Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use.”

Write two paragraphs on Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use.” The first should discuss the significance of Passage 1 (below). "That's not the point," said Wangero. "These are all pieces of dresses Grand-ma used to wear. She did all this stitching by hand. Imagine!" She held the quilts securely in her aims, stroking them. "Some of the pieces, like those lavender ones, come from old clothes her mother handed down to her," I said, moving up to touch the quilts. Dee (Wangero) moved back just enough so that I couldn't reach the quilts. They al-ready belonged to her. "Imagine!" she breathed again, clutching them closely to her bosom. "The truth is," I said, "I promised to give them quilts to Maggie, for when she marries John Thomas." She gasped like a bee had stung her. "Maggie can't appreciate these quilts!" she said. "She'd probably be back-ward enough to put them to everyday use." "I reckon she would," I said. "God knows I been saving 'em for long enough with nobody using 'em. I hope she will!" I didn't want to bring up how I had offered Dee (Wangero) a quilt when she went away to college. Then she had told me they were old-fashioned, out of style. "But they're priceiesst she was saying now, furiously; for she has a temper. "Maggie would put them on the bed and in five years they'd be in rags. Less than that!" "She can always make some more," I said. "Maggie knows how to quilt." Dee (Wangero) looked at me with hatred. "You just will not understand. The point is these quilts, these quilts!" "Well," I said, stumped. "What would you do with them?" "Hang them," she said. As if that was the only thing you could do with quilts. Maggie by now was standing in the door. I could almost hear the sound her feet made as they scraped over each other. "She can have them, Mama," she said, like somebody used to never winning anything, or having anything reserved for her. "I can 'member Grandma Dee without the quilts." The second paragraph should discuss the significance of Passage 2. "You just don't understand," she said, as Maggie and I came out to the car. "What don't I understand?" I wanted to know. "Your heritage," she said. And then she turned to Maggie, kissed her, and said, "You ought to try to make something of yourself, too, Maggie. It's really a new day for us. But from the way you and Mama still live you'd never know it." She put on some sunglasses that hid everything above the tip of her nose and her chin. Maggie smiled; maybe at the sunglasses. But a real smile, not scared. After we watched the car dust settle I asked Maggie to bring me a dip of snuff. And then the two of us sat there just enjoying, until it was time to go in the house and go to bed. There are many issues and points of significance in these passages, so don’t try to tackle everything. In each of your paragraphs, make sure your observations are anchored in at least one specific quotation (for each passage). You should only quote a portion of the text that is significant to some point you’re making about it. That usually means you’ll be quoting a single phrase or even just a single term.