Everyday Use

First Of all, I can't help but notice a possible trend having to do with race in the works that we are reading this chapter. This makes sense, because race is definitely a large aspect of a person's identity. Most of these happen to be particularly about African Americans from what I've gathered from the reading. Anyways, in Alice Walker's Everday Use, I fin myself breaking one of the crucial rules of reading and identifying with a character. I know that the life of an African American famil in he mid 1900s hardy compares to my own life, but the idea and structure of families I believe is at least similar. I actually find myself relating to the two sister, Dee and Maggie. I right away sympathize with Dee as she is "eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe" because I often fin myself looking at my own sister in this way. It is common for a little sister to look up to her big sister, as it seems Maggie does.i also feel bad for Maggie in the way that she is being compared to Dee. As one of five children, I know there is nothing more annoying than being compared to a smiling (slight overexaggeration).  From the text, it seems that Maggie has had horrible bad luck, being badly crippled in a fire and then that "like good looks and money, quickness had passed her by". While Dee on the other hand, live a life in which it seems "that 'no' is a word the world never learned to say to her'".