The Symbolism of the Handmade Quilt in Everyday Use by Alice Walker

In Alice Walker's "everyday use", the two sisters want handmade quilts, a symbol of family tradition. Throughout this story, Alice expresses her feelings about her tradition. This means everything to her. Things like handmade quilts make it special. It is only dedication and work of many years that we can express quilts. A symbol is one in which the author expresses a greater meaning by using things in the story. Quilt is a symbol of family legacy that only some people can admit.

In Alice Walker 's esoteric story "Daily Youth", the author uses quilts as a symbol of respecting the history and tradition of African Americans. In 1973, Alice Walker announced "daily supply" to discuss the quilt's cultural artifacts from the reputation of women's sewing machine circle tools into American African American cultural metaphor. Author Barbara Christian wrote a short story about the heritage of an African-American inherited from their ancestors (Whitsitt 2000)

In Alice Walker's "everyday use", the two sisters want handmade quilts, a symbol of family tradition. Throughout this story, Alice expresses her feelings about her tradition. This means everything to her. Things like handmade quilts make it special. It is only dedication and work of many years that we can express quilts. A symbol is one in which the author expresses a greater meaning by using things in the story. Quilt is a symbol of family legacy that only some people can admit.

In the story "Daily Youth", Alice Walker uses a detailed explanation to explain the symbolic meaning of a unique and valuable quilt, and the contrast of the entire story character. Quilt is not a mere creative work in the entire story but a specific symbol. According to Sam Whitsitt's article, "Quilt itself represents the history and tradition that links African culture to the past and the past" (Whitsitt, 445). Quilt helps portray the traditional African-American theme through the story and fully integrates her mother's ancestry and her heritage. Quilt shows the relationship of influence to each hero of each generation and story, including Mama, Dee, Maggie. The use of the whole story quilt by Walker also helps to show the difference between each character.

In Alice Walker 's short stories "daily necessities", family quilts are used as a symbol of the value that all families value. For Maggie, quilt is another thing she has to give up. De 's quilt is a symbol that transcends her poor past. For her mother, quilt symbolizes the roots of her family. The biggest daughter, Deeys cherishes her friend's recognition. When she grew up, she did not have many friends. Indeed, when her mother mentioned this, Maggie commented, "Mom, when did you have friends and friends?" (91) Since Dee made friends at school, she wants to show African tradition. Please impress them. The clothes she wore were obvious from her traditional African costumes, long and bright yellow and orange, to her gold earrings and overhanging bracelets. Even her hair is designed with ethnic hair style. Dee chose the new African name, Wangar Lewanica Kemanjo, and greeted his family with a greeting by black Muslims.