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She has published a number of novels, poetry collections, and short-story writings, with her most famous literary work being The Color Purple.

Born in 1944 in Georgia, the eighth child in a family of poor sharecroppers, Alice Walker began her writing career in the late 1960’s.

A writer who often explores feminist and anti-racist themes, she has also published several collections of essays that concentrated on black women’s struggle for dignity and survival in a sexist and racist society.

In her writings, she describes her experiences and involvements in the civil rights movement, as well as the journeys she has traveled.

In most of her work, she themes the resiliency of the human spirit.

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The short story starts out in the family’s back lawn.

The setting of "Everyday Use" is in rural Georgia in the early 1970s when the Black Nationalist Movement emerged.

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Mama: The narrator of the story. Mama describes herself as a big-boned woman with hands that are rough from years of physical labor. She has been both a mother and father figure to her two daughters. Poor and uneducated, she was not given the opportunity to break out of her rural life.

Maggie: The shy, retiring daughter who lives with Mama. Burned in a house fire as a young girl, Maggie lacks confidence and shuffles when she walks, often hanging in the background when there are other people around.

Dee: Mama’s older daughter, who has renamed herself Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo.

Hakim-A-Barber: Dee’s boyfriend or, possibly, husband. Hakim-a-barber is a Black Muslim whom Mama humorously refers to as Asalamalakim.

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Viewing a story from a POV will allow you to see concepts more clearer, in a way that we are experiencing a story through the characters eyes.

In this story, through POV, we are able to contrast what's happening around the characters and to understand how they think.

The author uses first person point of view to enable the readers to fully grasp the many emotions and viewpoints of the narrator.