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Essay Archive - In Search Of Our Mothers' Gardens and Everyday Use: Honoring Heritage
In Search Of Our Mothers' Gardens and Everyday Use: Honoring Heritage
In Alice Walker’s “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens” and in “Everyday Use,” the author’s different stories of heritage demonstrate the conflicting ideas of how to honor one’s heritage, even though there are various ways discussed to honor heritage all are correct. In “Everyday Use,” the narrator discusses her heritage through quilts made by her mother and grandmother and through how her daughter Dee was given her name. In “In Search of Our Mo....
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