Everyday Use by Samir Huq https://padlet.com/213959/62nrjowlgqrl Samir Huq, Patrice Pamintuan, en-us 2019-01-24 16:50:52 UTC 2019-01-30 17:55:42 UTC hello@padlet.com 213959 https://padlet.com/213959/62nrjowlgqrl/wish/324030550 2019-01-24 17:14:01 UTC https://padlet.com/213959/62nrjowlgqrl/wish/324030550 Alice Walker's Background isaacgarc14 https://padlet.com/213959/62nrjowlgqrl/wish/324030610  
  • 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.
]]> 2019-01-24 17:14:08 UTC https://padlet.com/213959/62nrjowlgqrl/wish/324030610 Characters 213968 https://padlet.com/213959/62nrjowlgqrl/wish/324031241 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.
]]> 2019-01-24 17:15:12 UTC https://padlet.com/213959/62nrjowlgqrl/wish/324031241 Setting of the story 2138581 https://padlet.com/213959/62nrjowlgqrl/wish/324031736
  • 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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  • 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. 

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