I believe that Gloria Naylor’s article‚ “The Meanings of a Word” opens up the topic of personal experiences and how families will create their own meanings of words. The article stresses that as an adult‚ responsibility is to show children how to be kind and respectful through words and actions. If this responsibility is not fulfilled however‚ a child can become ill-mannered and begin to hurt others. For example‚ whatever way an adult says a word is how the child will interpret and use it and in
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October 2012 Gloria Naylor There are many fascinating authors that are very famous. But there’s one in particular that is very exciting. Her name is Gloria Naylor. Her work is very detailed and has hidden messages within it and the only way to understand those messages is by analyzing it. I will be analyzing two novels that she wrote. Both of these novels were very big on book sales and I think may have been the wo that meant the most to Gloria Naylor. Gloria Naylor wrote a novel called
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myself uniquely connected to “Meanings of the Word”. This reading was very sensitive in nature‚ and filled with powerful content. The author Gloria Naylor‚ wrote “Meanings of a Word” using illustration and in a descriptive manner while telling her story with a gifted influential tone. In my early years‚ late 60’s and 70’s this deplorable term defined throughout this reading‚ was a racial slur used by a family member in my home. Having a profound opinion about this word‚ I vowed never to utter this
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social issues in society today. Along with discrimination there come many words used negatively in which others are targeted. In Gloria Naylor’s essay‚ The Meanings of a Word‚ she discusses the idea in which words are essentially meaningless and that it is the person who uses them that brings meaning to the words they use. As everyone knows‚ there are many people that use words with bad intentions and they use their words to defame and discriminate against others. Everyone is subject to this type
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In the beginning of the work Mama Day by Gloria Naylor the reader is introduced to the three prefatory documents. The reader is completely unaware that the bill‚ a map of the island of Willow Springs and the family tree completely connect and contribute to the main theme and the entirety of the text in itself. It isn’t uncommon in novels for a map of the setting of the text to be present in the beginning of the work‚ it is generally present to allow the reader to visualize and understand the character’s
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Gloria Naylor writes of a community that is endowed with southern traditions and values that makes it hard to believe that she was born in New York and attended colleges in the North‚ Brooklyn College and Yale University‚ without mention of any southern connection when she wrote the novel Mama Day in 1993. The fluency of her pen gives a voice in southern literature through her love of land for Willow Springs‚ violence and turmoil in history of descendants‚ and race relationships throughout the community
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written word inferior to the spoken‚ and much of the frustration experienced by novelists is the awareness that whatever we manage to capture in even the most transcendent passages falls far short of the richness of life. Dialogue achieves its power in the dynamics of a fleeting moment of sight‚ sound‚ smell and touch." -excerpt taken from Gloria Naylor’s ’The Meanings of a Word’. Words The first sentence of this excerpt can have several interpretations‚ depending on which synonym of the word ’language’
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The Meaning of a Word In the essay The Meaning of a Word‚ “Gloria Naylor” discusses the essence of a word and how it can mean different things to different people in a number of situations. Naylor talks about how depending on your race‚ gender‚ or social status using a word like ‘nigger’ can have different meanings. Naylor then uses personal experiences to help the reader visualize how someone views the meaning of the word used in different contexts. Naylor talks about how a written word is never
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In both Gloria Naylor’s Essay “The Meanings of a Word” and Christine Leong’s “Being a Chink‚” both authors‚ whom are women of color‚ address the power behind words and their definitions. While acknowledging that words can be both empowering and positive‚ both Naylor and Leong address that words can be used in negative ways and easily manipulated. Words have the power to express an individual’s feelings and thoughts to one another‚ whether positive or negative. Alongside this‚ words can be used as
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«The meaning of the word» Course Project in English Year IV Group 431 Ann Nyagu Research Supervisor: L.P. Gulidova Izmail‚ 2011 Contents Introduction………………………………………………………………3-4 1. CHAPTER 1. Theoretical part…………………………………………….5 2. The lexical meaning versus notion………………………………………7-11 3. Grammatical meaning…………………….……………………………11-13 .1.3.1. Meaning of singularity…………………………………………………13-14 .1.3.2. Meaning of plurarity……………………………………………………
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