Summary of Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” is the story of a mother and her daughters. When the oldest daughter, Dee, wants a quilt that Mrs. Johnson has already given to her younger, plainer daughter, Maggie, the worth of something is put to the test. Dee comes home for a visit from college, with her new husband. Mrs. Johnson, who has always wished to have more of a connection with Dee, learns that her daughter has changed her name. When they go into the kitchen for something to drink, Dee gets up and starts packing the butter churn that her mother still uses.
Satisfied with the new name id given her, i sat back and cuddled up to the sleepy pup. Even with the small dogs in the back of the large truck barking, Princess Sofia felt safe the second she got in my hands and that hasn’t changed since. It’s going on the third year that I’ve had Princess Sofia, and I wouldn’t trade any of it for the world. In the beginning we had a few minor issues, introducing her to the other dogs in the house, getting her used to a leash. But all that comes with time and patience, something these dogs have never witnessed in their lives'.
They were restricted in what activities they could do. Mrs. Wright and Mrs. Mallard both have the same psychological process and share the same emotions. In their respective stories, they both feel stuck in their lives but the limitations brought on by their husbands. In their respective stories they both feel down, then happy, and sad again. They are both unhappy because their husbands trap them, then they are happy because they are free from their marriage.
I was always scared every year, she would turn on these songs and I knew I could do it. Everyone always loved the stuffing that I made with grandma. She taught me a lot about cooking when I was young. I wish I still could cook with her today. But she lives two hours away and doesn’t have a knee.
At the beginning of Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” the mother describes both of her daughters. Maggie is the plainer looking and dumber sister and Dee is the smarter and prettier one. While Maggie and the mother are at the house a car shows up with Dee and a strange man. Dee introduces him and tells them that she has changed her name to Wangero. After they eat dinner Dee asks the mother if she can have some quilts that her grandmother had knitted.
"I went to another wigwam, where they were also sitting round the fire, but the squaw laid a skin for me, and bid me sit down, and gave me some groundnuts, and bade me come again: and told me they would buy me, if they were able, and yet these were strangers I never saw before…" (Rowlandson, page 45, paragraph 3). Rowlandson not only saw changes around her, but also in herself. After three weeks of her captivity, she begins to eat and enjoy the food despite even her civilized preferences. "I found my stomach for want of something; and yet it was very hard to get down their filthy trash: but the third week, though I could think how formerly my stomach would turn against this or that, and I could starve and die before I could eat such things, yet they were sweet and savory to my taste…" (Rowlandson, page 44, paragraph 3). Both quotes from Rowlandson’s narrative support Rowlandson’s idea that life nothing is certain.
The mud has long been prized by pregnant women and children here as an antacid and source of calcium. But in places such as Cité Soleil, the oceanside slum where Charlene shares a two-room house with her baby, five siblings, and two unemployed parents, cookies made of dirt, salt, and vegetable shortening have become a regular meal” (National Geographic). They look a lot like pancakes or cookies. Recipes passed down from generations in Haiti. Women spend entire day making them.
Mary Maloney Characterization -Stay at home wife -Lives to please her husband -6 months pregnant -She is always sewing -"Like the perfect Wife" -Madly in love, she is like a sunbather soaking up his manliness and love. -The Perfect Couple -She becomes like a robot and walks to get the lamb and bangs it over her husbands head. -She gets alibi by going to the grocery store. Patrick Maloney Characterization -Senior Police officer -Refuses her offer to make him dinner -Punctual as always -On Thursdays, they eat out -He is behaving unusual...he gulps his first drink then makes himself another one, much stronger. -There is something that Mr. Maloney needs to tell his wife, and he is drinking in order to calm his nerves.
Juan Montoya English Comp II Prof. Bordogna February 6, 2013 “A Secret Sorrow” and “A Sorrowful Woman” both have a different attitude, not just in their life but their families as well. As the both the wives live their life daily, they grow into despair and depression because their problems. They share that there both in a bad position whether its physical health, or emotional health. As the story of “A Secret Sorrow” progresses, Faye becomes more understanding and willing to participate in what her husband Kai was telling her. In “A Sorrowful Woman” Godwin’s unnamed wife character, starts off in depression and only worsens as the story progresses.
When Tony was done pretending to put the eggs and the butter it was Chris’ turn she pretended putting the milk and then when she putted the water she made a mess that ended up wetting Gina’s shoes, the caregiver took a napkin and gave it to Gina to dry her shoes but Gina said “it’s ok Martha” referring to the caregiver, “I can take my shoes off and Chris don’t worry I’ll get new shoes when I get home but next time you do it how I say it”, then they were laughing. Time observed: 11:20 to 11:30 Gina was playing alone with her bear; she was pretending to read a book. She was using her imagination while reading the book, she mentioned the stars, the moon, the sky, and her house while reading it. Tony asked her “can I play with you and your bear” she said yes but let’s get another book because this one is boring, and Tony said “ok