Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 3, University of Graz (Amerikanistik), course: Literary Proseminar, language: English, abstract: This term paper aims at finding parallels by comparing the two short stories Everyday Use by Alice Walker and The Storyteller by Leslie Marmon Silko in a way that will prove that in both texts simple traditions generate a sense of community, amount to essential elements of cultural heritage and develop homeplaces into sites of resistance aspiring to cultural survival of heritage and the community values.