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Everyday Use

  Everyday Use by Alice Walker is written from a first person point of view. The narrator is the mother. In the story the mother has two daughters, Maggie and Dee. You can notice that the relationship between the mother and Dee is a complicated one. Dee compared to her sister Maggie is much more independent, where Maggie is more reliant on her mother. An important factor as to why Maggie is so dependent on her mother is because in the past the family experienced their home being burned down, unfortunately Maggie was injured from that incident causing her to have no choice to rely on her mother. Both Mama and Maggie are uneducated women, whereas Dee went to college and has a full education.   At one point in the story Dee comes to visit her mother after many years of not seeing her. The mother truly wants to rekindle her relationship with Dee, however that is not how Dee feels towards her mother. In a way it felt like Dee held a form of resentment towards her mom. You can rea...
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Hills Like White Elephants

      "Hills Like White Elephants". The title itself gives you an idea that there will be a difficult conversation in the story. People often use the term an elephant in the room as a way of describing an obvious; but difficult topic to be discussed. We have two main characters  in this story. The American man and the girl. We get informed towards the middle of the story that this so called elephant in the room is about the girl getting an abortion. Of course at first it seems that the girl does in fact want to keep the baby. The man is strongly against it. We can tell by reading, that the two are in disagreement. Towards the end you can tell that the girl completely submits into going through with the abortion. What I came to notice however is that from the beginning the girl might have already decided on the abortion. If she was truly against it she would not have touched the liquor from the beginning, she would have drank it only after she made a decision. Th...
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