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Everyday Use by Alice Walker

Everyday Use by Alice Walker. Feature Menu. Introducing the Story Literary Focus: Determining Characters’ Traits Reading Skills: Making Inferences About Characters. Everyday Use by Alice Walker. Everyday Use Introducing the Story.

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Everyday Use by Alice Walker

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  1. Everyday Useby Alice Walker Feature Menu Introducing the Story Literary Focus: Determining Characters’ Traits Reading Skills: Making Inferences About Characters

  2. Everyday Useby Alice Walker

  3. Everyday UseIntroducing the Story Made by hand, the craft object bears the fingerprints, real or metaphorical, of the person who fashioned it. . . . Made by hand, the craft object is made for hands. Not only can we see it, we can also finger it, feel it. Octavio Paz

  4. Everyday UseLiterary Focus: Determining Characters’ Traits As you read “Everyday Use,” learn all you can about the character traits of Mama, Dee, Maggie, and Hakim-a-barber. Pay attention to • what they think and feel • what they say and do • how they look • what other characters say about them [End of Section]

  5. Everyday UseReading Skills: Making Inferences About Characters As you read a story, you make inferences, intelligent guesses based on evidence in the story and your own prior knowledge. Prior Knowledge—what you already know about life, people, and storytelling Inference (educated guess) + = Evidence from Story—events, setting, descriptions, and so on

  6. Everyday UseReading Skills: Making Inferences About Characters When you make inferences about characters, you’ll base many of your guesses on what the characters say and do. At the beginning of “Everyday Use,” the narrator waits in her front yard for someone to arrive. The narrator comments that she and Maggie cleaned the yard the day before. Based on this information, what can you infer about the narrator? about Maggie? What are their feelings about the upcoming visit? [End of Section]

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