TITLE: In Blood and Heart TOPIC: Alice Walker's short story "Everyday Use" THESIS: [Alice Walker] shows how families fight ignorance, face change, find happiness, and feel love.

In Blood and Heart Alice Walker's story "Everyday Use" is about families (310-315). Ms. Walker uses the Johnson family to show her readers what family means and how family members interact with one another. She shows how families fight ignorance, face change, find happiness, and feel love. Ms. Walker shows that ignorance is something every family must face. In "Everyday Use," Mama and Maggie lack knowledge of the world while Dee lacks understanding of her …

…in heart, always love one another although the members of the family might not understand one another. Love means trying to understand your family, even when you disagree. It is accepting change without forgetting who you are. It is trying to be happy yourself without denying another's happiness. Love is the one thing that truly defines a family; there is no family without love. AUTHOR'S NOTES: Needs: longer intro, more quotations/paraphrases, works cited page