Ayim, Blues In Black And White Analysis

In the above poem Ayim tries to fit in her hyphenated/two part identity into one inseparable whole. Although she states that: “[her] fatherland is Ghana, [her] mother tongue is German” (Ayim, Blues in Black and White 46), her Afro-German identity is adaptive to and inclusive in her surroundings: “I have been living and working in West Berlin and feel more at home in this city than anywhere else” (Blues in Black and White 47). However, racism causes her to feel estranged even after the unity of the two Germanys: “The new “We” in “this our country”—Chancellor Kohl’s favorite expression—did not and does not have a place for everyone” (Blues in Black and White 48). Not all immigrants are treated on equal footing. Some, including Black Germans of course, are categorized as foreigners “and cannot be real Germans” (Blues in Black and White 51).

Speech Sounds 1) Summary A mysterious disease has swept across the nation and deprived many of their abilities of communication; speeches, literacy, as well as the lives of numerous people were lost. Rye, after the death of her family to the disease, was making a trip to Pasadena out of loneliness and desperation in search of her remaining relatives. While riding on the bus Rye encountered Obsidian, a man dressed in police uniform trying to restore peace in a society where miscommunication led to violence and government was obsolete.

The neighbors tell the children that Mr. Bob Ewell insulted Atticus and swore revenge on the morning. The author always leaves suspense at the end of each chapter. When Mr. Ewell starts to take despicable actions rather than litigate ordinarily, Atticus and the children may face greater

He describes the childhood friend of Sonny as being “high and raggy” and smelling “funky,” and later a woman as having a “battered face” and being a “semi-whore” (68-69). These vivid character descriptions sharply contrast the strong lack of environmental descriptions found at the beginning of the story. These environmental descriptions are not yet found because Sonny has not yet come back to the city. Since the environment is used as a tool for describing the relationship between the brothers, it can not be described fully until the relationship is at play. As soon as the narrator is reunited with Sonny, he begins to fully describe his surroundings.

In the poem “I, Too, Sing America” this is shown using negation. In the beginning of the poem the narrator is talking about what it is not to be part of America, like not being able to eat in the kitchen with everyone else because he is a black man (Hughes 13); however toward the end he shows how he believes that will change. “Tomorrow,/ I'll be at the table/ When company comes/ Nobody’ll dare/ Say to me/ ‘Eat in the kitchen’”

“Dear people, thank you for the food and stuff’ (McCarthy 146). The way the father repeatedly says “Oh my God”, when throughout the book he doesn’t show religious

[You’re Name] [Course Name] [Professor Name] [Date] Theme of Culture and Heritage in Everyday Use Novel by Alice Walker The given novel named “Everyday Use” has been written by Alice Walker which gives the individual’s relationship to his or her culture that holds particular importance in one’s life.

," illustrates the irony of the cumulation of the American dream as it begins to crumble. The Youngers desperately pursue this American dream, hoping for opportunities of prosperity, upward social mobility, and the hope that their next generation should thrive unlike theirs. Working together, Hughes’ lines of his poem reflect the dreams of Hansberry’s characters and through this parallel, shows the effects on the Younger family when their long-awaited dreams are deferred by endless economic and family hardships as well as arduous racial boundaries. “Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?” (Hughes 2-3).

From her parents Morrison learned how to face racism. She uses her novel to describe and show the suffrage of the black people. Morrison's novel highlights and shows the result of the migration from the rural south to the urban north from 1930s to 1950s. The migrants lost their sense of community and identity.

If the african’s hadn’t had to “[wake] up to forced labour and thinly veiled slavery on colonial plantations” and other actions of the colonizers which put their nation into such poverty, then their mothers wouldn’t so desperately need money (Aidoo, 123). This is a perfect example of the claim Hamilton makes that “a common experience throughout the age of diaspora has been the persistence of oppression, radicalization, prejudice and discrimination, political disenfranchisement, and hostile social environments” (Hamilton, 7). Sissie then goes on

His birth date is unknown but Frederick always celebrated it on February 14th. He worked with his mom until he was about ten years old. His mom had died when he was ten. He then was sent to Baltimore. To sum it up, Frederick Douglass had a hard complicated childhood.

Like mentioned above, nobody strived to better their lives. Jack Kerouac, an American novelist and poet wrote, “At lilac evening I walked with every muscle aching among the lights of 27th and welton in the denver colored section, wishing I was Negro, feeling the best the white world had offered was not enough ecstasy for me, not enough life, joy, kicks, darkness, music, not enough night... I wished I were a Denver Mexican..” These few lines show how whites had everything handed to them. He admires the other races that had to work in order to live among the whites and those who fight everyday to fight racism, segregation, etc.

In many ways the Congo changes the young fourteen-year-old girl into a strong independent woman. There are many encounters in the novel where she starts to question her faith in God as well as in her father. For example, hearing stories about rubber plantation workers getting their hands chopped off because they were not able to get the desired about of rubber startles Leah and makes her question race relations. Race becomes a dominant issue at this point and her experiences in Kilanga have invalidated all she had been taught about race in America. At this point, Leah starts to go on her own and figure out whom she is.

The author tells that the dreams this land promises might have a different outcome for many. The fact that this country promises freedom and equality for everyone with different ethnicities, skin colors or genders does not always seems to be the case. ”I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart / I am the Negro bearing slavery’s scars / I am the red man driven from the land /

Lena Younger was a real example of Black America 's struggles to reach the American Dream when her American Dream was to purchase a house in the suburbs as a means of escaping the debilitating effects of their current slum living conditions but then later was deffered by Karl Lindner ( a white man from Clybourne Park Assosiaction ) who trys to convince them using aggressive tacits to not move into the all white neighborhood.