Write 5 pages with APA style on The Role of Education in Creating Feelings and Relationships as Shown in Everyday Use by Alice Walker.

“Everyday use” portrays education as an element that is so much sort after for its numerous benefits to the individual and the society. On the other hand, there is a contradicting element linked to this factor. The characters in the book are shown to look for education in order to make a better life out of their current slavery status. The main character who is portrayed to look for this is Dee. She is a slave who desires education to make her situation better. However, she faces a great challenge in her inability to go to the school that she wants.

However, after a lot of sacrifice from her fellow slaves, she attends the school where she gets a lot of ideologies and knowledge. Therefore, she is enlightened in a way that she wants to find the truth. As a result, the positive elements expected from education are not fully achieved. Instead, along formed friendship and family ties are broken and the individuals separated. The lofty ideas and educational opportunity that Dee finds give her a sense of loss of heritage. In turn, she seeks her background, and identity that can only be provided by her family (Walker, 1992).

During the time period between the 1960s and the 1970s, the African Americans did not get the chance to engage in as many activities as the other citizens were. For instance, people from other races were given the opportunity to take part in various educational activities. Education is a principle reason why the knowledge, skills, and values are accumulated and transmitted from one generation to another.