1. The memoir opens with a provocative refrain: What you looking at me for? I didn’t come to stay…” What do you think this passage says about Ritie’s sense of herself? How does she feel about her place in the world? How does she keep her identity intact? In the novel‚ “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou it basically explains her life growing up. The main character was Maya herself whom wrote the book and she talks about the struggle and pain she had to go through as a child. She explains
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others? A person’s culture always influences the way they see the world and others. The Literary texts “My mother pieced quilts” by Teresa Paloma Acosto‚ the short story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker and the letter “An Indian Fathers Plea” by Robert Lee. Each of these Literary Works show how a person’s culture is always effects the way a person looks at the world or other people. The poem “My Mother Pieced Quilts” by Teresa Paloma Acosto was a literary work that showed that peoples culture always
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replaced with grumbles about cheating houses‚ weighted scales‚ snakes‚ skimpy cotton and dusty rows. In later years I was to confront the stereotyped picture of gay song-singing cotton pickers with such an inordinate rage that I was told even by fellow blacks that my paranoia was embarrassing. But I had seen the fingers cut by the mean little cotton boils‚ and I had witnessed the backs and shoulders and arm and legs resisting any further demands." The importance of this quote
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Angeles to San Francisco. As expressed in the poem she tries to recite on Easter‚ the statement “I didn’t come to stay” becomes her shield against the cold reality of her rootlessness. Besieged by the “tripartite crossfire” of racism‚ sexism‚ and power‚ young Maya is belittled and degraded at every turn‚ making her unable to put down her shield and feel comfortable staying in one place. When she is thirteen and moves to San Francisco with her mother‚ Bailey‚ and Daddy Clidell‚ she feels that she
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John Carteret AP English 12 Period 3 October 20‚ 2013 "If" Explication What makes a man? In a world controlled by power and greed‚ virtue and honesty are lost in the midst. Rudyard Kipling’s “If” challenges one to be all the things that make a man. “If” employs the literary techniques of repetition‚ diction‚ rhyme and rhythm to appeal to the common man and reinforce the theme of human trial‚ and the challenge faced by all to be virtuous. The theme is further expressed in the subtle tones of
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"Poem to My Uterus" The speaker in this poem is coming to terms with the loss of her uterus and all that is had represented to her as a female and mother. It reads like a sad goodbye letter to a close‚ difficult friend. The tone in this poem is‚ mournful. This tone has given way to a self-mocking‚ yet more accepting view. Even in her major crisis‚ the fertile mind will see the mortal body through. In "Poem to My Uterus"‚ I think the theme is‚ old age. In the majority of Clifton’s poems
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night in August. I could not sleep; I feared that the upcoming baby would steal my mom’s love from me. It is normal for children to desire their parents’ love and attention‚ especially for a kid like me who grew up with a single mom. At the age of four‚ my mom was my whole world. I thought she felt the same way until she announced that she would have a baby. I would not have accepted the fact that my mom could divide her love between me and my sister. However‚ when I observed my mom holding a tiny
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that they are ‘heirs of their country’ * Effect: makes the country seem like a powerful and father-like nation which appeals to them | * | Alliteration | Assonance | Anaphora | Antistrophe | | * “And so‚ my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.” * The repetition in the same vowel sound in nearby words gets the idea stuck into their heads * Effect: encourages the audience to make a difference and join in in doing something
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this celebration of culture‚ artists of this time expressed discontent felt by African Americans with segregation through poetry. I‚ Too‚ Sing America and Still I Rise are two works during the Harlem Renaissance. They both are written by with the author as the speaker and they both address whites telling them that they should be debased to suppress blacks. In I‚ Too‚ Sing America by Langston Hughes‚ he is a servant of a white man and he is ‘unfit’ for the Dinner table and told to eat in the kitchen
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Journal #3 (Chapter 21-27) |Quote # 13: "At eleven years old‚ death is more unreal than |My Opinion: An eleven year old is less focused on death because | |frightening (Angelou 160)." |it is more unreal then frightening. Death is one of the last | | |things on a child’s mind because they are more worried about | | |today
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