Symbolism In My Mother Pieced Quilts

Us as the World How does one represent their culture consistently? Culture is a person’s background and beliefs. Culture is very important for a family’s heritage. One should follow their culture and heritage. In the three texts, “Everyday Use,” by Alice Walker, “My Mother Pieced Quilts,” by Teresa Palomo Acosta, and “An Indian Fathers Plea,” by Robert Lake; represents culture informs the way one views the world and others. “An Indian Fathers Plea,” by Robert Lake is about a father whose child gets called slow because he was raised the traditional way, since he is from an Indian tribe. The subject of the first quote is how the child was brought into this world. The father explains, “As his first introduction into this world, he was bonded to his mother to his mother and to the mother earth in a traditional native childbirth ceremony” (Lake 75). There is more to learning than just understanding the basics, “This kind of learning goes beyond the basics or distinguishing the differences between rough and smooth, sharp and round, hard and soft, black and white, similarities and extremes” (Lake 76). This quote is explaining that there is more to learning than “the basics” culture should be included in a child’s learning. Through the acts of Wind-Wolf and Medicine

The quilts symbolize the speaker’s culture when she says “knotted with love / the quilts sing on” (Acosta line 56-57). This quote is significant because it states that the quilts will continue to represent the speaker’s culture and reveal her memories. The floor symbolizes her culture as a working place. The speaker says “In the evenings you sat at your canvas / - our cracked linoleum floor, the drawing board” (Acosta lines 28-29). This quote is significant because it shows that the mother used the floor as her working space. The author shows her culture through quilts and shows that in her