Culture is something picked up from one generation to next, not suddenly acquired. Making use of culture in everyday life shows a dedication and understanding to the culture. Maggie, the younger daughter, was an example that heritage passes from one generation to another through a learning and experience connection, while her sister misunderstood the impact of heritage and only considered it to be in material objects. This conflict was shared through the mother, and the …showed first 75 words of 419 total…

…showed last 75 words of 419 total…much of her history in it, and changes her name in order to embrace her culture. Her search for her culture is purely materialistic and external because she only wishes to display the items. In her infancy, she never placed importance on any of these things, nor did she have any appreciation when her old house burnt down. Dee criticizes her mother for not understand culture, when she herself never made an effort to learn.