A Mother's Promise In Everyday Use By Alice Walker

Mrs. Hopewell and Mrs. Freeman have an inconspicuous competition about their accomplishment in bringing up their girls to be great, nation individuals. The day preceding, a book of scriptures sales representative by the name of Manley Pointer had come around

Kayla from “The Bar Code Tattoo” by Suzanne Weyn and Quarta from “The Girl Who Was Only Born With 2 Arms And 2 Legs” by Stuart Baum Both are confident, 2 ways that they are confident is they never gave up and thay are brave. They are confident because they never gave up. One way that Kayla never gave up is she never gave up on finding the mountain where all of the non - bar code tattoo people. This explains that she didn’t want to be controlled by the government with the tattoo. The first way that Quarta never gave up is that she never gave up on being the same.

In “homage to my hips” by Lucille Clifton, she talks about her self-confidence. Clifton is proud to be the woman she is and no one will get in the way of how she feels about herself. Clifton tells readers in this sentence “they don’t fit into little petty places” (524), she is saying that she is confident with who she is, and she is just fine with her size. She says that she will not be around petty people that will judge her, because of the way she looks. Clifton will never think that she is worthless because of what other people think of her.

“Never hide my face[...]never again. Never look at my feet, never again. I look up at Agatha, then back at my mother. ‘I’ll b-b-b-be okay here’” (Fusco 164).

She always stood strong in the face of adversity and never gave up what she believed in. Moreover, Mama’s plant was another way the playwright showed us how strong Mama’s beliefs were. Mama always wanted a garden to grow beautiful

The short story “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan explains a mother and daughter relationship that has many differences within a conflict in the story. The narrator demonstrates that the mother and the daughter do not agree with the same aspect on life. Since the mother wants her daughter to be perfect, the daughter refuses to make her mother’s wishes come true. Her mother wanted the narrator to become the perfect traditional daughter, but the narrator’s differences triggered with her mother. An indication from the story is, “Unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be, I could only be me” (137).

Who needs the other the most? Adeline needs Aunt Baba the most because Aunt Baba is the only one in Adeline's family who loves her, besides Ye Ye. A quote from the book that resembles this is on page 122 when Adeline says “Will you write twice a week to me.” Then Aunt Baba said “For as long as you're in Tianjin.” Aunt Baba still loves Adeline even though she is far away and also Adeline doesn't want to leave her because she has always been a mother to her and doesn't want to leave her.

Not once did Kim’s daughter ever see Kim break down and cry, give up, or hate the world. Of course Kim wondered what life would be like if she waited to have a child, but she knew she was only given what she could handle. Kim’s dream were just to be successful and give her daughter the life she missed. What my mother dreamed is what what my mother

Eager to see the narrators’ mother at the beginning of the story, she responds with tears of happiness. No major decisions are made by her nor are there any influencing moments that change her point of view. Maryam is a realistic character. Responding with tenderness towards the girls and tears when their mother leaves, she responds as you would expect a mother figure to

Even though Beatrice could be described as quiet or reserved at the start of the novel, she still always had a sense of aliveness and would never show an unpolished side of her appearance. Kambili’s sharp description of her mother’s neat appearance throughout the novel is evidence of this. Beatrice’s story doesn’t conclude with a dead end though. After her and Kambili’s visit to Jaja in prison, she turns to Kambili and thanks her, for the first time in a long while she initiated conversation (Adichie 306).

My Family correlation to “Everyday Use” No filter, no beating around the bush, sensing shade. All of the things that describe my mama. Which is a similarity to the story. In the story “Everyday Use” written by Alice Walker, Mama comes off as very blunt. If you knew my family you could see exactly how they relate.

Alice Malsenior was born in Eatonton Georgia on February 9, 1944 she being the eight and youngest child of Minnie Tallulah grant and Willie lee walker, her parent were sharecropper. When she about eight years old her and brother were playing with BB guns her brother accidently shot her in the eye, leaving her blind in her right eye. Considering that happening, she became a shy person and she felt like individuals really did not understand the person she was. In result to that, she fell in love with ready and writing, especially poetry. As she got older, she went on to Spellman College in Atlanta Georgia.