The Educational and Race Issue on Everyday Use

Final Semester deplete Home foot dry wash E rattlingday put on Auliya Atika F. Auliya Atika F. Mr. Gindho Rizano M. beat Prose II May 24, 2012 Final Task Examination The Educational and quicken Issue in E preciseday Use Everyday Use is a part of the short story collection In Love and exsert Stories of Black Woman (1973) by Al crackpot Walker (Wikipedia). Alice Walker is an African American blooded who often made upshots near African American itself adultly in her buy the farms . Everyday Use is one of her push throughstanding constitute which got many appreciation from literarys devotees.This story itself is telling astir(predicate) an unlucky family who consist of florists chrysanthemum and her both daughters, where is a quarrel mingled with Mama and her oldest daughter and similarly how her youngest daughter who adopt a very self low-esteem perceive any conflicts at their home(a). For this chance, I want to prove the related topic which prominent enough to this stories, there are two things I want to discuss, the first is the bringing upal events amid the characters, especially nigh the contrary among Mama and Maggie with Dee.And the second is race issues which contain in whatever parts of this story. The characters of Mama and Maggie in this story exposit is not generate a good reproduction facilities because of some unexperctable problem I neer had an education myself. After second grade the trail was closed agglomerate (page 3). Although she and her youngest sister just couldnt reach the proper education, her oldest sister, Dee could enjoy check until college now and she even out studied in a prestigious boarding Final Semester Take Home Test Everyday Use Auliya Atika F. instruct at other city.Dee at her sixteen age already have her own unique style, from head to toe, so bright and colorful, and ever her hairstyle which Mama cant tolerance it any more than(prenominal) from the bottom of her center field A dress do wn to the ground, in this hot weather. A dress so loud it hurts my eyes . I feel my whole face melt from the heat waves it throws out (page 4). Mama unfeignedly hopes by sending Dee to the heightsest take of education, she could get into the moment to share any knowledge as large as Dee got from school we raised the money, the church and me, to send her to Augusta to school. (page 2).And the go around point of expentacy of Mama sending her to school is in order to Dee more appreciate her in any things. Mama hopes Dee could appreciate Mamas large and manly body, Mamas dark skin, and how Mama acted the like a strong man and she loves it a lots. It is a very childly hope from a mother to a daughter actually, but Dee unquestionably couldnt find it at all. Dee just come back home subsequently a long time since the last time she came with her more compulsive style towards her own family. She even greet Mama with the eerie greetings language Wa-su-zo Tean-o,, which actually an African language.She comes to home with a strange son who she introduced to Mama as her boyfriend. Her lofty style towards Mama, and how she threats Mama and Maggie bad, as shes much better on any points than both of them are the turn out of what we get from studied on years. Shes just alienated herself and make her own arrogant cogitation somewhat her life. Ironically Maggie who just never left home and having a traumatic problems because of she almost burned of sex at her home in the past. Her body just shuffled when she walks and her chin ever bend down. Shes kind of a very nervous young lady and just taking anything given to her.Shes very unconfindent with her lack of education and very suffered of her serious shyness towards society out there. Eventhough Mama always says to her that someday she will marry John Thomas and sooner after then will gain her self confident and could be a stronger woman. We can see the ironic contradiction between those two siblings and how edu cation and the lack of it could give them dangerous impacts to their each other life. Final Semester Take Home Test Everyday Use Auliya Atika F. The race issue also coloring this story in some aspects.Alice Walker itself actually is African-American and like to mold the topic about race on her works. The stories in the collection book where this short stories published is taking the setting bit around Walkers home where contains of cultural mixing between the modern New York City and the East Africa Nation Uganda (Sparknotes). And also the characters in this story possibly reflected the authors family. Walker is the youngest child of eightsome children in her family. Shes growing up during 1960s-1970s, and during that time she must to do a lot of work in her young age.Woman in this era mollify expected to do the house works stuff, such cooked, cleaned the house, etc. scarce it is actually is quite different with this story, because Mama ever tell about how she is doing some wor ks which man used to do it, and in the actual African-American tradition, it is not suitable for woman who doing the mans work I am a large, big-boned woman with rough, man-working hands. . . . I die flannel nightgowns to bed and overalls during the day. I can kill a slovenly person as mercilessly as a man. My fat keeps me hot in zero weather.I can work outside all day, breaking ice to get water for washing I can eat pork barrel liver cooked over the open fire minutes after it comes muggy from the hog. One winter I knocked a bull calf heterosexual person in the brain between the eyes with a sledge mould and had the meat hung up to chill before nightfall. (page 1). We can observe the racism elements in this story firstly through Mamas character. How she described her own appearance and and her life background and also how mint gauge of her Who ever knew a Johnson with a quick tongue? Who can even imagine me looking a strange white man in the eye? (page 2). Another point whic h indicate the race element in this story is how Mama is comparing the skin color between she and her daughters Dee is light source than Maggie, with nicer hair and a fuller figure. (page 2). The African traditional elaboration in this stories also could be seen in the last part which Mama is contention with Dee concerning the quilts, as their family heritage. Dee is really wanting the quilts, but Mama keep inst to grant the grandmothers command to give them to Maggie, it is a gloss or that she keeps Final Semester Take Home Test Everyday Use Auliya Atika F. n and dont want to break it Isnatched the quilts out of Miss Wangeros hands and dumped them into Maggies lap (page 9). The quilts itself used to soften and as a piece of uniforms that Dees grandfather wore during the civil war, it could be a maps about Black-American suffering experiences. We could also observe the race issue through Dees character. The change of Dees earn into an African name Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo actually because she wants to protest existence named after the people who have crush her I couldnt bear it any longish, being named after the people who oppress me (Page 4)..By changing her name, she seemed doesnt want to be associated with her familys culture and she feels freedom after her name have changed. And although her new name is African name, but she doesnt related it at all into her family. After being a more educational and smart woman who studied until the soaring level, Dee even felt ashamed with her family reality life 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. (page 3). She is even unaware to comprehend herself to collar making quilts, a traditional heritage from her family.She just looked the quilts through the fabric value, not from heritage value. Heritage or generation, it is not a symbolize of her family traditions, she just wear it without any meaning at all. Dees ru n into on the value of family culture and tradition value seemed very note with Mama and her sister, Maggie. Mama and Maggie think that traditions are something eternal and no longer definited as an Everyday Use, it is always planted in their heart and mind as an admiration to their ancestors who have built these traditions since a very long time ago.As in the beginning of the story, Mama as a narrator proudly introduced herself as a strong African-American woman. seemingly we can conclude that the both issues I discuss this time is very related to each other in this story. The first is the educational issue that happened among the main characters, Mama and Maggie with Dee. Mama and Maggie who forced to give up their school since the beginner grade is very contrary with Dee who could continue her study until the high level, college. But the high education that Dee could Final Semester Take Home Test Everyday UseAuliya Atika F. reach apparently couldnt shape her become into a poli te woman and a good children. Shes become arrogant with her high intellectual level, she unaware with her family cultural and traditions and even more devaluate her mother. And although Mama and Maggie are low in educational, but they have a highly appreciation to their own culture and tradition. So, the second issue which is about race could joint to the previous issue, the educational issue. Alice Walker is very famous to drop the race issue in her mostly works.In this story the race issues could we find out through the characteristics of especially Mama and Dee. Dee who have been in the year of college, but her appreciation to their family tradition is become weaker and make her be arrogant and underestimating her own family. Her intellect maybe has been killed her respect. So the education couldnt determine someone become also better in her mindset and behavior. Works Cited Walker, Alice. Love and Trouble Stories of Black Woman Everyday Use. 1973 Klarer, Mario. An insertion t o Literary Studies (Second Edition). (London Routledge, 2004) 103-115. www. wikipedia. org/Everyday_Use