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“Everyday Use” by Alice Walker Dee has always been seen, by herself and others, as different than her family and the people around her. In what ways is she different? While searching for her ‘identity’ Dee rejects her birth name and adopts a new one, an African one, ‘Wangaro,’ along with African dress and hair style, why do you suppose she does this? How do Dee’s mother and sister react to the changes? How would you describe Mrs. Johnson? How does she feel about Dee, about Maggie? How do you feel about Dee? Is she a sympathetic character? Do you understand her desire to ‘improve’ herself and her family? How does Dee react to the food and objects in her mother’s home? Why does Mrs. Johnson decide to stand up to Dee and not allow her to take the quilts at the end of the story? “A Stitch in Time” Interview with Alice Walker According to Alice Walker, what are the origins of the story “Everyday Use”? The author refers to the “return to Africa movement” that reached its peak in the late sixties and early seventies. What did the movement entail? Why does Walker believe that the movement showed disrespect to parents and grandparents? Although the name Walker is most likely the name of the former slave owners who owned her ancestors, why is the author happy to keep that name? According to Alice Walker what is the phony part of the embrace of Afro-centricity? What prompted the author to make Mrs. Johnson the narrator of “Everyday Use”? What does Walker say brought Dee home after such a long absence? According to Walker, what do quilts represent in Afro-American culture? “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens” by Alice Walker What is “the unknown thing that was in them (our mothers and grandmothers) [that] would be made known” that Alice Walker refers to? Who was Phyllis Wheatley and why does Walker use her as an example? Walker references Virginia Woolf’s work “A Room of Her Own” in her essay. What is the connection between the two essays? “What if Shakespeare Had A Sister?” is a piece of that larger work. Walker states “Therefore we must fearlessly pull out of ourselves and look at and identify with our lives the living creativity some of our great grandmothers knew, even without knowing it. What does Walker mean by this? According to Walker, what did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in her grandmothers time? Where does Walker find the answer to her question “How did they do it?” (Keep their creative spirit alive, in spite of the obstacles placed in their paths.) Explain the title “In search of Our Mothers’ Gardens.” Give some examples of creative expression provided by Walker.