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"I will wait for her in the yard that Maggie made so clean"

This gives us some information about where they are in that time

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"A yard like this is more

comfortable than most people know. It is not just a yard. It is like an extended living room . . . anyone can come and sit and

look up into the elm tree and wait for the breezes that never come inside the house."

This quote describes the atmosphere and vibe of the house, which is where the story takes place.

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¨There are no real windows, just some holes cutting the sides, like the portholes in a ship, but not round and square, with rowhide holding the shutters up on the outside.¨ This quote describes that this family might not have the most money, because the house they described is not a regular house you would see everyday.

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"But that was before we raised money, the church and me, to send her to Augusta to school." This gives away the town that they are located in, which is in Georgia.

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'“The truth is,” I said, “I promised to give them quilts to Maggie, for when she marries John Thomas.” She gasped like a bee had stung her. “Maggie can’t appreciate these quilts!” she said. “She’d probably be backward enough to put them to everyday use.” “I reckon she would,” I said. “God knows I been saving ’em for long enough with nobody using ’em. I hope she will!” I didn’t want to bring up how I had offered Dee (Wangero) a quilt when she went away to college. Then she had told they were old-fashioned, out of style." This quote from the story comprised of a dialogue highlights the main conflict of this passage, the conflict between Dee and Mama/Maggie. This quote is at the climax of our story where Dee and Mama argue.

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But that was before we raised money, the church and me, to send her to Augusta
to school.

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In "Everyday Use" the setting of the story is in a country/farm style area.  In the story it states, "One winter night I knocked a bull calf straight in the brain between the eyes with a sledge hammer and had the meat hung up before nightfall." This adds to the setting because it is not very common for someone to find a bull and hang up its meat unless you live in a more rural far out area. For example a place like a farm would be what I infer from this sentence.

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The first line of the story states "I will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yesterday afternoon." This shows that they are in some sort of front yard, most likely the front yard of their house.

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"I will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yesterday afternoon."

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"To send her to Augusta to School"

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I have deliberately turned my back on the house. It is three rooms, just like the one that burned, except the roof is tin;

they don’t make shingle roofs anymore. There are no real windows, just some holes cut in the sides, like the portholes in

a ship, but not round and not square, with rawhide holding the shutters up on the outside. This house is in a pasture

too, like the other one.

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" I will wait in the yard, maggie and I made so clean"

This shows were they are talking, and standing around

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"I have deliberately turned my back on the house. It is three rooms, just like the one that burned, except the roof is tin;
they don’t make shingle roofs anymore. There are no real windows, just some holes cut in the sides, like the portholes in
a ship, but not round and not square, with rawhide holding the shutters up on the outside. This house is in a pasture
too, like the other one" I chos

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"It is three rooms, just like the one that burned, except the roof is tin; they don't make shingle roofs anymore. There are no real Windows, just some holes cut in the sides, like the portholes and a ship, but not round and not square, with rawhide holding the shutters up on the outside. This house is in a pasture to like the other one."

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"These are all the pieces of dresses that Grandma used to wear. She did all the stitching by hand"-Dee
In this quote she is talking about the quilt. It shows that since it is from a family member that passed away, the quilt is a symbol of reverence and importance.

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"anyone can come and sit and look up into the elm tree and wait for the breezes that never come inside the house"

this quote shows an atmosphere and description of the location so the reader can picture the setting

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" she thinks her sister has held life always in one palm of her hand, that "no" is a word the world never learned to say to her"

She thinks her sister thinks the world revolves around her

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"When the hard clay is

swept clean as a oor and the ne sand around the edges lined with tiny, irregular grooves, anyone can come and sit and

look up into the elm tree and wait for the breezes that never come inside the house. "

I chose this because this is describing the setting of the story as it shows that they are in a yard outside of the house.

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¨Always too busy: feeding the cattle, fixing the fences, putting up salt-lick shelters, throwing
down hay.¨

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This reveals the location of where the story takes place

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  Vinny layne                     "maggie will be nervous till her sister goes" this is explaining the unhealthy relationship between the sisters. 

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  Vinny layne                     "maggie will be nervous till her sister goes" this is explaining the unhealthy relationship between the sisters. 

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¨Always too busy: feeding the cattle, fixing the fences, putting up salt-lick shelters, throwing
down hay.¨

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In everyday use, we know that Maggie is in the house because "she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scars"

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In everyday use, we know that Maggie is in the house because "she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scars"

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"Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn
scars down her arms and legs, eying her sister with a mixture of envy and awe."

This shows that there

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It has three rooms just like the one that burned down and the roof it tin there are no real windows just some holes cut in the sides the house is in a pasture to like the other one

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"Out of a dar

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"Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn
scars down her arms and legs, eying her sister with a mixture of envy and awe."

This shows that there is some type of anger very early on in the story.

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"I will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yesterday afternoon. A yard like this is more comfortable than most people know."
This sets a view of where the story starts off.

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"A yard like this is more comfortable than most people know. It is not just a yard. It is like an extended living room. When the hard clay is swept clean as a oor and the ne sand around the edges lined with tiny, irregular grooves, anyone can come and sit and look up into the elm tree and wait for the breezes that never come inside the house." This quote sets up the feeling and look of the backyard, which is not a major area of the story. It shows that they are not in a city area. What makes it important is the fact that it is described by Mama (who probably shares a similar opinion as Maggie ), this means that they value the house. Which is an important topic in the central conflict of this story.

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"Maggie will be nervous till her sister goes" This shows how Maggie feels about the relationship between Maggie and her sister.

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"maggie will be nervous till her sister goes"

this is showing an unstable relationship with her sister

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"I am the way my daughter would want me to be: a hundred pounds lighter, my skin like an uncooked barely pancake."

This shows that there is conflict in how the the mother and daughter sees it.

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I never knew how lovely these benches are. You can feel the rump prints." This gives it an atmosphere of warmth.

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I never knew how lovely these benches are. You can feel the rump prints." This gives it an atmosphere of warmth.

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“Maggie can’t appreciate these quilts!” she said. “She’d probably be backward enough to put them to everyday use.” “I reckon she would,” I said. “God knows I been saving ’em for long enough with nobody using ’em. I hope she will!”

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The line "She has been like this, chin on chest, eyes on ground, feet in shuffle, ever since the re that burned the other house to the ground" shows that in the past their house burned down and this has caused Maggie to change as a person.

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¨Dee is lighter than Maggie

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"I will wait for her in the yard"
This reveals where the story takes place.

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“Maggie can’t appreciate these quilts!” she said. “She’d probably be backward enough to put them to everyday use.”

“I reckon she would,” I said. “God knows I been saving ’em for long enough with nobody using ’em. I hope she will!” I

didn’t want to bring up how I had oered Dee (Wangero) a quilt when she went away to college. Then she had told they

were old-fashioned, out of style.

“But they’re priceless!” she was saying now, furiously; for she has a temper. “Maggie would put them on the bed and in

ve years they’d be in rags. Less than that!”

“She can always make some more,” I said. “Maggie knows how to quilt.”

Dee (Wangero) looked at me with hatred. “You just will not understand. The point is these quilts, these quilts!”

“Well,” I said, stumped. “What would you do with them?” (dee vs mama. It shows key parts of Dee´s character being clingy to the past and wanting to preserve them and possibly a hidden jealousy of maggie.)

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"I can work outside all day, breaking ice to get water for washing; I can eat pork liver cooked over the open re minutes after it comes steaming from the hog. 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." This quote by mama shows that they live in a more rural are since being out on a farm and being able to cook, clean and take care of yourself is not something that an everyday women or man can do. On top of that it can show that we are dealing with some place colder in temperature sd mama says she has to break ice.

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"A yellow organdy dress to wear to her graduation from high school; black pumps to match a green suit she’d made from an old suit somebody gave me. She was determined to stare down any disaster in her efforts"

this quote shows Dee was materialistic and has an attitude about getting what she wants

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"She looked at her sister with something like fear but she wasn't mad at her. This was Maggie's portion... I did something I never done before: hug Maggie to me, then dragged her on into the room, snatched the quilts out of Miss Wangero’s hands and dumped them into Maggie's lap."

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"Out of a dark and soft-seated limousine I ushered into a bright room filled with many people."

Mama says this when she is describing her dream.

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"This house is in a pasture too..." This shows us that they live in a grassy area.

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¨ Dee is nicer than Maggie, with nicer hair and a figure.¨ This is a conflict because this tells you that mom has favorites, and that Dee is being described as almost growing up too fast.

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“Come out into the yard,"

This quote is telling us that they live on a open area of land.

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"my skin like an uncooked barely pancake" this was a symbol for how mama thought her daughters wanted her to be white and how much easier they would have it if they were the perfect white family at that time

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"my skin like an uncooked barely pancake" this was a symbol for how mama thought her daughters wanted her to be white and how much easier they would have it if they were the perfect white family at that time

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“When I looked at her like that something hit me in the top of my head and ran down to the soles of my feet. Just like when I'm in church and the spirit of God touches me and I get happy and shout.”

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Maggie will be nervous until her sister goes she will stand homely and ashamed of her burn scars and eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe she thinks her sister had everything in the palm of her hand and the word no was a word nobody learned to say to her

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"I couldn't bear it any longer, being named after the people who oppress me." This response in the dialogue created some sort of confusion/conflict in regards to Dee's identity between Dee and Ma.

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"Maggie by now was standing in the door"

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"Maggie by now was standing in the door"

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This shows setting because it tells you Maggie is inside of the house.

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Maggie’s brain is like an elephant’s,”

Wangero said this to mock Maggie. And showing her idea was not smart.

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"she wrote me once that no matter where we lived she would come see us"

The house is a big symbol, because many memories are around it

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Mama is voicing a negative opinion

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“Well,” I say. “Dee.”

“No, Mama,” she says. “Not ‘Dee,’ Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo!”

“What happened to ‘Dee’?” I wanted to know.

“She’s dead,” Wangero said. “I couldn’t bear it any longer, being named after the people who oppress me.”  (symbolizes Dee´s yearning for freedom and her moving away from her family and getting more independence)

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"Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn
scars down her arms and legs, eying her sister with a mixture of envy and awe."

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Mama is voicing a negative opinion about dee

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"This house is in a pasture too..." This tells the reader that they live in a grassy area.

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“Uhnnnh,” I heard Maggie say, This quote again by mama shows that maggie is very displeased by what is happening. However maggie only starts to whine when dee appears so we can make the inference that dee and maggie though sister dont have the closest relationship.

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In Everyday Use the conflict mainly involves both Maggie and Dee. The two sisters are completely opposites and do not share a close bond. Maggie is more like her mother and gets along with her better rather than Dee does with Mama. It seems like Maggie feels insecure and different around Dee. For example, it states, "Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe." This sentence clearly shows that they are not close and there is some tension between Maggie and Dee.

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"Maggie cannot appreciate these quilts" There is a fight when Wangero wants to take the quilts but mama says they belong to Maggie. Maggie really wanted and was promised the quilts but when Wangero cant have them she starts attacking Maggie and her intelligence.

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“Why don’t you take one or two of the others?” I asked. “These old things was just done by me and Big Dee from some tops your grandma pieced before she died.¨
This quote shows how the quilts symbolize their family heritage passed down through quilting.

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One conflict quote in everyday use is "“Maggie can’t appreciate these quilts!” she said." This is in an argument between the narrator (Mama) and her daughter, Dee. 

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One conflict quote in everyday use is "“Maggie can’t appreciate these quilts!” she said." This is in an argument between the narrator (Mama) and her daughter, Dee. 

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Dee asked Mama if she could have some of their family quilts which were made by their relatives, but Mama planned to give them to Maggie, so Mama took them from Dee and gave them to Maggie and got Dee upset.

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"my skin like an uncooked barely pancake" this was a symbol for how mama thought her daughters wanted her to be white"

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"my skin like an uncooked barely pancake" this was a symbol for how mama thought her daughters wanted her to be white"

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"Out came Wangero with two quilts. They had been pieced by Grandma Dee and then Big
Dee and me had hung them on the quilt frames on the front porch and quilted them."

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"Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn
scars down her arms and legs, eying her sister with a mixture of envy and awe."
This shows the conflict that is within the character.

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The quilt represent the family's heritage.

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"She deliberately turned her back on the house"

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"She deliberately turned her back on the house"

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This shows symbolism because it is explaining how she is turning her back on the family and leaving.

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“Maggie can’t appreciate these quilts!”

This is showing how the quilts symbolizes family not being put to everyday use.

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"I used to think she hated Maggie too. But that was before we raised money, the church and me, to send her to Augusta

to school."

This quote shows the conflict between Maggie and Dee.

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In everyday use are the quilts. They symbolize the bonds between the different generations. A quote that has to do with the symbol of quilts is when Dee yells, " “But they’re priceless!”

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“Why don’t you take one or two of the others?” I asked. “These old things was just done by me and Big Dee from some tops your grandma pieced before she died.¨ This quote shows how quilting was in their family's heritage. It symbolizes their heritage throughout there family.

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“What happened to ‘Dee’?” I wanted to know. This quote by mama shows that Dee has changed her name which is showing that she is moving on from the family. Once she was able to go to the boarding school she (dee) changed how she acted and started to let go of old traditions.

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"Out came Wangero with two quilts. They had been pieced by Grandma Dee and then Big

Dee and me had hung them on the quilt frames on the front porch and quilted them. One was in the Lone Star pattern.

The other was Walk Around the Mountain. In both of them were scraps of dresses Grandma Dee had worn fifty and

more years ago. "

This quote shows how the quilts symbolize the family's heritage.

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Maggie would put them on the bed and in five years they'd be in rags. Less than that!"

Dee says this when she comes back and is claiming a bunch of family heirlooms for herself.

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when dee came to visit she had such a interest in the family antiques like the butter churner, the chairs in the kitchen, and the thing that she wanted most to take with her were her grandmothers quilts and when her mom said n o they were promised to Maggie she was upset but when dee went away to college her mom asked her if she wanted them she said they were old fashion and out of style

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"You just will not understand. The point is these quilts, these quilts!" this line shows that these quilts were important and had some sore of sentimental meaning to them.

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The quilts posed as a symbol to me in the story. Dee saw the quilts as objects that were valuable to show off or sell, whereas Mama didn't see them for their price, she saw them for their purpose.

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The quilts seemed to be very important both to Dee and Maggie. They symbolized the importance of them. In the story it states, " You just will not understand. The point is these quilts, these quilts." Dee argues with her mom about how important the quilts were to her. They quilts were a symbol of important to Dee.

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"Dee wanted nice things. A yellow organdy dress to wear to her graduation from school..." This can be inferred as a personal symbol in the sense that, compared to her family, Dee just had finer taste.

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"Sometimes I dream a dream in which Dee and I are suddenly brought together on a TV program of this sort. Out of a dark and soft-seated limousine I am ushered into a bright room lled with many people. There I meet a smiling, gray, sporty man like Johnny Carson who shakes my hand and tells me what a ne girl I have. Then we are on the stage and Dee is embracing me with tears in her eyes. She pins on my dress a large orchid, even though she has told me once that she thinks orchids are tacky owers." There are a few examples of personal symbols like with the orchid being something that Dee doesn't like but would still invision on Mama

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I find this very important to the story because Dee is saying her new name she goes by is Wangero and doesn't want her name to be Dee anymore because it associates with her family.