“Stupid blue door why can’t you just be like all the others”. These thoughts often flooded Lena’s mind when she came home. Lena’s father painted the door of their house blue while all the others on the reservation were white. Jeannette C. Armstrong the author of Blue Against White clearly shows that Lena is troubled with the life pressure of being different. Immaturity wants assimilation maturity supports individualism. Lena leaves the reservation for schooling in the city. She finds that she
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In this short story‚ this child is no typical child you’ve seen. Every parent would crave of having a child like this. As well‚ everyone would dream to become someone like her. Sibia‚ the young‚ little‚ girl in the short story‚ “The Blue Bead” by Norah Burke is a commendable character. Sibia demonstrates her commendability by being affectionate‚ selfless‚ and courageous. Firstly‚ Sibia presents her commendability by being affectionate. For instance‚ Sibia sacrifices her life to rescue a Gujar
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creation through its own lens. Any such interpretation the audience makes is not necessarily that intended by the artist‚ and will certainly vary based on the individual experiences of the particular member of the audience. In his short story‚ Sonny’s Blues‚ James Baldwin illustrates this many-faceted relationship between art and life‚ and the differences between the artist’s intent and way it is actually perceived. One such example of the relationship between art and life and the differences in its
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how this drink serves as a symbolic conclusion to Baldwin’s story. How does it symbolize for the reader the resolution‚ or synthesis‚ of various tensions in the story? Indeed what are the main lines of tension‚ opposition‚ and division in “Sonny’s Blues”? * At the end of the story‚ the narrator describes a glass sitting over Sonny’s piano as shaking “like the very cup of trembling” to highlight what a difficult and complicated position Sonny is in. This image is borrowed from the Bible‚ where
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Jane-Clare Dauito Professor Thorstensen English Composition 2 11 December 2013 Within The Blues James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” is a story of how a distant and conflicting relationship between two brothers is saved by the powerful message within music. In “Sonny’s Blues” the music portrays a very powerful message. The story begins with Sonny being arrested for heroin use. Sonny’s older brother is a school teacher and did not want to believe that the news was true‚ “I didn’t want to believe that
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St. Louis Blues Bessie Smith and St. Louis Blues are two legends in the blues world‚ separately as well as together. When placed together one could not find a better example of classical blues from the 1920’s. St. Louis Blues is one of the most popular blues songs ever written. William Christopher Hardy wrote this song over 80 years ago. While on a trip to St. Louis‚ Hardy met a tormented black woman. She spoke to him in her deep southern broken English about the loss of her husband to another
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The Blue Sky Gallery‚ in Portland‚ currently displays a photo series depicting the daily struggles individuals from Central America face as they make the perilous journey to the United States. In this series‚ Michelle Frankfurter‚ highlights the atrocities presently facing migrants as they attempt to reach and cross the border. Michelle Frankfurter is a documentary photographer who has spent recent years capturing the difficulties immigrants face traveling to the American and Mexico border. Her work
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Setting Analysis Sonny’s Blues Sonny’s Blues takes place in Harlem‚ New York. The story unfolds during the 1950’s which was a time frame that swept the African American community into a downward spiral. This period followed the Harlem Renaissance and although that historical event ended after the 1920’s‚ the effects on the black community were still very prevalent factor. Musicians‚ poets‚ writers and other creatives still managed to flourish. On the contrary‚ poverty stricken neighborhoods
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English 1100 The Working Class In the essay “Blue-Collar Brilliance” written by Mike Rose‚ he begins to talk about how Blue-Collar workers are smarter than what society put them out to be. Rose talks about his mother and how she has to member a lot of martial during the work period. Rose also talks about his uncle that started as a regular worker and worked his way up to supervising the paint-and-body line. This is where Rose came to see that Blue-Collar workers are smart they aren’t just given
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Emmanuel Gamboa Mrs. Lynch Short Fiction Period IV September 17‚ 2012 “The Blue Bouquet” and its Critics Short-short stories have been critiqued by countless writers and every single critic has a different mentality about what needs to be in a short-short story to make it a memorable one. There have been countless authors that try to create a short-short story but at the end of the day for one reason or another‚ their story was not considered a short-short. Through the critiques of Alice K
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