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= Everyday Use = This project is created to add useful information to the Wikipedia article "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker.

Summary:
The main point of the article Alice Walker's Everyday Use by Nancy Tuten is shifting the readers Point of View from their own as an audience and instead focusing on Mama. Tuten believes that Walker's use of Mama telling the story is both purposeful and strategic. We are looking at biased truths from the eyes of Mama who in fact is actually in awe and respect of her daughter Dee. However, she projects her feelings of shame of not meeting Dee's (Wangero) expectations onto herself and Maggie. She claims that Maggie is quiet, painfully shy and not educated because it would be "wasted on her." The author helps us see that it isn't that the observation is completely true but to help assist in the shift of past, present, and future tense. Past representing how the mother feels while Dee is there, Future is how she would like it to turn out before Dee gets there and Present which is waking up to the true character of Dee and choosing to show love, care, and respect to Maggie this time instead. In the end, Mama learns that how she interacts and regards both of her children is a side effect of her perspective of both daughters. Later, she banishes those thoughts by defending her second daughter Maggie's wedding gift a family quilt.

A forward thinking family member returns for a visit, when views begin to clash over a special quilt.

Characters:
Mama:

Maggie:

Dee [Wangero]:

Hakim A Barber Hakim: Arabic male name meaning, 'wise.' Asalamalakim is not the name of the man who Wangero invites home with her but a Muslim salute or greeting, "Peace be unto you."