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Everyday Use
"Everyday Use" by Alice Walker is a short story about how people get caught up in the superficial value of material things, and the jealousy this desire causes. In this short story Dee, the eldest daughter, was always ashamed by the way she lived during her childhood years. As she was educated more and more, her feelings of hatred for poverty and ignorance grew intensely. After she ....
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.... Even though she knew her family couldn't afford "nice things" she had a burning desire for them. This desire made her take the time and effort to alter a suit her mother was given, into a nicer green suit.
Even while Dee was still enrolled in high school, she was trying to help make her mother and sister more educated. She would read to them relentlessly in a futile attempt to "improve" them. "She used to read to us without pity; forcing words ....
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