Description
Review the Strategy Questions for Organizing Your Argument Essay in Chapter 5, and then write a 1000- word response to the primary question of Chapter Activity #4 at the end of Chapter 8: How do family traditions and cultural legacies contribute to and/or inhibit an individual’s self-identity?
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Explanation & Answer
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Running Head: STRATEGY QUESTIONS
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STRATEGY QUESTIONS 2
Introduction
This essay talks about the various ways in which family traditions and cultural legacies
contribute to and/or inhibit an individual’s self-identity.it further draws illustrations from the
history of families, how this history is shared and valued among individual family members
while also scrutinizing the cliché “keeping the family name alive” .It shall also draw evidence
from Walker’s Everyday Use (page 379), Rich’s “Delta” (page 406) and Kelley’s “The People
In Me” (page 418).
In Walker’s Everyday Use, Maggie is like her mother at home in her traditions and she
honors the memory of her ancestors; for example, she is the daughter in the family who has
learned how to quilt from her grandmother. Dee, however, is virtually Maggie’s opposite. She is
characterized by good looks, ambition, and Dee’s education has been extremely important in
forging
her
character, but
at
the
same
time
it
has
split
her
off
from
her
family. Generally, Walker's story was more concerned with the traditions and more specifically
the family traditions and inheritance (Tate & Christian, 1996).
Dee's idea of "back to our roots culture" through the acceptance of African names as well
as her idea to hang quilts and exhibiting ...