Alice Walker's Short Story "Everyday Use"

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Didactics - English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: 2,0, University of Passau, language: English, abstract: This term paper provides the concept of a teaching unit concerning the short story Everyday Use by Alice Walker. Apart from the different analyses there should also be given an overview of recommendations and possibilities that could be used for creating a teaching unit.

Everyday Use was published in 1973 and is basically about a black mother and her two daughters. Whereas one daughter, Dee, had the possibility to go to school and visit college, Maggie, the younger daughter, still lives with her mother and did not enjoy higher education. One day, Dee, who is accompanied by her boyfriend, visits her mother and her sister at her old home. As the story continues it becomes clear that obvious differences have developed between the opinions of Dee and her mother alternatively her sister.

About the author

Martin Eder, geboren 1968 in Augsburg, studierte von 1986 bis 1992 an der Hochschule Augsburg, 1993 bis 1995 an der Akademie der bildenden Künste Nürnberg, 1995/96 an der Gesamthochschule Kassel, 1996 bis 1999 bei Eberhard Bosslet, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden, 1999 bis 2001 Meisterschüler dort. Martin Eder lebt und arbeitet in Berlin.

Product details

• Authors: Martin Eder
• Publisher: Grin Verlag
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2014
• EAN: 9783656746775
• ISBN: 978-3-656-74677-5
• No. of pages: 24
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 51 g
• Series: Akademische Schriftenreihe; Akademische Schriftenreihe Bd. V281357; Akademische Schriftenreihe; Akademische Schriftenreihe Bd. V281357
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Humanities, art, music > Education > Secondary school levels I and II