"Everyday Use" and "A Pair of Tickets" In "Everyday Use," Alice Walker writes about a black mother and her two daughters, Maggie and Dee. Both the mother and Maggie are traditional characters, who are proud of their black heritage. However, Dee is the opposite of her mother and sister. She has false thoughts of her heritage. In "A Pair of Tickets," the author, Amy Tan, describes Jing Mei's change in her view of her Chinese …showed first 75 words of 1298 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1298 total…the comparison between how mother and Maggie, or the behavior of the mother and Maggie to cherish their family and heritage and Dee's false idea of her heritage. However, "A Pair of Tickets" has a happy ending, and the narrator Jing Mei-realizes that she is Chinese and changes her mind about her heritage from her understanding of her sisters, her mother and China. The travel to China leads her to a new area of herself.