This story portrays stereotypes, racism, and struggles, which relate to the previous books Malcolm X and Birth of a nation. The struggles that blacks went through definitely makes me appreciate how far people have evolved and the era that I live in. A Worn Path would be read from a third-person’s viewpoint. As you read the tale it allows you to picture it from a distance and let the readers interpret the reading in their own perspective. “unimaginable in any hands but hers” (Fitzgerald 494).
However, she got back to her senses and carried on thorough her journey. Her courage is unmistakably shown during her encounter with the hunter. Phoenix had fallen down after a big black dog had surprised her and was unable to get back on her feet. A young man who was passing by kindly helps the old woman up from the ground. At first he appears kind, asking if she had broken anything and telling her that she would be better retuning back home.
Short Term We could all take a lesson from crayons: Some are sharp, some are beautiful, some have weird names, all are different colors; but they all have to learn to live in the same box. Rosa Parker had a hard time fighting for rights of her own and black community, black community also united themselves for their rights and ultimately efforts of them paid off. She fought against injustice of Whites and after her great efforts and decisive attitude, she got black community united and got rights which every human deserves. Black community before the Civil Movement were given no rights and always were victim of inferiority. Her efforts for rights is example for anyone in this world to strive for own legal rights.
The project of finding a voice, with language as an instrument of injury and salvation, of selfhood and empowerment, suggests many of the themes that Hurston uses as a whole. Zora Neale Hurston draws attention towards her novels because she uses black vernacular speech to express the consciousness of a black woman and to let the reader know exactly how statements are said. This use of the vernacular is particularly effective in Their Eyes Were Watching God. Their Eyes Were Watching God exposes the need of Janie Crawford's first two husbands for ownership of space and mobility with the suppression of self-awareness in their wife. Only with her final lover, Tea Cake, who's interest orbit around the Florida swamps, does Janie at last glow.
Hurston’s Views on Race Zora Neale Hurston’s essay “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” is about her unique opinion on race. Zora describes to reader what it is like to be a colored girl in that treacherous, but yet rewarding era of the Harlem renaissance. In Hurston’s 1928 essay, “How it feels to Be Colored Me,” Hurston shows her attitude about racism in America through the rhetorical strategies of imagery, theme, and tone. She uses imagery to show the beauty of her opinion. Hurston uses a spectacular form of imagery in “How It Feels to Be Colored Me.” She describes her details with excellent precision.
She is extremely well behaved and has to sacrifice her inner desires to be wild for the greater good of society. The small dog or arrow is pointing to the black dog, because the larger black dog contrasts to the little girl. The black dog is natural and unleashed. This dog defies civilization and contrasts with the little girl who has to live by a set of regulations for an ideal society. Paul Gauguin’s, “Where do we come from?
Plot: The exposition of the story is about Phoenix Jackson an elder negro women with her courage and determination to go against all the odds against her that gives the impact in the story, The rising action of this story begins shortly after Phoenix Jackson went deeper and deeper down the road between high green colored banks. Overhead the live-oaks met, and it was as dark as a cave. When suddenly a black dog came out the weeds. She thought to herself “ That black dog come out of the weeds to stall you off and now there he sitting on his fine tail, smiling at you”. Soon after a young white man with a gun comes along and he laughs at Phoenix and ask what she was doing there.
When she came back to visit, she had changed her name to Wangero which she believed represented her heritage more so than “being named after the people who oppress me” (112). Dee’s personal struggle to overcome the oppression directly parallels the African American community’s struggle to overcome oppression. The evolution of the African American community in society can creatively be seen through Alice Walker’s development of the characters Mama, Maggie, and Dee. Walker also uses possessions to creatively represent the heritage of the family. Through the three characters, Walker symbolizes the struggles and success of the African American community.
The Struggle Continues Many feminists addressed the plight of African American women during the New Negro movement in the US. They shared the same problems and visions but some differ in strategy. The African American educator Elise McDougald’s essay “The Struggle of Negro Women for Race and Sex Emancipation” employs an interesting strategy to gain individuality amongst African American women. While displaying the direct issues similar to those of her allies, McDougald approaches her antagonists with an unusual method. This was an extremely audacious essay and a great subject to debate for that reason.
Saunders’ help when she tells Char “…I am not ugly, I am not stupid, I am Maleeka Madison, and ya I’m black, real black, and if you don’t like it, too bad, cause black is the skin I’m in!” (Pg.167). This quote shows how much adversity Maleeka has overcome, seeing how she didn’t have the guts to stand up to Char like this earlier in the book but she did now. This also tells us how much stronger Maleeka has become due to the problems and bullying facing her. Maleeka has overcome the most adversity because she had to deal with Char’s bulling by standing up for herself, resisting to burn Miss. Saunders classroom and telling her that it was Char’s idea to burn the classroom in the first place.