It does not have a rhyme pattern because written in free verse. In this poem Thretaway writes about a little African American girl that tells lies that may really don’t matter, but in some point they do. The author describes every image of the poem so that the reader can imagine everything clearly. The first stanza uses lot of color imagery; it uses six colors to describe the lies the little girl, who is the author, told (J. Sirkant). In this stanza the author is also using these colors to describe her skin tone as she was growing up in a black community.
Ben is one of the main characters in this story. He is the son of a racist mum who does not let him play with his brown neighbour Daisy. He is a caring character with a nice personality he does not judge anybody just because of their race. I feel sympathy for him because he in between his mother who is racist and wrong and Daisy who is a sweet brown girl who just wants to play with him, Ben does not know which one to choose as if he chooses his mum he will hurt Daisy and if he chooses Daisy his mum would not be happy at all. He is in an awkward position in this short story.
I honestly think his intensions are good, but the people around him are not. He is being pressured into being this horrible person because he feels like an outsider and he is trying to fit in. Even though Lindo did sell her baby and neglected to tell her, I think he was just trying to find someone that wouldn’t judge him for someone that someone else was making him. Later on in the story when Lindo and Appleby try to claim ownership of Aminata, he was trying his hardest to save her from going back to Appleby’s plantation. “You came all this way to manumit your slave?
This whole relationship towards Isabelle and Azaire seems to be a relationship where Azaire has all the power to do what he likes and Isabelle is not treated as a human being and obeys Azaire. You can tell Isabelle feels she can do nothing about it and has no power of what is happening to her. She feels worthless and she has become used to feeling like that with Azaire always hurting her and she is blamed by
Richard Rodriguez’s passage reveals his attitude towards his family and himself. He uses figurative language to describe his Christmas. He uses selection of detail and tone to express his view. While growing, the living conditions were poor, yet his mother never doubted that her children would become successful and wealthy. Rodriguez remembers hearing her predict the future and the presents they would one day purchase for their old parents.
Hale. John Wright doesn’t seem to be a happy fellow. Not much is said about this character, however; an overwhelming feeling of hatred and meanness radiates from him. Its as if he stiffens the very air he stood in. this very discontent feeling would further add to the very isolation the Glaspell is trying to portray.
This is apparent in his dealings with Jim, the Wilks, and even with the duke and king. His function in the story is as the narrator. “... people will call me a low down abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum...” Jim - Jim is a middle aged slave own by Widow Douglass who ran away near the beginning of the book. He is fatherly, protective, and unselfish. His clothes are tattered and his appearance is not very good since he is a runaway slave without many clothes.
The slave was often discontented upon his realization that he would be a slave for life, and lived a life that was generally passive as a result of his fear of punishment. Slaveholders, on the other hand, became brutal and desensitized. This is a trend that is also often exhibited historically, a person is given power, and they misuse it. One classic example is elucidated in the novel upon Douglasses’ transfer to Baltimore. In his new master’s house the master’s wife, Mrs. Auld, makes the first impression upon him of being simply the most genuine and kind white he had ever meant.
Choosing to end the novel with ‘1973’ also indicates that Alice Walkers wants the reader to place the texts historically, after the years of the apartheid in America, when segregation was law. It also means that the reader may then understand why Dee is so confused about her identity and why her family find it so difficult to move on and away from their southern African American routes. ‘Everyday Use’ is specifically from a woman’s point of view, it is a personal account of a woman’s experience of history. Quilting for example was a huge part of African American culture for women, often associated with the south. ‘In the 1980’s, partially inspired by Walker’s works, many studies, including those by cultural and feminist critics such as Elaine Showalter, explored the relationship between the
Mary Ann Shadd Cary was an African American newspaper publisher, educator, lawyer and abolitionist. She wrote “Why Establish This Paper?” that appeared in the second issue of the Provincial Freeman. After reading the excerpt from it, I was able to identify and analyze a few of techniques Cary used while writing the paper. The first technique that I noticed was personification. This is a figure of speech in which inanimate objects are given human qualities.