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.
Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo is Dee’s new name. This in an attempt to live what she believes is her heritage while leaving the oppression and poverty behind, which actually has created a wedge between herself and the rest of her immediate family. Symbolism and the use of tangible items used every day bring Dees perception and her mother’s perception of heritage to places that are completely opposite of one another. The story takes place within an oppressed black family in the 1960’s during the Civil Rights movement when young blacks were searching to find themselves and their true African heritage. Mama, which is also the narrator, takes pride in sweeping the dirt in the yard which is referred to as an “extended living room only with a breeze and an ability to look up into the elm tree.” Mama states that she has “deliberately turned her back on her house” and describes it as “not having windows and a tin roof “and seems to be perfectly satisfied with these living conditions.
Later on, Armand burns anything that belongs to Desiree and feels like he doesn’t love her anymore just because the shame she brought to his family. But he finds a letter from his mom saying that she was black. It was not Desiree who carried the Negroid blood, but Armand. 3. The main characters of the story are Desiree and the baby being the protagonist.
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He tries to persuade you to feel a sympathy for the blacks and Native Americans but he puts down the white man and government at the same time. The audience Zinn is trying to reach is anywhere from high school students to adults. His book is unlike Walker, who writes her novel in a story form. This story comes from her family though it was passed down from her great-grandmother. Her story is also semi-fictional as seeing it was passed down there are opportunities to miss or add a part of her story.
The colors also paint a picture of a young girl untrue to herself and the honest proclamation of her betrayal towards her heritage. In order to fully grasp the meaning of the poem, it is important to understand Trethewey’s upbringing. Threthewey was born in Mississippi in 1966 to a black mother and a white father. At a time, interracial marriage was illegal in Mississippi and viewed with a great deal of shame by society. Based off of these facts, a reasonable assumption can be made that the speaker in the poem is indeed Trethewey.
Kaci Godwin Mrs. M. Hogue Advanced English 11 19 April 2012 Literary Analysis of A Raisin in the Sun A Raisin in the Sun, written by Lorraine Hansberry, is a play about a poor African American family during the 1950s. This family, The Youngers, is determined to fulfill their dreams, fight racial discrimination, and discover the importance of family. Three dynamic characters in this play are Walter, Mama, and Beneatha. They each learn important lessons throughout the play. One dynamic character is Walter Lee Younger.
Can You Relate? In the poem, “What It’s Like to Be a Black Girl (for Those of You Who Aren’t),” Patricia Smith delves into what life is like for a young black girl growing up in a tough neighborhood (672-673). The narrator uses imagery and diction to establish the tone and also demonstrate her childhood. She discusses being a girl and growing up and dealing with hard times, and how that leads to the inability to fit in. This therefore causes the narrator to search for love and acceptance in anybody that will give her the attention that she needs.
She writes in order to redirect the generations of misguided African Americans. Her story preaches to her readers that it is crucial to keep and preserve the culture and history of their ancestors. African American history should be as the quilt in the story; it represents the bond of African Americans, “sewn” together, as patches on a quilt. Each patch represents a different generation bonded through cultural tradition. In the story, the quilt illustrates a tale of the struggle of the family’s ancestors, and just as a piece of stitching comes loose Dee helps her family to learn a lesson that keeps the quilt (a family’s ancestral history) intact by sharing it so that others too may learn to become educated in their history and take pride in it.
I Was A Black Girl Charlene T Gaines AFG1204A David Makhanlall 02/12/2012 I Was A Black Girl This paper will dissect the poem What It’s Like to Be a Black Girl (For Those of You Who Aren’t) from a black woman perspective. I will explain the feelings it evoked in me as I read each brilliantly placed word. I will describe my feelings and thought as I reread the words and remembered what it was like to be a black girl growing up. The poem What It’s Like to Be a Black Girl (For Those of You Who Aren’t) was very interesting because I could relate to it. (I am an Black woman who was born in 1968).