she wants in life and wants to be something more than her family. Even with understanding that one daughter is completely different from the other, mama, strategically is able to display love and compassion for both.
In this story, Maggie is a fragile young woman, however a strong character that is opposite of her sister Dee, who underestimates Maggie for the person she is. However, it also symbolizes value in experience. I believe every one goes through a similar face in life because when we are small no child wants there parents to go our school especially if there are children with much more wealth and there parents dress like movie stars. When reading this story I felt anger for Dee, while for the narrator and Maggie I felt sympathy. Even though Mama did not fool me, I could easily make an argument against Dee. Mama then points out that Maggie has something Dee Wangero does not have. The reader learns that Dee was the type of child that had received everything that she wanted, while Maggie was the complete opposite.
Mama on the other hand doesn't understand why her daughters are so different. Please by the claims made and adding. She adopts a Ugandan name, Wangero, and style of dress. By carrying the quilts she claims to carry the heritage, however, she shuns the lifestyle of her family, which is of course a part of her heritage. My fat keeps me hot in zero weather. In the story, Dee is coming home to visit. Mama seems to switch her favoritism from Dee to Maggie and realizes that Dee is not the perfect child she had come to idolize her as being.