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from
Hands:
for Mother’s Day |
Nikki
Giovanni
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Some
people think a quilt is a blanket stretched across a Lincoln bed…1or
from frames on a wall…a quaint museum piece to be purchased
onBloomingdale’s2 30-day
same-as-cash plan…Quilts are our mosaics…Michelle-Angelo’s3 contribution
to beauty…We weave a quilt with dry, rough hands…Quilts are the way
our lives are lived…We survive on patches…scraps…the leftovers from
a materially richer culture…the throwaways from those with emotional
options…We do the far more difficult job of taking that which nobody
wants and not only loving it…not only seeing its worth…but making it
lovable…and intrinsically worthwhile… |
Literary
Connections:
Explain how Giovanni’s passage relates to “Everyday Use.”
Provide details for support.
Characterization: Using
a double bubble map, compare and contrast Dee and Maggie.
Make
sure you are using
personality traits and proving each one with a detail from the story.
Archetypes:
Explain how the unhealable wound and innate wisdom vs. educated stupidity
are
in
the story.
Symbols:
Explain what the home and the quilt symbolize to Dee.