Gerda has used Jane Schaffer writing strategy in displaying various themes in the book. One of the themes is sustaining power of hope. The topic sentences of paragraphs that contain bad information are powerful and contain information about hope. Gerda went through a lot of misfortune for example her parents were sent to camps and died there and she was sent on a death march. However, she never lost hope and this is shown by the first sentences.
We can learn many things from these entries like the hardships faced by African Americans, Racism, Morality and much more. As we all know, Blacks were treated unfairly, but we wouldn’t have been aware of all this brutality if it wasn’t for Historical Diary Entries. With this being said, and after a few hours of reading, I believe that the Slaves demonstrated a Passive Resistance. According to Harriet Jacob a slave girl, life as a slave was scary. While living with her master at an early age, she was living a life of fear.
“The Awakening” and double consciousness Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening” is one of the most influential yet controversial literary pieces of its time. It is a staple of American Literature and its breaking down of gender roles along with its unprecedented modernist views make it an essential piece to teach in this class. The journey of self-discovery Edna goes through is one that many college students and young adults can relate to; the search for balance between what society asks of us and our personal desires and dreams. Chopin’s story represents a struggle we can all learn from in some way. The first lesson that students can take from this story is acknowledgment of societal control gender roles placed on people.
| Book Review | | English 135 | | Book Review | | English 135 | Professor Lisa Shuchter July 22, 2012 Professor Lisa Shuchter July 22, 2012 A good book to me is one that can catch my attention from the first sentence and keep my attention throughout the entire book. I love well written books that I can visualize with as I am reading. I love an author that can use words and phrases to keep me guessing throughout the book, it gives me the urge to want to know what is going to happen next. I want to keep reading to get to the end to fully understand what the author’s purpose is. I love a story that is very detailed because it gives me the chance to place myself in the story and really get into it.
The ways that Anne views the war with her eyes makes it easy to relate to her. In certain entries from her diary, it is looks like I wrote the diary entry and we both just want to live. Although Anne did not survive, her famous diary shows millions of readers just what type of person Anne would have been after the war. Throughout the book, several countries are mentioned. Each teenager wrote about where they grew up.
An American Author: Zora Neale Hurston Zora Neale Hurston’s brought her culture to main stream America through her writing about her life and her African American culture. As a child she went through many things with her mother dying, her father beating her and treating her terrible, and being passed around her family from house to house. Some way some how she managed to make it through it all. Zora played a major part in the Harlem Renaissance and was an excellent novelist. That is why she has become a wonderful writer of today’s literature.
Eric Joseph February 15, 2013 Incidents in the life of a slave girl The effects this narrative had on me were more surprising than originally expected. I knew about this story from the little that we learned about it before hand. While being an intense piece of reading it would truly open our eyes to the true horrors the slaves faced every day. In the case of Harriet Jacobs, her first person account gives the reader a viewpoint of horrible struggles and exhilarating triumphs she experienced in her life. This narrative not only explores her life and personal details, but also, in the bigger picture, makes us realize that we are so lucky not to have to deal with the horrors of being a slave like she was.
When I first started reading this book, at first I wasn’t interested then I started reading more and it started getting interesting. The main idea of this novel is just telling how Janie, the main character, was raised by her grandmother during slavery days and what she was taught about love and how to love. The author says a lot about the book in so many ways. Just by
I believe that the moral of the story is to be independent as well as persistent in what you want as long as it is not to harming anything or anyone. As it had been mentioned in the story the younger usher had never had to let anyone know that has been the church that they had to leave, but the old lady was not going to go anywhere as for in the story the old lady did brush the usher away “for she did not pay him any attention, just muttered, "Go 'way," in a weak sharp bothered voice, waving his frozen blond hair and eyes from near her face.” (Clugston, 2010, sec. 3.1) That is the old lady being persistent and knowing that she is going to hear the message that is being said. Even though the old lady was not wanted there, clearly an act of racism, they did not know if the old lady was suffering of depression. “Racist incidents are associated with symptoms of psychological suffering and emotional disturbance, such as depression, general distress, generalized anxiety, and hyperarousal, and physical reactions, for Whites, Asians, Hispanics, American Indians, and African Americans “ (as cited in Carter, 2013) Maybe she just wanted to hear the message before going on to her next journey.
Debra Hall Eng 111 Sept. 24, 2013 Writing assignment #2 The Migrant Mother The “Great Depression” caused many struggles and challenges for her family. She became an icon of the Depression, by the “Migrant Mother” pictures. Her story is a story of the many hardships and struggles of the American people during this depressing and impoverished time, and her story also encouraged the American people to become more giving and thoughtful to those in need and suffering. She was the average, everyday American wife in those days and times. Her name was Florence Owen.