Discussion #7: Walker: "Everyday Use" 1.Read Alice Walker's story, "Everyday Use."

2.Although the narrative point of view favors Maggie in this story, and most readers feel a thrill of justice when Mama snatches the quilts away from Wangero (Dee) and places them in Maggie's lap, we can begin to see more complexity within the story when we fully examine both Maggie's and Dee's beliefs and motivations.

3.Consider which daughter you believe should get the quilts, and create an effective argument defending your choice.

4.Use direct examples from the text, quoting, summarizing and paraphrasing from the story to prove your point.

your answer is b. "with strong wording encouraging readers to take action."

the rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg.

the words “strangest” and “unusual” suggest that the narrator is about to tell the story of an odd or puzzling group of people.

to eliminate ambiguous remote or broad reference it is necessary to focus on anaphoric reference. by definition "anaphoric reference means that a word in a text refers back to other ideas in the text for its meaning." the references should be clear and leave no room for ambiguity.

in the first case the pronoun it probably refers to the car but it has not been mentioned before so we should replace it for the car. in doing so the statement becomes clear.

in sentence number   two   the pronoun he refers to charles dickens the author. yet, the first half of the sentence is about the book a tale of two cities. to repair this it would be better to rephrase the first half : after i read   a tale of two cities by dickens, he so as to remove the remote reference.