The Meaning of Heritage in Family

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The Meaning of Heritage in the Family as depicted in Alice Walker 's Everyday Use

Everything in this world appears to have a history including history itself . History tells people the roots and the legends that explain where and how things started and how people , place and things end up like they are now . In all places and in all ages and times , people have always valued history as it gives them the feel and the sense that they originated in one

special place and time . When it comes to families , a history is usually in the form of a heritage . A family 's heritage pays importance to ancestry and to the earlier roots of such a family lineage . Usually , people , especially the young ones tend to have this impression that only the elders value heritage . This can be because they would also like to be remembered , or maybe because heritage and ancestry are just s for the old . But no matter how the young generation treats heritage and history , one things remains certain : in the deepest part of each and every person there lies a point where they will choose to look back , reminisce and try to point out where they actually came from . And all these boils down to family heritage and history

A good example of this claim can be seen in Alice Walker 's short story Everyday Use . In a nut shell it tells the story of a mother...