Literature Core (1080-01 S2022)
The short story “The First Day,” written by Edward P. Jones, demonstrates the struggles of black education and disconnect within the school system. The process of the mother and daughter on their way to the first day of school magnifies the inequality of the school system. By closely reading and following their journey one is…
Identify: In her short story Shift, Nalo Hopkinson combines detailed visual imagery and second-person narration. With this combination, she describes Caliban’s actions like the stage directions of a play. One example of the combination is when the golden girl transforms Caliban into different things: “She takes your face in her hands, turns your eyes away…
In Edward P Jones’, “A Butterfly on F street”, it shows the geography of where the story took place. The geography is used to show a difference between cultures and financial situations of white families and families of color. This story is emphasizing that when it comes to wealth and privileges there is a difference…
In her short story White Rat, Gayl Jones “curses” White Rat with a black club-footed baby after he decides to leave his black family and visit the white bar. By cursing him after he visits the white bar, Jones portrays how Rat essentially goes back on his ‘vow’ of being black and examines the idea…
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(You should have received an email with the below contents as well.) End of Semester Announcements – Please Read Carefully A] On Exhibit Day, Thursday 5/5 Our Final Project Exhibit Day is tomorrow, Thursday, May 5th. It will take place during our regularly scheduled class period and in our regular room in Stokes North. Please invite folks…
REMINDERS Please remember to indicate which journal entry (or entries) you want me to read at the end of this form. Along with this form be sure to also submit, your featured journal entry (or entries) as well as documentation of your whole physical journal (if you have not already shown me your physical journal…
In the poem “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks the use of cutting sentences in half allows for the juxtaposition of the subject “We” and the action. This creates emphasis not only on the “We” but also what follows it. Brooks does this by using visual representation, repetition of the word “We”, and using couplets.…
In the short story “Brownies,” by ZZ Packer there is a strong sense of disconnect between the troop of black girls and the white girls in Troop 909. Based on this quote from page 5, “When you live in the south suburbs of Atlanta, it is easy to forget about whites. Whites were like those…