My Mother Pieced Quilts By Teresa Paloma Summary

Quilt Symbol
In the story “My Mother Pieced Quilts” by Teresa Paloma and the “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, use imagery and figurative language to establish a quilt symbol for a mothers love for her family to illustrate their themes.
For the story “My Mother Pieced Quilts” is a symbol of the mothers love for her family because the author believes the mother glues the family together with the strong lover she has. On page fifty-five the author establishes “You were the river current caring the roaring notes” the reason the author added this sentence into the story is to imagine how much the mother cares and because it’s talking about the mothers deep affection for her family.
On page fifty-five, line forty-six it states “Oh mother you plunged me sobbing and laughing into our past” which is a bit overwhelming. The reason the author acknowledged this is because she is thinking about the past with her mother, they have a great past so she is remembering all the thing they did. Plus she is giving the credits to her mom for sewing for twenty-five years as the story says.

As another thing on page fifty-five, line fifty-four and fifty-five it added “stretched out they lay armed/ready/shouting/celebrating” which means that the quilt is ready to be used.

The reason the author puts this in the story is because it is telling you how exciting they are by finishing the quilt, that it is all about love because the mother knotted it for a bit years and it still stands out.
Lastly, on page fifty-four, line twenty-one and twenty-two it states “galloping along the frayed edges, tucking them in as you did us as night.” This acknowledges how the mother still tucks them in no matter what happen and that she will always care for them. There is a lot of things that the mother will do for her children no matter the

situation.
“Everyday Use”
In this short story of “Everyday Use” it states on how they live, how they feel and if they get along or not so much. This story is inspiring by Alice Walker, the way Alice writes this story makes us think that we need to be grateful on what we have and not just be rude plus selfish.
On page fifty-eight it protested the mother explaining how she looks like because Dee wants her to look like someone else instead of that. As it stated in the paragraph she admits how she looks like “In real life I am a large, big-boned woman with rough, man-working hands” she wants you to image how she looks like but exactly she is living how she wants and will never forget where she came from. She even told them that she is not going to change herself for anyone, she is her own person and will continue doing that, she doesn’t need them to happy but at least she is happy.
In a matter of fact Dee is the careless person in the story and as the story states on page sixty-two “She was taking a blue streak over the sweet potatoes” and this means that Dee was taking interest in stuff but wasn’t moving forward. The way that we feel is that Dee only thinks about herself plus she is very selfish. I’m not really sure why Dee doesn’t want to move forward with things. One more thing about Dee being all careless is on page fifty-nine is states “Have you ever seen a lame animal, perhaps a dog run over by some careless person rich enough to own a care, slide up to someone who is ignorant enough to be kind to him?” the author wants you to imagen how Maggie walks and that she will always be careful in the world.