A Blacks Woman Struggle
Running Head: A BLACK WOMAN’S STRUGGLE 1
A Black Woman’s Struggle Shamika Jeffery ENG 125 Stacie Hankinson June 2, 2014
A BLACK WOMAN’S STRUGGLE 2 A Black Woman’s Struggle
Writing is a beautiful way of expressing how a person feels and thinks about everyday life. It is a way to express with emotion and feeling the trails, tribulations, likes, dislikes, and worries of oneself and the problems seen in the world and be able to be heard. Even a subject such as racism can be expressed in poetry and even in its ugliest form can be turned into a beautiful piece of art. Two literary pieces that I have encountered that left an emotional mark on me were “The Welcome Table” by Alice Walker and “What it is like to be a black girl” by Patricia Smith. In these two literary pieces the depiction of how racism plays a huge role in black women lives are displayed to the world to rise an understanding and awareness of the struggle that women of color have faced throughout the years and emotionally still struggle with today. In these literary pieces both authors express feelings on the subject of racism in a graceful and expressionate manner. Although the characters, settings, form, literary style, and symbols used in each piece of writing is different the message received from both are very much the same… Racism plays a crucial role in a black woman’s life still after segregation.
The main character play an important role to any literary piece and allows great
A Black Woman’s Struggle Shamika Jeffery ENG 125 Stacie Hankinson June 2, 2014
A BLACK WOMAN’S STRUGGLE 2 A Black Woman’s Struggle
Writing is a beautiful way of expressing how a person feels and thinks about everyday life. It is a way to express with emotion and feeling the trails, tribulations, likes, dislikes, and worries of oneself and the problems seen in the world and be able to be heard. Even a subject such as racism can be expressed in poetry and even in its ugliest form can be turned into a beautiful piece of art. Two literary pieces that I have encountered that left an emotional mark on me were “The Welcome Table” by Alice Walker and “What it is like to be a black girl” by Patricia Smith. In these two literary pieces the depiction of how racism plays a huge role in black women lives are displayed to the world to rise an understanding and awareness of the struggle that women of color have faced throughout the years and emotionally still struggle with today. In these literary pieces both authors express feelings on the subject of racism in a graceful and expressionate manner. Although the characters, settings, form, literary style, and symbols used in each piece of writing is different the message received from both are very much the same… Racism plays a crucial role in a black woman’s life still after segregation.
The main character play an important role to any literary piece and allows great
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