Invention Technique- Short story book jacket

 Invention Technique:

Since this assignment was meant to short enough to fit on a book cover. I tried to write only the points that I feel had the most impact in the Walker story. I wrote quick notation of important information that I obtained from scholarly journals that depicted Alice Walker's life story.

Rough Draft:

I created my rough draft from the mock summary shown below. We had to turn in a plot summary prior to the final product. We were required to turn a list of quotes we would be using on the book jacket assignment. Those quotes had to be in MLA format. After making so many minor mistakes on my previous assignments. I applied all the knowledge I now had to make sure this assignment was my best work. A revision was not necessary for this assignment because earned a perfect score. I am so thankful for all the feedback on the other assignments. Thanks to my peers and my instructor I was able to achieve what I had been striving for all semester.

1)       A brief Plot summary:

The plot is mainly about the mom and Maggie waiting on the expected return Dee. Only to be surprised by the abundant changes physically, culturally that dee has done

2)       A description of the setting.

The setting took place in at the family’s home In the rural southern home. The time frame in the 60’s or 70’s.

3)       A description of the characters.

The mother is a heavy-set woman, uneducated, and has rough hand due to being a hard worker. Dee is a smaller framed young lady who.

4)       An explanation of the point of view the story is being told from.

The story is being told from a first-person point of view. The Mother in this story Is narrating the events and experiences of her daughter’s relationship.

5)       Examples of imagery.

There were many forms of imagery in the very beginning it painted the pictures of ladies outside in the yard as “dee” showed up to visit. The most significant form of imagery would be the quilt which caused the tension among the ladies.

6)       Examples of symbolism.

Dee’s name change was a big focal point of the story, as well as the quilt. It symbolized their history as a black family as well as separation from oppression.

7)       A brief description of the story’s underlying theme.

The underlying theme of this story explores the power of education and liberation. It highlighted the black culture.

Book jacket quotes:

Alexis Griffin

Professor Nall

Composition II

10 April 2024

Assignment #3 Quotes

“…Walker's story becomes the foil to an authorial vision of the African American community, past and present, and its struggle for liberation.”

 

Cowart, David. "Heritage and deracination in Walker's "Everyday Use"." Studies in Short Fiction, vol. 33, no. 2, 1996, pp. 171-184. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/heritage-deracination-walkers-everyday-use/docview/195681019/se-2.

 

“These readers praise the "simplicity" of Maggie and her mother, along with their allegiance to their specific family identity and folk heritage as well as their refusal to change at the whim of an outside world that doesn't really have much to do with them.”

 

Farrell, Susan. "Fight Vs. Flight: A Re-Evaluation of Dee in Alice Walker's "Everyday use"." Studies in Short Fiction, vol. 35, no. 2, 1998, pp. 179-186. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/fight-vs-flight-re-evaluation-dee-alice-walkers/docview/195683514/se-2.

 

“This story is distinctive, however, in that Walker stresses not only the importance of language but also the destructive effects of its misuse.”

 

Tuten, Nancy. "Alice Walker's "Everyday use"." The Explicator, vol. 51, no. 2, 1993, pp. 125. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/alice-walkers-everyday-use/docview/216773157/se-2.

 

“Throughout her epistolary essay, Walker elaborates on the historical conflict of colorism among Black women in the United States and asserts that colorism is as harmful as the more well-known issues of racism and sexism.”

 

Webb, Sarah L. "Everyday Colorism: Reading in the Language Arts Classroom." English Journal, vol. 108, no. 4, 2019, pp. 21-28. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/everyday-colorism-reading-language-arts-classroom/docview/2201668756/se-2.

 

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