Literature analysis essay

When I've grown into a responsible adult, I've always found myself wondering: how much control do I have over the world and my surroundings? In today's multicultural culture, plenty of us find ourselves conforming to our guardians' earthly perspectives: looking no deeper than they do, even if we do think differently, it's just for a short time. Maggie marvels at her younger sister’s tenacious insistence to challenge her surrounding, and those around her to play to her tune. The world is unique, and so is everyone one of its inhabitants. In school, for instance, everyone has their own unique identity, and that has a significant impact on how one responds to everything that happens around them. I have come across some very influential classmates, who are ready to go beyond the limit to influence everything and everyone they come in contact with. Of cause, not all of the influence I experience is negative, but here is a lot to question about what some of me brings bring on the table. Our quest to conform and be like the majority can be both a curse and at the same time blessing, similar to Dee’s case in the novel. Many of us have misinterpreted exposure to the world and education as a means to say that our culture is outdated and that it has nothing of importance to offer to this generation. However, this is a falsehood, and most of us know it although we are afraid to confront it. Fighting the reality of our culture does have no added value as what it instills in the totality of a human being cannot be substituted for education or any other thing. As seen when Dee returns home, she very much wants to feel a part of her heritage, but she had pushed it far for so long, and now she wants to do it for all the wrong reasons. By the end of the day, one feels more enslaved and helplessly trapped as allowing peer influence to take charge is more of abandoning their culture and swaying with the wind. Like most of us in this generation do, Dee steps out of her family and rather than utilizing her privileged and luck in education and exposure to advocate for the black nationalism for all the right reasons, she turns it into more of a showoff by fetishizing her family’s cultural quilts. Her changed dressing code is a symbolism of what most of us young people turn about to be, and little do we know that we are deviating from what is of importance to us, what kept our forefathers intact for that long. Like what Maggie feels, I think that conform to the sophisticated ways seem more appealing and all we want to copy those doing it already. Still, what we tend to forget is that we should be ourselves as there is no one identical to the other. Assuredly, Dee is a replica of modern-day young people and society at large who despise their culture for no good reason at all, and when they realize its importance, it becomes too late for them to integrate and incorporate it thoroughly. By the end of the end, it is every person on their own, hence essential to living by what brings pride to oneself. Work Cited Walker, Alice. Everyday use. Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 2004.