In this respect, the film remains remarkably unbiased. Not completely unbiased, however, as the film skirts around the slavery issue and almost eliminates it entirely. I believe it was necessary in maintaining, in a sense, the purity of the film by allowing a Confederate to remain completely the protagonist. The story is not about slavery, thus it was rightly not the focus of the film. I enjoyed the movie and would recommend it due to its mostly unbiased and historically accurate plot that is still enticing enough to capture an audience. More than just a love story or war film, it shows an unexpected perspective of Confederate families, who are usually…
The first time I read the story I was confused to what was going on at first when the setting shifted. After reading the story over again I understood it a lot better. The story started off with Lizabeth siting on a bench waiting to be taken to the Reformatory, but then jumps back to when she lived in Mississippi, when she was much younger. I got lost to why Marita Bonner wrote the begging of the story in the first place until I got to the end of the story, then it all added up. I think that the description supported the message the author was trying to get across.…
I conclude that Winn-Dixie is one of the best books I have ever read.I would rate this book 9 out of 10.I was about to stay home from school, but I knew we were going to read Because Of Winn-Dixie so I came to school.that is how good it is. the book was very intriguing and unquestionably appealing.I think you should read…
The main character in the story is actually prejudiced and makes many statements using racial remarks. For example, Mrs. Turpin, the main character, refers to the higher class woman as “well-dressed and pleasant”. She also labels the teenage girl as “ugly” and the poor woman as “white-trashy”. When Mrs. Turpin talks with her black workers, she often uses the word “nigger” in her thoughts. These characteristics she has given her characters definitely reveals the Southern lifestyle which she was a part of.…
Once the Civil War had ended, many rejoiced and thought that African Americans would be free to live out normal lives, but then came the increase of lynching. After the war, the Southern economy was in ruins, and lynching had allowed white southerners to express their hatred and discontent towards the situation and African Americans were the vulnerable targets for their pent-up anger (Notes). In Southern Horrors, Feimster introduces Rebecca Felton, who was a wealthy slave owner, and Ida B. Wells, a slave born women, and how each woman viewed this idea of lynching drastically diverse from each other due to their upbringings.…
It wasn't hard for me to sympathize with Harriet Jacobs while reading her autobiography because of the stories my grandmother told me about her mother during this time period. My great grandmother was a slave in Georgia during antebellum period and had very similar stories. Her slave owner was Edward Archelaus Flewellen he was a medical director for the confederate army. Having connections to someone that went through the same thing as Harriet Jacobs just made her stories hit me more in the heart. I had already knew women were taking advantage of and was destroyed morally and emotionally during this time. I just know now that it was more women with my great grandmother that also went through this disgusting and horrible period of…
Disappointingly, I got my family caught up in this. That day it has been clearly set into me the fact that this town is highly racist, and it's worst than I thought. I never knew that the hatred for "negros" in this town was so strong. I feel like scout and Jem because honestly, not even I know the full truth as to why, but maybe it will change.…
Since he originally had intentions on bettering himself it was disappointing to see his morals pushed aside. However, I was able to relate to him since his pain and anger was so understandable. Another character I found interesting was Dr. Miller. He had become educated and wealthy and even respected by some, however he is still treated unequally and still longs to be considered an equal among both whites and blacks. Even though Josh and Dr. Miller were both inspiring and heroic to me, the mulatto character of Janet was the most moral and determined throughout the book. She endures the shame of being outcast from the family heritage that she was entitled to, is repeatedly rejected by her white stepsister, and eventually loses her only child as a result of the savage acts of the whites. Regardless of this, she overlooks it all and acts purely on a moral level of what is the right the thing to do for humanity. She disregards the issues…
Researching sound design for On the Verge began with researching the play itself. I found that On the Verge is based loosely off of real women in the Victorian age that explored extremely remote locations. (Joyners) This was in part to show that they could, in fact, go off on their own and experience dangerous things as women during a time when women did not have as many rights as men did. Although the time traveling that happens in the play is fantasy, the act of three ladies going out and exploring is based off actual women doing just that. Women in this era were expected to marry and take care of their children, while the husband went of to work. The trio of Fanny, Marry, and Alex rather contradict this, with only Fanny being married. (Wainscott) This ratio flips the norm within the group, and that, combined with the fact the women are exploring, brings to light a new perspective on how unique our characters are, and the situation they came from. In terms of sound, I would like to attempt to capture that spirit of these adventurous women. In researching On the…
After Emmett took the train to Mississippi with his fathers ring his mother gave him before he left he stayed at a house with many other boys of his age from his family and was watched over by their uncle. They would all pick cotton for the first half of the day and then go swimming the second half. On a Wednesday after working in the cotton fields Emmett and the other boys went to a convenient store close by called Bryant's, owned by whites. The boys got their refreshments and exited the store. The owner, Roy Bryant's wife was standing outside of the store as they left and Emmett decided to turn around and whistle at the white woman. The other boys told him it was a very bad idea to do that. They were all scared for what might happen. Days went by of the normal routine and nothing happened so they stopped their worrying, but four days later after the incident on Sunday night as everyone was in bed there was a knock on the door. As their uncle, Mose, opened the door he saw two very big white men standing there with a pistol looking for Emmett. One of the men was Roy Bryant, the white woman's husband. They searched through the house for Emmett until they found him and violently took him out of his bed. Mose was begging for them to just give him a whipping because he was from the north and was only a little boy who didn't know any better. They led Emmett out of…
Grace, an important theme to O'Connor, is given to both The Grandmother and The Misfit, neither of whom is particularly deserving. As she realizes what is happening, The Grandmother begins to beg The Misfit to pray so that Jesus will help him. Right before The Misfit kills her, The Grandmother calls him one of her own children, recognizing him as a fellow human capable of being saved by God's Grace. Even though he murders her, the Misfit is implied to have achieved some level of Grace as well when he ends the story by saying, "It's no real pleasure in life." Earlier in the story, he claimed the only pleasure in life was meanness. The glorification of the past is prevalent in this story through the character of The Grandmother, who expresses nostalgia for the way things used to be in the South. Her mistake about the "old plantation that she had visited in this…
I believe the author is trying to show that Amanda was not unique in that her father was a white male plantation owner and her mother was a black and enslaved to her father and that encounters of white males and black slave women were not uncommon and happened quite frequently depending on the plantation. The author could have used many different types of sources including oral history, newspapers, diaries and court documents to build her evidence and show that Amanda’s situation was not unique. She does challenge a few historians such as: Bertram Wyatt-Brown and Steven Stowe. The strengths of this book I feel are the points it brings up that relationships between slaves and whites all depended on the owner of the slaves and it was different from plantation to plantation but with that they all each had stuff in common. Like white males sleeping with black female slaves. Some weaknesses I feel in this book is that sometimes the author is hard to follow and she has messages that only her mind can…
How did slavery affect African-American families in the movie and what do you think is its long- term outcome?…
To me, this story did not only reflect the opinions of our government system, but of the peoples’ consciousness of getting past Jim Crowe segregation laws. The film also gave insight to what other people, at that time, thought about pertaining the laws of being against the “mixing of the races”. The reasons that came out had to do with God not wanting the races to mix and that is why he put them in different continents. A woman stated this in the interview footage and it reflected the line of thinking of many people that were against people like the Lovings.…
The first part of the movie was what really hit me as disturbing, and really made me try to put myself in Cecil’s shoes. His mother was raped and his father was shot for opening his mouth to the owner. I mean, I have seen different movies that show some traumatic event such as this as to how hard black people had it back then, but after all of the readings I have read in class, I just really felt emotional and bothered after this movie. At this point, Cecil’s life did improve, as little as it may seem, but working as a butler would be far better than working in the cotton fields.…