Sunday, February 8, 2009

Reflection 2: "Everyday use" of Alice Walker

The story “Everyday Use” of Alice Walker is about the times in which families can only afford to pay one of their child’s, the outstanding one, to go to school and important places. In this story Dee was the outstanding child and her sister Maggie was the resignated child. For Dee her parents have gave everything they could to help her in her future. She never learned the world no. Meanwhile Maggie was pushed to aside. In the story Dee was already ground up and also she had moved out of her growing up house. Maggie still lived in that house because she was still young. The story tell us of one of Dee’s visit to the old house were she used to live and Maggie and the rest of her family still lived, and tells us of a lot of unselfish things Dee did and all of the things that she wanted to take for memories from that house that were still in use.

What most shocked me about this story is that Maggie was pushed aside and Dee got always all she wanted and for me that is just unfair. I think that no matter what situation is presented the entire members of a family should be treated the same and also they should be given all the same opportunities, no matter what. I also know that this equality is hard to have in these families because of their economical needs, but I still think that there’s ways to help each of the members of the family without making one better than another.

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