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Alice Walker

This essay will examine the characters in Alice Walker 's short story Everyday Use ,and George Orwell 's Shooting an Elephant . The characters will be compared and contrasted with one another and the style in which Walker writes will also attribute to these juxtapositions

The essence of Alice Walker 's short story Everyday Use can be found in the past , as is true for each of her other stories . Each character in Everyday Use is in representation of heritage

, therefore the focal point of the story subsists with the quilts and the symbolism behind them The main character , whose point of view the story takes , is that of Mama . She adequately describes herself and her body as a working body not one that hinges upon frail life ventures , but as Walker states

In real life I am a large , big boned woman with rough , man working hands . In the winter I wear flannel nightgowns to bed and overalls during the day . I can kill and clean a hog as mercilessly as a man . My fat keeps me hot in zero weather . I can work outside all day , breaking ice to get water for washing I can eat pork liver cooked over the open fire minutes after it comes steaming from the hog . One winter I knocked a bull calf straight in the brain between the eyes with a sledge hammer and had the meat hung up to chill before nightfall...