Studying elements of fiction in "Every Day Use" by Alice Walker.
             Alice Malsenior Walker, an African-American writer, was born on February 9, 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia, the eight and youngest child of Minnie Tallulah Grant Walker and Willie Lee Walker. Her parents were poor sharecroppers but tried to help their children to improve. At the age of eight, Alice received a facial scar that caused her to become solitary and timid. In her solitude, she discovered the pleasure of reading stories. At the same time, she began to write poems. After finishing first in her high school class, walker left the rural south to attend to college. She attended Atlanta's Spelman College for women. Years later Walker incorporated this condition into her portraits of Meridian Hill and the students of Saxon College, her fictionalized Spelman. Her second collection of poems the Revolutionary Petunias (1973) became a National Book Award nominee. In 1963 Walker transferred to Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, where she broadened her knowledge of the world beyond the south. She graduated in 1965 from Sarah Lawrence and she had resolved to become a writer. In 1966, she had her first publication, "The Civil Rights Movement: How Good Was It?, which won the American scholar essay contest. Later on she got married with Melvyn Leventhal, a civil rights lawyer and conscientious objector to the Vietnam War in 1967 (Graalman 350).
             The story "Every Day Use" by Alice Walker is a good example of the use of some elements of fiction in a short story. This story talks about the heritages of the characters and the way that each of them believes in their culture. In the story, there are two elements that are more significant to the reader that are the character and the complication.
             Back in 1944 when Alice Walker was born, the technology and many other things were in evolution. In 1944, the 3M company began doing experiments...