Mama,”(474) “not Dee Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo” (474) . She relates herself more to her African root but she is not fully educated about it. For example when her mother explain her daughter that we follow this family name after your aunt Dicie. She wants to let her daughter know about her background as Wangero askes her mother “Who she named after” her mother replying her “after Grandma Dee” so these questions shows that she wants to know about her ancestors. Dee realize and gives value to each and every single piece of her house equipment’s now for example When they are eat she says to her mother “Oh, Mama” (475) “I never knew how lovely these benches are. You can feel the rump prints,” (475) and moreover she looks at the churn and look at it very carefully and says “this churn top is what I need” (476) so she takes the churn but when she asks “Mama” (476) “can I have the old quilts too” (476) her mother says “the truth is I promised to give them the quilts to Maggie, for when she marries John Thomas.”(477). so since her mother always provides everting for Dee this time she decides to give the quilts to Maggie she rejects Dee’s request.
