Our past. Our Future: An Evaluation on How People Show Different Things in Different Ways because of the Way They See the World

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Our Past, Our Future

(An evaluation on how people show different things in different ways, because of the way they see the world.)

We all see the world differently. We want to believe that we are all the same, but the truth there will always be differences. Some people just have a face that is good to look at. They are attractive, but were born with good looks. To some people this has put them ahead in life. We aren’t born equal and nothing in the world can truly prove that we were. However, we are all born with a way to make out lives better. You can be successful and do things with your life. In the end, it doesn’t matter the way you look, but what you do. If you love riding horses, go ride a horse. If you can’t accomplish science problems, don’t aim to be a rocket scientist. It is your life and you can do whatever you want to do as long as you try. When you try you find you can do so much more than you believed before. As we go do what we want and enjoy there are moments in our life when we forget out family. They raised us and created the people we are. Our life was because of them, good or bad. We have to face the future without heritage, community and the materials we have. They are a part of our life and no matter how much we push them away they will be there. In Everyday Use, by Alice Walker, we see three characters that show how the story talks about people’s history, their greed, and how they act in society.

Maggie Johnson shows within the lines of Use that our history doesn’t have to be possessions. Dee was focused on what the material possessions would provide. She thought her history was made up the objects, the little things, but not the actual people. She forgot that these people that owned the possessions mad...

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Works Cited

Donnelly, Mary. Alice Walker: The Color Purple and Other Works. N.p.: Marshall Cavendish, 2009. Print. Discusses different things that Alice Walker wrote. It was all over the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. CreateSpace. N.p.: n.p., 2013. Print. A discussion on how we have to be individual and be free and how at times when doing this we are at time misunderstood.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Great Gatsby. N.p.: Scribner, 2004. Print. Discusses a family that gets all they want and causes pain to the people around them.

Walker, Alice. Everyday Uses-Notes. N.p.: Gale Cengage, 2002. Print. There are moments in our life when we need help and alive wrote some words on the meaning of the story.

Wright, Richard. Native Son. N.p.: HarperCollins, 1977. Print. about a young man who finds out his family meant more than he thought.

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