What Is The Tone Of Incident By Countee Cullen

In the first section of the story, Angelou uses figures of speech and extensive detail to show the importance of the event to her community. The first line, “The last inch of space was filled, yet people continued to wedge themselves along the walls of the Store” (par. 1), Angelou uses a hyperbole to give vivid imagery that emphasizes the number of people in the Store. The second line where “Uncle Willie had turned up the radio so that youngsters on the porch wouldn’t miss a word” (par.1), shows the devotion and involvement of the entire community. The simile used by Angelou to represent the mood shift, “… as a black sky is streaked with lightning” (par. 2), shows the sudden, unexpected, and fast change from tense to high-spirited talk. Angelou then goes to give examples the pre-game-chatter like “Joe’s gonna whip that cracker like it’s open season(par. 3-4). The diction used shows the culture of that community. The hyperboles and details give a great view of the settings in the story.

Instead of valuing the message one is sharing, society becomes hung up on the formality of the speaker. Hurston’s incorporation of this rough language highlights the hardships members of her community faced to move up in the ranks. They are judged immediately for their voice rather than the content of their ideas. Hurston plays off this stereotype in “Spunk” by recounting the whole story through the idiom of the rural South. Subconsciously, she is spreading awareness of the low economic and social status of her hometown and culture, and then busting the stereotype through the voice of the narrator. The voices of the townspeople mirror Hurston’s origins, and the voice of the narrator illustrates how far she had come in her education and success. Society should not stereotype minority groups because of their lack of resources that hold them back from what they are truly capable of. Unfortunately, critics such as Langston Hughes did not understand Hurston’s intentions. He “accused her of using the dialectic speech and the elements of folklore to degenerate her own people and to please whites, who expected unsophisticated language and behavior from African Americans,” (“Spunk” 296). Hurston along with the many other Harlem Renaissance characters were evidence themselves that the African American culture has unique elements that make it worth celebrating rather than a burden dragging the United States down.

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is a story that expresses how far your imagination can take you without even realizing it. The story's author, Ambrose Bierce, participated in several wars during the Civil War, which later influenced the writing that he did after the war. In this story he writes about how in the last moments of a man's life, he vividly imagines escaping his death. Only to reveal that it was all a dream as he is hanged off of Owl Creek Bridge. Ambrose Bierce uses several literary techniques in order to make his story represent realism.

In Ambrose Bierce’s historical fiction story, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” takes place in northern Alabama on or near the Owl Creek Bridge. Bierce makes his story have a unique storyline; one that carries a lot of suspense. Anyway, Bierce bases his story on Peyton Fahrquhar, a man who is a slave owner plus a politician who’s devoted to the Southern cause. He isn’t allowed to take part in the war due to the “circumstances of an imperious nature”, therefore when a man showed up and told him some people were at Owl Creek Bridge, he jumped at the idea of going to help (Bierce 3). It wasn’t a smart decision for him because it resulted with him getting prepped for execution. It was a hard time for Peyton, but he kept think of his loved ones

Countee Cullen is a poetic writer during the time of the Harlem Renaissance. Countee Cullen wrote many deep poems about racism in New England. However, the poem that is the most understandable to me is called Incident. This poem represent the severity of the racism in America, and how it was taking over Black people's lives.

What i feel like he mean by the poem is, the fact that h is from Winsto-Salem and go’s to a all white school called Harlem. Them things doesn't make him no different then the next person, or the fact that he is the only black man in his class. He want the teacher to see him for him no matter the color, age, or his personality. And so he say “ does it make his paper any different from yours

The American Civil War was the deadliest battle fought on American soil. An estimated 620,000 American soldiers died during this bloody conflict. Writers during this time were influenced by the gruesome times. One of these authors, Ambrose Bierce, was a naturalist who focused his writings on his life and his experiences with war. Most of his works and views were shaped by his career as a Union officer in the Civil War. Bierce was raised in poverty created an unsentimental outlook in his writing. The brutality he witnessed during the war cemented his cynicism. His writings explored themes of cruelty and death, earning himself the nickname “Bitter Bierce”. In one of his main works, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”, Ambrose tells of a planter who is hanged for trying to destroy a bridge controlled by the Union Army. Throughout the story, glimpses of his military and war experiences appear. Bierce provides in-depth details about military weapons, rankings, and codes.

“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce makes you think between the differences of reality and dreaming. The way the two intertwine throughout the story makes for an excellent read and you must be able to identify what is real or just a dream. Since there are realistic and imagined events I am going to give a timeline of both and how they have become intertwined. Peyton Farquhar was a wealthy planter and slave owner, he supported the Confederacy but was not part of the army. His wife and he were sitting on the porch and a Confederate soldier comes up and tells Farquhar that the Union troops have repaired the railroad and that any civilian caught tampering with the railroad would be hanged.

The American Civil War was seen as a “necessary evil” in order to terminate the institution of slavery since divisions over it between the American North and South could not be quelled by peaceful exchange of ideas. Ambrose Bierce challenges this opinion with his short story, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” about a Confederate soldier, Peyton Farquhar, who waits for his execution atop a railroad bridge and his final thoughts. With his nonsensical arrangement and obvious symbolism, Bierce strives to convey that war does not adhere to logic, and ironically, when one desperately tries to cling to reality, it becomes further distorted.

“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” By Ambrose Bierce, is a descriptive short story with a unique plot twist. Payton Farquhar, a 35-year-old, wealthy planter and slave owner in Alabama, who prides his loyalty to the south. Farquhar had been lured by a Union scout to sabotage a bridge in Union territory. Farquhar, unsuccessful in the attempt to blow up the bridge was captured and hung from the Owl Creek Bride by Union soldiers. Bierce uses time as a way of manipulating the reader's perspective to the point where the reader can no longer distinguish actual reality from a perceived reality.

Alain Locke describes his hopes and aspirations for the Black race in his 1925 essay The New Negro. He argues that the birth of the new Negro is dependent on the transformation of old characterizations and attitudes into less restrictive and more supportive notions. Locke states that “by shedding the old chrysalis of the Negro problem [Blacks] are achieving something like a spiritual emancipation” (Locke, p. 985). This emancipation is a liberation from the prejudices of the White man and the psychological segregation interpreted from social discrimination. This internal metamorphosis is a reoccurring theme in some of the poetry from the Harlem Renaissance; Countee Cullen’s poems Incident and Tableau frame the spectrum of Locke’s description

The genres of this work appear to be African American literature, satire, and in a sense it is a coming-of-age kind of story. As such, the story follows the narrator’s life during the great migration/Harlem Renaissance era and has many different locations. It starts off in the

The poetic elements reveal the melancholy tone that the speaker is using to tell the poem. The poem relates to history, because African Americans were treated unfairly, and were hanged for a lot of things. For example, the story that the poem was based on, was about three African American teens who were accused of murdering a white young man. Even without evidence, they angry mob of Americans took the boys out of jail, beat them, and then hanged them, but they only managed to lynch two of them. “..."Just then the sheriff, and he was sweating like somebody had throwed a bucket of water in his face. He told the mob leader: 'Get the hell out of here, you already hung two of 'em so that ought to satisfy ya.'...” (Strange Fruit: Anniversary Of A Lynching). The Sheriff managed to convince the mob to leave the boy alone and go

To be exiled means to be kept from one's native space or country. In the book, Invisible Man, The nameless narrator started off bound for greatness and then as the novel continued he to be challenged with obstacles as he discovered his true self. Through these obstacles he was pushed farther and farther away from the places he learned to call home and had to forget everything he knew to survive. As a young black men the narrator stayed very true to who he was and wished to be a very successful scholar. He got a scholarship for an African American college and was lucky enough to be able to go; however, halfway through his schooling due to power hungry and egotistical Dr. Bledsoe, the narrator was expelled because he showed one of the school founders around dirtier parts of town. This college was a place the narrator considered home and was exiled from it leaving him with only 50 dollars and envelopes filled with false hope.

Countee Cullen was a leading writer of the Harlem Renaissance. Adopted as a teenager, he was never able to know his real, true family, along with its heritage, so he was not able to find his true identity. He felt these devastating effects of a loss of identity after losing his family, while being thrust into a new one, and never found or understood his own heritage. This later impacted major aspects of his life, such as his style of writing, his religion, and his sexuality.