Redefining Stereotypes In Brent Staples essay, “Black Men and Public Spaces” he candidly examines his experiences of being a stereotyped black man. Always feeling like he has to avoid others, or walk on the opposite side of the street just to make people feel comfortable around him. Staples’ personal accounts as well as the life he lived and the things he witnessed as a child influenced the thoughts and ideas for his essay. Through his quick establishment of his own authority and the tones he uses makes this essay literarily effective. Right away, Staples begins claiming authority.
to criticize the radicalism. Hughes tried to enlighten the poor black men likewise Mrs. Jones would teach Roger “right from wrong” in this novel. When this novel was written in 1959, the problems of the poor black men were very serious in a racial society. Although they are eager to have the American Dream, it was frustrated by racial discrimination. As the result, the poverty was inherited to next generation repeatedly.
“I read about it in the paper, in the subway, on my work, I read it, and I couldn’t believe it and I read it again. I was scared, scared for Sonny” (Baldwin 52). The fact that the Brother reads about Sonny’s dilemma in the newspaper is a prime indicator that he and his brother is at odds with each other. Despite the separation between the two brothers, the Narrator’s fear is real because Sonny is his brother and kinfolks look out for each other. According to the writer, “he became real to me again” (Baldwin 52).
The fact that Sonny is a heroin addict would not be surprising to a reader of this short story if they were educated on the city of Harlem. Sonny’s drug addiction greatly reflects where he grew up because he wanted to escape from reality and the only way he knew how was to do drugs. When he was high he didn’t have to face the reality of his life which he knew was heading in the wrong direction. If Sonny had grown up in a better area then heroin might have never been a part of his life. Although Harlem isn’t a great place to live in the author made it
WUTHERING HEIGHTS Argumentative essay Wuthering heights written by Emily Bronte is a story about an orphaned boy named Heathcliff brought in by Mr.Earnshaw who suffers at the hands of others, gains the sympathy of the readers. However his thirst for revenge destroys several innocent lives and thus earns him the status of a villain. Heathcliff one of the main characters of “Wuthering Heights” is the protagonist and also the antagonist of the story. To justify this we see that at the beginning of the book he is a protagonist and the readers feel sympathetic towards him. But as we go further we see his character change from a protagonist to an antagonist.
There is brotherly love, love for art, and love through compassion. Ironically, the narrator learns to love art through misery as he sees his brother pour his pain and suffering into his music. “I was remembering, and it made it hard to catch my breath, that I had been there when he was born; and I had heard the first words he had ever spoken. When he started to walk, he walked from our mother straight to me. I caught him just before he fell when he took the first steps he ever took in this world.” (5) It is this greater than sibling connection between the narrator and Sonny which causes the narrator to care for Sonny almost like a father.
“Sonny Blues” written by James baldwin is a story written in 1957 told in first-person singular narrative style. The story begins with the narrator, who reads about his younger brother named Sonny who has been caught in a heroin bust. The narrator then goes about his day However, he cannot get his mind off Sonny. He thinks about all the boys in his class, who don’t have bright futures and are most likely doing drugs, just like Sonny. Throughout the story the unnamed narrator struggles to embrace sonny for who is, its not until the end of the story when the narrator goes to one of Sonny’s Jazz shows, where he fully understands and truly fathoms who Sonny really is as a person and musician.
Gangsta rap and American Culture Should censorship come at a price of complete social exile. In “Gangsta Rap and American Culture” Micheal Eric Dyson a baptist minister, father, and prestigious writer and educator explains his views on Gangsta rap both good and bad. Micheal Eric Dyson background allows him to understand how rap came to be. However Dyson doesn't agree with how the government accuses gangsta rap for the downfall of black youth. All in all Dyson's main points to his argument is understanding how rap came to be, the negative and positive images that gangsta rap portrays to the black community, and acknowledging that rap music shows true beliefs about growing up in bad black neighborhoods.
Coming from a low-income family and being black as a disadvantage affected their way of seeing life. Young men feel the weight of limited possibilities. The narrator has assimilated into white society as much as possible, but stills feel the pain of racism and the limits placed upon opportunity. In the same manner both characters want to find their identity into the world, for Sonny it is on becoming a Jazz musician and for Desiree it is finding who she is and where she comes from seeing that she was adopted and that she conceived a mixed skin color baby. Furthermore, we will be able to find differences in the two stories by looking at the
Because of his addiction, he is thrown out of his home by his parents. His father smacks him in the face, calls him trash and throws him out on the street. Not long after Lucky finds Dove. Dove is a drug dealer who decides to help Lucky and takes him into his home, where Lucky is to be his runner. Lucky seems happy to be working for Dove as well as living with him and there seem to be a light ahead for him.