Have you ever woke up from your lovely dream to wake up to the sound of crying children the sound of strong rubber whips hitting the back of a black man or women well I wish u will never have to. People I am here to day to change transformed and modify your thoughts on slavery and show you the brutal part of it and why slaves should have the same freedom as everyone else. To start a speech I would like to say that everyone has a right even if your white brown or even black you have the write to stand up and have a say what in your in heart and I know what’s in your heart is not pleasant what I’m trying to say is that give the slaves a chance and they will show you how they shine in society. Secondly I would like to say that if you feel happy when you’re shouting at the slaves and commanding them to get you a glass of water, I hope not, but if you do you’re a cold hearted person. I would like to ask you a question; would you like it if your son or daughter was a slave I guess not well we can stop this before it gets out of hand we can stop this abomination.
She even said “I could let the DeRosier’s suck out my dignity for now and I could pretend they had me where they wanted me. But my future would belong to me" (51). The rape was a very defining moment for April. She thought she would never trust a man again, that she was going crazy, and how she believed she was the rapists’ property. The
I believe this is not only true for the women’s stories in this book, but true for all women. It is very hard for to pick one particular story within this book that touched me the most, they were all powerful and had such interesting details. However in chapter two “Prohibition and Prostitution” they speak about how people get away with enslaving and trafficking village girls. The idea is to crush modern slavery, but for political reasons this does not always happen. It is known that crackdowns do exist and with the right help, training and rehabilitations these girls and women can feel they have purpose and worth.
This would mean an entirely different lifestyle for African Americans. There was still racism going on, but no African American was considered a slave. By ending slavery this forced the south to find a new way of supporting themselves and working their cash crops. In 1863 President Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation meaning that all people that were held as slaves within the United States shall be forever set free. But this did not end slavery in the nation.
Devin Nicholson Nicholson 1 Ms. McLennan ENG 4UV-01 July 17, 2014 ISP Reader’s Journal 1. When I was halfway through the book I was completely aware that in the short term and long term of me reading the book Aminata was in constant danger of death. Aminata is always looking at the long term future and the chance of becoming free because if she was looking just at the short term she would have probably given up at the first sign of trouble. In the short term future it always felt as if someone was going to die. Whether it was Aminata’s husband Chekura, or any of the other slaves Aminata was close with it always felt like things were going to take a turn for the worse which left me as the reader on edge.
These struggles were not only political but also personal. Housseine portrays a story of oppression and hope through the eyes of two women in the war scared country. 2. Characters Mariam- “Mariam knew that life had for the most part been unkind to her. But as she walked her final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it” (Pg.
Hansberry shows us that we hurt the ones we love out of desperation despite how much we love them. In this American novel, a main character, Ruth Younger, thinks about aborting her unborn child to stop the baby from burdening the family expenses even more. “You don’t know Ruth, Mama, if you think she would do that.” Walter Younger, Ruth’s husband stated this saying Ruth would never get an abortion, she in fact responds “Yes I would too, Walter. (Pause) I gave her a five-dollar down payment” Ruth at this point is on edge and ready to snap, she wants this baby, but believes that herself and the family wouldn’t be able to handle the money needed for a baby. “Mama, something is happening between Walter and me.
However, each character copes with the aftermath of PTSD differently. Sethe and Paul D try to repress the past; while Baby Suggs and the community itself embraces the re-memory of the past, in hopes of making the future better. Ultimately, Morrison shows that the key to recovering from the past is to confront it by any means necessary. Sethe, the protagonist of the novel, is a slave during the late 18th century who suffers severe brutality from slavery both physically and mentally. Because of this traumatizing experience, she refuses to relinquish her children to the hands of the schoolteacher.
Nanny believed that her decision, which was to have Janie marry Logan Killicks, was out of love. Since Nanny was born, lived in the period of slavery, and was a slave herself, she wanted protection for Janie from being used and abused. Nanny supports her feeling by stating, “‘Tain’t Logan Killicks Ah wants you to have, baby, its protection” (Hurston 15). Nanny was making sure that Janie had a future set in stone without any kind of heartache or discrepancies. Nanny felt by marrying Janie off to Logan, Janie would live to be free and Nanny would not have to worry so much and knew she would be well taken care of.
After her family found out, she was sent to jail. When she gets out in 12 years she is going to be exicuted by her family. The only way around being exicuted is if she marries the man who raped her. The practice of honor killing is most commonly found in middle eastern areas such as Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey. While some might stand by their claim of ethical relativism, and believe that we do not have the right to criticize the practices of honor killing, it is not morally right to stand by silently and watch as innocent people are being murdered.