“Everyday Use” Alice Walker

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Alice Walker Author, poet, feminist, activist Best known for The Color Purple (1982) Simple roots in Georgia living under Jim Crow laws Landlords – “no need for education” Parents resisted and helped her attend college

Alice Walker Accidentally wounded in right eye by BB gun – permanently blinded Became self-conscious and introverted – felt like outcast Solace in literature “[Allowed her] really to see people and things, really to notice relationships and to learn to be patient enough to care about how they turned out"

As you read… For Mama, Dee, and Maggie: Highlight/underline their thoughts, words, actions, descriptions Consider what inferences we can begin making about each of them