Characterization -"Everyday Use" by Alice Walker by Catherine Edmonds https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq Made with charm en-us 2021-01-17 20:46:15 UTC 2021-01-19 14:34:15 UTC hello@padlet.com a) Identify a character. b) Identify a character trait. c) Provide textual evidence, properly cited, as support. Be sure to sign your answers. catherine_edmonds https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1096198159 2021-01-17 20:51:26 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1096198159 For Dee, use a yellow sticky note. catherine_edmonds https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1096205445 2021-01-17 20:57:21 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1096205445 For the mother, use a blue sticky note. catherine_edmonds https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1096207371 2021-01-17 20:59:05 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1096207371 For Maggie, use a purple sticky note. catherine_edmonds https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1096207677 2021-01-17 20:59:23 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1096207677 Mother https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101175106 Ashamed of herself
“I am the way my daughter would want me to be: a hundred pounds lighter, my skin like an uncooked barley pancake. My hair glistens in the hot bright lights” (Walker 1)

Savannah]]> 2021-01-19 13:44:08 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101175106 The mother https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101178587 She is resilient. 
"I was always better at a man's job. I used to love to milk till I was hooked in the side in '49. Cows are soothing and slow and don't bother you, unless you try to milk them the wrong way" (Walker 2).

Elle]]> 2021-01-19 13:44:57 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101178587 Maggie https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101179740 generous
“‘She can have them Mama,’ she said, like somebody used to never winning anything, or having anything reserved for her. ‘I can ‘member Grandma Dee without the quilts’” (Walker 6)

Savannah]]> 2021-01-19 13:45:11 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101179740 a) Mother https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101183573 b) She is tough
c) In real life I am a large, big-boned woman with rough, man working hands.
(Pg.1. Paragraph 5)
-Chase]]> 2021-01-19 13:46:01 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101183573 Dee https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101189722 She is ashamed of her mother and family. 
"She wrote me once that no matter where we "choose" to live, she will manage to come see us. But she will never bring her friends" (Walker 2). 

Elle]]> 2021-01-19 13:47:26 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101189722 Maggie https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101192189 She is unassertive
“She has been like this, chin on chest, eyes on ground, feet in shuffle”  (Mother 9)
- Emily



]]> 2021-01-19 13:47:59 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101192189 Dee https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101195005 Boldness
"She was determined to stare down any disaster in her efforts."
(Pg.2. Paragraph 3)
-Chase]]> 2021-01-19 13:48:37 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101195005 Maggie https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101202380 Weak natured
""She can have them, Mama," she said, like somebody used to never winning anything, or having anything reserved for her."
(Pg.2. Paragraph 7)
-Chase

]]> 2021-01-19 13:50:12 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101202380 Maggie https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101204210 She doesn't have a big presence.
"her thin body enveloped in pink skirt and red blouse for me to know she's there, almost hidden by the door" (Walker 1).

Elle]]> 2021-01-19 13:50:33 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101204210 Mother https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101209366 Assertive
“with one foot raised in flight, with my head fumed in whichever way is farthest from them”
(Mother 6)
- Emily


]]> 2021-01-19 13:51:40 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101209366 Dee https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101226995 Prideful
"She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that 'no' is a word that the world never learned to say to her" (Walker 315)
brayan ]]> 2021-01-19 13:55:20 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101226995 Dee https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101236264 Dee is ostentatious, flashy in appearance: " A dress down to the ground, in this hot weather. A dress so loud it hurts my eyes. There are yellows and oranges enough to throw back the light of the sun" (Walker 3). 
- Anina ]]> 2021-01-19 13:57:15 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101236264 Mother https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101240963 she is willingly forgetful

""And who was she named after?" asked Wangero. "Her mother," I said, and saw Wangero was getting tired. "That's about as far back as I can trace it," I said. Though, in fact, I probably could have carried it back beyond the Civil War through the branches. "
(Walker, 3)

- Cullen]]> 2021-01-19 13:58:14 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101240963 Maggie https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101264690 Reserved
"She has been like this, chin on chest, eyes on ground, feet in shuffle, ever since the fire that burned the other house to the ground." (Walker 316)
brayan]]> 2021-01-19 14:03:00 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101264690 Mother https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101291222 Assertive
" I did something I never had done before: hugged Maggie to me, then dragged her on into room, snatched the quilts out of Miss Wagnero's hands and dumped them into Maggie's lap."( Walker 321)
brayan ]]> 2021-01-19 14:08:14 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101291222 Dee https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101319489 Confident 
"“She put on some sunglasses that hid everything above the tip of her nose and chin. (Dee)15
Emily


]]> 2021-01-19 14:13:34 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101319489 Mother https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101319604 She wishes her daughter, Dee, appreciated her.

The mother has a dream where she attends a talk-show with Dee. "Then we were on the stage and Dee is embracing me with tears in her eyes." after she wakes up she realizes this could never be true, emphasizing the fact that this scene is a dream.

-Sadie Aylesworth]]> 2021-01-19 14:13:35 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101319604 Maggie https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101342791 Dutiful. Maggie is not driven by desire or hidden agendas; she does what she can to help:
" I will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yesterday afternoon". 

-Anina]]> 2021-01-19 14:18:08 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101342791 Dee https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101345798 Ignorant

Dee looks down upon her family and believes they don't understand their culture. In reality, Dee is the one who is lost and doesn't understand her culture. She has given herself a new name and forsaken her family's traditions. As she leaves her family at the end of the story she tells Maggie, "You just don't understand(your heritage)."

-Sadie Aylesworth]]> 2021-01-19 14:18:43 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101345798 Maggie https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101368459 Generous

Dee asks the mother if she can have the family quilts already promised to Maggie.  Maggie says "She can have them Mama," in response to Dee's begging.

-Sadie Aylesworth]]> 2021-01-19 14:22:56 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101368459 Dee https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101416880 Dee is decisive

" "She's dead," Wangero said. "I couldn't bear it any longer, being named after the people who oppress me." "
(Walker 3)

- Cullen]]> 2021-01-19 14:32:00 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101416880 Dee https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101421471 Dee has "book-smarts": 
"But that was before we raised money, the church and me, to send her to Augusta to school" (Walker 2) 
- Anina]]> 2021-01-19 14:32:51 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_edmonds/8vteekdhpeeuy9cq/wish/1101421471