Beauty can be defined in many ways. Ethnicity shouldn’t be an obstacle that keeps someone out of the range of beauty. For example‚ the narrative of “Senior Picture Day” by Michele Serros‚ she had been mocked about her Indian nose and in “Brownies” by ZZ Packer‚ the narrative compared their hairs with the white girls from Troop 909‚ which as commercial hair. People develop negative body image as a result of European beauty standards and the effect that having only one beauty standard has on non- white
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of Outsiders ZZ Packer’s Drinking Coffee Elsewhere a book that consists of many short stories that are very similar in plot‚ however very different in the overall meaning of the story. Throughout her compilations of short stories Packer grasps the idea of being labeled an “outside” in our society. In these three stories “Brownies‚ Drinking Coffee Elsewhere‚ and Geese” all of the main characters of the story receive discrimination from their other peers. In one story “Brownies” the main character
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scout certainly had interesting stories to remember for a very long time. However‚ none of my brownie camping stories can compare to ZZ Packer’s short story “Brownies”. The story is about an African American Brownie troop of six girls who went away to camp to find another Brownie troop was sharing the campgrounds with them. From the beginning of the trip‚one of the brownies‚ Arnetta‚ discriminated on the other troop‚ who was white. The story is based around Arnetta claiming she heard a girl from the other
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Rebekah Frost LAL 153: Online Summer 2015 Unit 7: Literary Analysis Essay Literary Analysis Essay Final Draft Due: 6-20-15 “Brownies" by ZZ Packer‚ Literary Analysis Essay Racism Among Our Youth Brownies is a short story about 4th graders who go on a summer camping trip near the southern suburbs of Atlanta in Georgia. Laura‚ an African American girl‚ also known by her nickname ‘Snot’ to the other girls‚ narrates the story. The Narrator explains how her Brownie troop took a dislike on each and
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Discrimination and segregation are both very big topics that are pushed to the side in today’s modern society. Discrimination is the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things‚ especially on the grounds of race‚ age‚ or sex. It was very noticeable that the whites left most blacks to defend themselves. Most say that they were being treated like dirt. Segregation is the act or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart
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Racism in Drinking Coffee Elsewhere In ZZ Packer’s book entitled Drinking Coffee Elsewhere‚ we get to see how African Americans cope with their different situations dealing with family‚ friendship‚ religion‚ and the pursuit of prosperity in the world. Within the short story collection there is a story named after the title‚ Drinking Coffee Elsewhere‚ where we get to see the pressures put on a young African American woman‚ Dina‚ that causes her to resort to near complete isolation of herself. Dina
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Imaginative Conversation Why does ZZ Packer write her essay with mostly conversing through language? In the short story Drinking Coffee Elsewhere‚ ZZ Packer consistently uses the art of conversation. She uses this type of language throughout her short story while either a group of people are talking or just man to man conversations. First off this short story is about an African American woman named Dina and she just arrived at orientation at the University Yale. In class she quickly meets
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Z.Z. Packer adds to this list of more commonly used similarities between birds and humans by endowing the birds in her short story‚ “The Ant of the Self”‚ with the gift of speech. By doing so‚ Z.Z. Packer highlights her use of a squawking assortment of colorful African birds as a symbol for Spurgeon. The birds serve as a catalyst for the story‚ giving rise to Spurgeon’s and his father’s trip to the Million Man March. As the duo makes their way from Jasper‚ Indiana to Washington‚ D.C.‚ Packer introduces
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Reading the story Doris Is Coming made me believe in the story. The realism of it made me realize that even though I don’t believe everything they were stating. I was convinced that the last day on this earth was here‚ that day in that church. The conversations they were having with one another made more since to me. The other story was a bit harder for me to fully understand the scenario of that story. Doris is left to make sense of this world. This story made a very good point from the past history
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Sundays try to walk like a lady and not the slut you are so bent on becoming.” I almost felt the narrator’s pain for what she’s going through with her mother. I most definitely can relate to this story the girl is telling. “Buffalo Soldiers” by ZZ Packer was my least favorite short story. It was too
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