The Two Sisters In Everyday Use By Alice Walker

Essay 1 Did you realize that in many family, there is always one child who is so different from the other children? They are not only different from appearance, but also different from many aspects. In Alice Walker's "Everyday use", Walker tells us about her two daughters, Dee and Maggie, are raised by the same parent under the same environment, but turned out as two totally different persons due to many reasons. In the story, Dee is the different one. She is different from her sister, Maggie. From the outside, she is attractive and in good shape. From the inside, she is confident and intellectual. She is fearless to look people in the eye when she talks. Yet, somehow she is embarrassed by where she was living, she did not want to bring her friends to her home. She always want to get out of get out of poverty. She is the most ambitious among her family. She desired to change her current

Dee did try to tell her mother and sister that knowledge can make them become better, but she might did not express it well enough to be convincing. "[Dee] used to read to us without pity; forcing words, lies, other folks' habits, whole lives upon us two, sitting trapped and ignorant underneath her voice. She washed us in a river of make-believe, burned us with a lot of knowledge we didn't necessarily need to know. Pressed us to her with the serious way she read, to shove us away at just the moment, like dimwits, we seemed about to understand." (Walker 2) She did try but she did not succeed, instead she kind of triggered resentment from her mother. Even so, it is an expression of love to her family. Maggie showed her love to Dee when she said Dee could have the quilt while it is important to her too. She is willing to let Dee own it and it is her love to Dee. Even though they have contrast characteristics, but they do in common of one thing that love each