She put on some sunglasses that hid everything above the tip of her nose and chin. What is symbolized in the excerpt? Angry that Mom didn’t value her heritage, Dee wished she would disappear. Dee was blinded by pride, and couldn’t recognize the true value of her heritage. Mom and Maggie were invisible to Dee because she was so busy. Dee wanted to shut out the vision of her Mother.

Dee was blinded by pride, and couldn’t recognize the true value of her heritage.

Explanation:

In Alice Walker's short story Everyday Use, the characters of Mama, Maggie, and Dee represent the different generations' perspectives of what their heritage means to them. While Mama and Maggie play the perfect mother-daughter relationship, Dee represents the rebelling and 'outcast' daughter who seems to have no real understanding of her heritage and family importance.

When Dee came with her boyfriend to get some of the household things she wanted for her apartment. she almost managed to get whatever she liked except the quilts that Mama refused to let her have them. In fact, she strongly objected and promptly gave them to Maggie, and told Dee to chose anything else. Her objective of hanging the quilts like a family treasure clashed with Maggie’s, where she will only "put them on the bed and in five years they'd be in rags." This made her so angry that she put on her sunglasses, hiding everything "above the tip of her nose and chin". This shows how she was blinded by her own pride and could not recognize the true value of her heritage, as her sister and mother did.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)