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She wrote the novel The Color Purple, for which she won the National Book Award for hardcover fiction, and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

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The central theme of the story concerns the way in which an individual understands his present life in relation to the traditions of his people and culture.

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In this version the mom is replaced by "dad" since their project had 2 boys and 2 girls 

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In this version the mom is replaced by "dad" since their project had 2 boys and 2 girls 

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12th Grade English Short Story Movie: Everyday Use by Alice Walker

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The Point of View is 1st person Mama is the narrator not only is she narrating the whole thing she's also a central character.

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Published: 1973 (as part of In Love and Trouble) The story was published inside a book full of short stories or “Love and Trouble”.
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Mama - The narrator of the story. Mama has a strong understanding of her heritage and she is a loving mother who is also poor and uneducated

Maggie - The shy, retiring daughter who lives with Mama.  She is good-hearted, kind, and dutiful.

Dee - Mama’s older daughter, who has renamed herself Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo. Dee is educated, worldly, and deeply determined, not generally allowing her desires to be thwarted.

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

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Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944 in Eaton, Georgia. She is currently 74 years old and she was an woman activist. She was married to Melvyn R. Leventhal. He is a Jewish civil rights lawyer. They had one daughter named Rebecca in 1969. Her faith and her being discriminated by whites gave her motivation to her write some of her novels such as her best seller “The Color Purple”.