Literature Core (1080-01 S2022)
One formal element of the text “Sweetness” that is important to how the text presents content is in the final two paragraphs. The narrator’s dialogue on Lula ann is essential to understanding the true feelings she has for her. Throughout the text, the narrator shows embarrassment and envy towards her child, Lula. Ever since she…
In the first paragraph of “Blackness” by Jamaica Kincaid, the narrator describes a sense of blackness that she feels around her at all times. She begins to describe this phenomenon by saying that it is something that “can not be separated from her but she can often stand outside of it”. This blackness causes the…
In the short story “New York Day Women,” the narrator follows her mother throughout the streets of Manhattan. The narrator tells us that her family is Haitain and reveals that her mother has many objections to American culture. The woman rarely leaves Brooklyn, so her daughter is shocked to see her staring into the windows…
For your first project check-in, you and your group should discuss and thoughtfully answer the below questions about your project. At this early point in the process, some of the questions may seem hard to answer. Try to answer them anyways. Trying to answer the questions is part of the brainstorming and thinking you need…
Reflection on Content Describe a few of the connections you see between your different entries? As you reflect on your entries, do you notice any patterns? Do you find any tensions between your thoughts in one entry and your ideas in another? Are their contradictions in how you’re thinking in one entry and how you’re…
And Love Them? is a short story written by the black American author, Thomas Glave. Published in 2000, Glave writes through the perspective of a white, New York City business woman, emphasizing her ambivalence towards her experiences with black people. Her monologue depicts an attempt to justify her bigotry through recollection of interactions with black…
And Love Them? is a short story written by Thomas Glave, a black author from the Bronx, and is told from the perspective of a presumably white woman working in New York City. Throughout her narrative, the unnamed narrator details her personal experiences with black people and airs her frustration with their seemingly angry disposition,…
“And Love Them?” is a short story was published in 2000 by Thomas Glave, a black author and activist from the Bronx. The story is an inner discussion with the thoughts from a white woman’s perspective. The story her thoughts tell is her perception of black people. She her thoughts has a constant battle with…
Backwacking, a Plea to the Senator is a text written in 1977 by Ralph Ellison. This narrative is about a citizen who wrote a letter to the Senator. In the letter, the white man is complaining about an abominable physical practice, according to him, among black people that he calls “backwacking”. During his piece, the…
“And Love Them?” is a short story published in 2000 by an African American author named Thomas Glave. This story is told from the perspective of a very ignorant white woman who’s self-centered nature makes it difficult for her to understand people different from her, specifically African American people. Glave gives examples of the narrator’s…