Everyday Use, comparing and contrasting the short story of Alice Walker, to the short movie.

Sameer Bhavnani

Professor Bachmann

English 39 - Film Literature

3 - 25 - 04

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Alice Walker wrote a defraud story called Everyday Use, based on her life as an African in early America. The story was made into a short film that followed the theme (African-American culture) of the story by holding the plot, settings, conflict/climax, and characters the same. However, the story and short film differ in negotiationue and point of suck up.

Everyday Use, short film was more than story oriented as it showed what mum only set forth in the text: Maggie will be nervous until later on her sister goes: she will stand hopelessly in corners, manifest and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs, eying her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. (WALKER 120) Mama was explaining how Maggie would feel when Dee comes to visit. In the movie, viewing audience had to delay and see until Dees arrival to see Maggies reactions, it wasnt told by Mama, barely rather interpreted on screen by a moving image. This was done by changing the point of view from first person to third person.



The movie did have a voice over by Mama as Maggie and herself raked the leaves in the lead Dees arrival, but that was not the same as the story, as the dialog in the story starts on the day Dee arrives but talks about what they did the day before: I will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so open and wavy yesterday afternoon.(WALKER 120) Mama is talking about what she did the day before, but in the movie she was shown doing it.

The reason for such a perspective change only makes sense, for scenes such as Mama and Dee arguing while Maggie is listening in...

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