Compare and Contrast Literary Works
Compare and Contrast Literary works. 1
Compare and Contrast, Literary works
Instructor Ross
Introduction to Literature
Sheila Weaver
September 5, 2011
I have chosen two stories of Country lovers and what it’s like to be a black girl because they are both about young black girls that are trying hard to make it in a hard world as they both make mistakes while they try so hard. One of the girls fell in love with a white man in a country where inter racial relationships were not allowed and I don’t think they are allowed still today. The white boy had went away to school while the girl was left behind to work and do what she was suppose to be doing and they spent time together when he would come home for vacations and holidays, when one time when he came home, they had met at the river, as they did as kids to play around the old trees, and they ended up making love, which was definitely not allowed.
Both stories are about black girls that are growing up in poverty stricken communities and are both brought up to do whatever they were told to do whether they wanted to do it or not and no matter what it was. The girl in “What its like to be a black girl,” says “it’s like being a nine year old” (Clugston, R. Introduction to Literature 2010) from the way that it sounds, she isn’t happy with her life as a black girl, she seems to be unhappy as she mentions “dropping food color into her eyes to make them blue” (Clugston, R. Introduction to Literature, 2010). She also said that she wanted to pour bleach over her hair to make it look like a mop head, she speaks of jumping rope like it’s a fun thing to do, but also like it is all that she has to do for fun where she lives. She talks like she lives in a “ghetto” community, or what is described as a community where there is a lot of violence, she explains where she lives as a community where you watch the news and hear all about things that happen there. In the long run she wants to be loved
Compare and Contrast, Literary works
Instructor Ross
Introduction to Literature
Sheila Weaver
September 5, 2011
I have chosen two stories of Country lovers and what it’s like to be a black girl because they are both about young black girls that are trying hard to make it in a hard world as they both make mistakes while they try so hard. One of the girls fell in love with a white man in a country where inter racial relationships were not allowed and I don’t think they are allowed still today. The white boy had went away to school while the girl was left behind to work and do what she was suppose to be doing and they spent time together when he would come home for vacations and holidays, when one time when he came home, they had met at the river, as they did as kids to play around the old trees, and they ended up making love, which was definitely not allowed.
Both stories are about black girls that are growing up in poverty stricken communities and are both brought up to do whatever they were told to do whether they wanted to do it or not and no matter what it was. The girl in “What its like to be a black girl,” says “it’s like being a nine year old” (Clugston, R. Introduction to Literature 2010) from the way that it sounds, she isn’t happy with her life as a black girl, she seems to be unhappy as she mentions “dropping food color into her eyes to make them blue” (Clugston, R. Introduction to Literature, 2010). She also said that she wanted to pour bleach over her hair to make it look like a mop head, she speaks of jumping rope like it’s a fun thing to do, but also like it is all that she has to do for fun where she lives. She talks like she lives in a “ghetto” community, or what is described as a community where there is a lot of violence, she explains where she lives as a community where you watch the news and hear all about things that happen there. In the long run she wants to be loved