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Family Values in Everyday Use Family Values are the things that matter the most in families whether that be sending everyone to college, everyone being athletic, or everyone having the same letter in the beginning of their middle names. Family values are also described to be the difference in values in different cultures. Families are the basic units of culture, but they vary from race to race, home to home, and from generation to generation. In “Everyday Use” the values consist of culture, heritage, and the importance of values. “Everyday Use”, wrote by Alice Walker was written in 1973, and was published in her collection of In Love and Trouble: Stories of_ Black Women_.() The story consists of 3 women: Mama who is the mother in the story describes herself as a large big-boned woman with rough, man-working hands, Dee the oldest daughter who has a more of a materialistic type feel for things, she’s an intelligent, beautiful, and egotistical woman, and Maggie who is the......

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