What feelings and opinions does Alice Walker evoke in her readers with her short story Everyday Use?

Another
feeling that Alice walker evoked in reading the story is sentimentality.  It is felt by
visualizing the items being discussed in the story as part of the past.  The quilts, the
bench, and the churn were all things made with time, love, devotion and
sometimes hardship. Appreciation is another feeling the story conveyed to me. It made me have a
greater appreciation for things from my past.  I have alot of embroidered pictures, tablecloths
and napkins that my grandmother made and I haven't used them because I've been afraid I would
ruin them, but after reading this story I have begun to use them and reminesce about my own past
and moments that I had with my Grandmother.  The power of words is amazing!  They can make your
life take on a whole new meaning.

What do you know about Nnaemeka's father in "Marriage is a Private Affair"?

Achebe
offers significant details throughout the short story "Marriage is a Private Affair"
that characterize Nnaemeka's father. Nnaemeka's father is depicted as a strict man who abides by
the traditional customs of his tribe. Throughout the short story, Nnaemeka father's shuns his
son for choosing to marry a woman from another tribe on his own. Nnaemeka's father stubbornly
insists that his son follow the traditional custom of marrying the woman his parents choose.
Nnaemeka's father is deeply hurt that his son neglected his advice to marry Ugoye and instead
married Nene. Nnaemeka's father is also depicted as an austere Christian, who constantly reads
the Bible and quotes scripture. However, he is also portrayed as a hypocrite because he does not
demonstrate the Christian ideals of forgiveness and mercy. He harbors hate and resentment in his
heart, which makes him a depressed, conflicted man. Toward the end of the story, Nnaemeka
father's is portrayed as man filled with guilt, who wasted valuable years shunning his son and
grandchildren. 

How did the narrator in "The Black Cat" try to justify his sin?

As an
unreliable narrator, the narrator of "" sets up his entire story to try to excuse his
actions, despite the ruse of trying to "unburden his soul" before his execution. The
sin of killing the first black cat, Pluto, is justified by the narrator's sad slide into
alcoholism. He claims that his: 

"General temperament
and characterthrough the instrumentality of the Fiend Intemperance had (I
blush to confess it) experienced a radical alteration for the worse."

Here the narrator shirks responsibility. Alcoholism is a thing that
happened to him, a villain that attacked him, not a choice he made. When he cuts out Pluto's
eye, his "original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from [his] body." When he
actually kills the cat, he goes on a whole philosophical speech on the destructive nature of
mankind, saying,

"Perverseness is one of the
primitive impulses of the human heartone of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments,
which give direction to the character of Man."

Through all of this confession, the narrator has not fully taken responsibility for his
actions, but rather blamed alcohol, the supernatural, and human fallibility for the death of
Pluto.

When it comes to the murder and burial of his wife, the narrator says
little to justify it, which shouldn't be surprising as he started beating her before he started
beating Pluto when the alcoholic rage started. He merely talks about the fear and hatred of his
second cat boiling him into a frenzy, during which he attacked it with an ax. When his wife
tried to stop him, he couldn't help but kill her instead.

Clearly, the
story's narrator is either insane or completely unwilling to take responsibility for his
choices.

In Chains, what challenges did Isabel face and how do they change her?

Isabel
encounters numerous challenges in her life, especially after the demise of the kindhearted Miss
Finch. However, her most notable challenge is her quest for freedom. Their troubles start
immediately she and her sister are sold off to the Locktons after failing to prove that Miss
Finch had freed her family in a will. Ruth is forced to take on backbreaking labor at the
Locktons estate, which she perseveres through while remaining determined to find a way out to
freedom. She detests the inhumane conditions under which she and her sibling live, and she would
go to any extent to gain freedom.

After her encounter with Curzon, she
becomes a spy and exchanges information with different groups with the hope of gaining freedom
in return. Her hopes do not materialize as the groups only use her to gain crucial information
to advance their agenda. Finally, Isabel realizes that nobody but herself will help her secure
freedom, which she does at the end of the book when she manages to sneak Curzon from prison and
row the boat across the river to Jersey.

Among other challenging encounters
for Isabel is the loss of Ruth. She wakes up one day and discovers that Madam Lockton has sold
Ruth off to another owner. Isabel becomes momentarily defiant, an act that forces her to run
away from Locktons estate only to end up beaten and in jail. The judge rules that she be branded
upon Madam Locktons suggestion. The branding is a painful experience for Isabel; it is a
permanent mark and reminder of her slave status. Isabel sinks into depression soon after due to
the loss of Ruth and her dwindling hope of ever being free. However, her attitude towards her
branding changes, and instead of shame, she takes it as a proud survival symbol, just like the
one her father had.

How is existentialism portrayed in this book?

While
existentialism isn't an overt theme in the book, there are elements of it, nonetheless. One such
element is the need to impose meaning on an inherently meaningless world. That's precisely what
the animals do when they take over the running of the farm from Mr. Jones. Where once they were
slaves, now the animals have meaning and purpose in their lives.

Existential
freedom is another important element. In...

importance of religion what is the importance of religion in our life?

It depends
on the person whether religion is important in one's life.   plays a key role in many peoples
lives, and almost no part in others.  However we all need to be sensitive to religions and
religious differences, so religion is important to everyone.

How is the individual vs. society presented in 1984?

In the case of the
novel, the individual is clearlywho is joined byin his stand against society. The society is the
dystopian future created by the Party, who is shown, from the very beginning of the story, to be
a force that seeks to control not just every aspect of the physical life of their people but
also their psychological, mental and emotional life as well. Independent thought is something
that is the anathema of the party, and the propaganda, the constant fear of surveillance and
everything else about the party is designed to undermine mankind's ability to think
independently and to criticise, dream and imagine. Note the following quote from Book I Chapter
7, which perfectly sums up the society that Winston is in conflict with:

In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and
you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or
later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the
very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy.

This is a key quote, as Winston is looking at a children's history
book and he marvels at the Party's ability to control the minds of its populace and make them
accept what they say as the truth. This quote is therefore about psychological manipulation and
the way that the Party influence their populace to greatly. Winston's stance against this
society is hinged on the simple sum. Note what he writes in his diary: "Freedom is the
freedom to say that two plus two makes four." At the very end of the novel, when he traces
"2+2=5," the reader is shown how his stand against society has been a failure. He
conforms.