ENG 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Alice Walker

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1120
• Professor: Natalie Taylor

Document Summary

Compare with the boat, two kinds, borders. The mother seems to be obsessed with dee rather than maggie. The mother is less overbearing than the mother in the boat. The mother is not stupid and rather quiet smart. But she is identifying herself more as an african you don"t ask questions don"t draw attention to yourself. A matter of life or death living for mrs. johnson. Dee is rejecting the name that probably was given to a slave by a slave owner. The mother is fighting for her family"s history. The family has survived through everything the name is a symbol.