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bioladebo
bioladebo
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What is the setting, time, and place for the story "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker?

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Posted by bioladebo on Monday October 22, 2007 at 10:44 AM and tagged with everyday use, place, setting, time.

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  1. amy-lepore Teacher
    High School - 12th Grade

    eNotes Editor

    The setting for this simple and complicated story is in the rural south during the 1960's when lots of changes in values and ways of life were taking place.

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    Posted by amy-lepore on Monday October 22, 2007 at 10:52 AM


  2. mickey2bailey Teacher
    High School - 9th Grade

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    The setting of the story is in a three room house in a pasture with a roof made of tin.  The windows were just holes cut out of the sides and didn't have a definite shape.  Rawhide held the shutters in place from the outside of the house.  The time was set in the 1960"s when African Americans were making a statement about their culture and heritage through the era of the "Black Pride Movement."  This encouraged an interest in black history through, song, dance ,art, literature, etc.  It doesn't state a particular state or place except to say it was in the rural South.The only place mentioned is Augusta Florida where Dee was sent to school which tells me that wasn't where the family lived.

    Source:  The Language of Literature Book by McDougal Littell

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    Posted by mickey2bailey on Friday October 26, 2007 at 11:17 AM

  3. mark772
    mark772

    It may not be possible to specify exactly where, but you ought to try to come up with some reasonable specific sense of where and when we are to imagine the action of the story taking place. As for the time, dont forget to take into account when the story was published, and then ask whether there are any hints as to whether the original audience was being invited to think of it as taking place in what was for them "now" or in the near remote past, or some time in the future.

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    Posted by mark772 on Saturday June 28, 2008 at 8:12 AM