Ernest Gaines: Accomplished African-American Author Every person has challenges and different

A sentence from someone may mean one thing, but an action can have a million different meanings behind it so which one would you judge a person from? Many people experience fear and are scared to face them, so instead of standing up against it they just decide to be a new person. Their minds are manipulated to not face their anxiety and are frightened about what will happen to them. People think that being fearful of something and to overcome it is a difficult task. People often mistaken their strength to fight their fear and decide to give up. Both stories, “Quicksand” and “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man” share the common theme of how they use fear as an excuse to escape to a new world, they become a different person and get rid of

Pulitzer Prize winner Douglas A. Blackmon started off small in Leland Mississippi, publishing his first story to his local newspaper at age 12. Later on in life he attended college at Hendrix University where he got his degrees in English. Throughout life his career has been mainly focused on the history of race and human rights. Blackmon has worked in a variety of places though out his career such as the Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Wall Street Journal, and in 2011 he joined the Washington Post.

The narrator of The Autobiography grows up his whole life thinking that he is white. It is not until one fateful day in school where a teacher indirectly tells him that he is black that he finds out. This revelation, which he himself describes as “a sword-thrust” (Johnson 13), suggests a transformation, a great change, a development in the Ex-Colored Man’s racial consciousness in the future. However, as M. Giulia Fabi says, “[The ECM’s] proclaimed loyalty to his ‘mother’s people’ is continuously undercut by his admiration for and identification with mainstream white America” (375). She also indicates how when contrasted with previous passers, “the Ex-Colored Man’s oft-noted cowardice,

.Wes Moore is a famous African-American writer, entruponuer, social advocates, and community leader. However, Wes was not always like this, he grew up in Baltimore, fatherless, troubuled, and ruinous. Wes needed to be steered clear of the erroneous path his life he was living. The man shaped Wes into the respectable man he is

Richard Wright was born on September 4, 1908 on a Mississippi plantation. Richard was an author wrote controversial novels, poems, non-fiction and stories. Wright was the most influential African-American in the twentieth century. He was a grandson of slaves, so most of Wright’s work was involved in racial subjects. Which concerned African-Americans during the nineteen and mid-twenties century. Richard’s life was rough, his father abandoned his family when Richard was only five years old, he didn’t rarely had food in his home, he started late school because he didn’t have clothe to wear, he never graduated high school, and was beaten severely. Richard wrote books like “Uncle Tom’s Children”, “Native Son”, and “Black Boy”. The writing of Richard

Ernest J Gaines was born January 15, 1933, on River Lake Plantation in Pointe Coupee parish, LA, with six of his twelve siblings, the other of which were born in California. A fifth generation born on the plantation, Gaines was raised by his loving Aunt, after his parents moved to California for work. Although his Aunt couldn’t walk, she took care of Gaines and his six siblings at the time, until Ernest was 15 and moved to California. The common setting and location that is repeated throughout Gaines’s work is reflected through his move to California as a young boy, “The body had gone to California to be

The main idea of my story, “An autobiography of an ex-colored man”, is about a young man who is mixed between African american and White. He doesn't know that he is mixed until his principle ask all the white children to stand in the middle of class and when he proceeded to stand the principal told him to sit because he was Black. After this dreadful day of discovering that he was part African American, the young boy started to view the world a lot different as he aged. The author uses pathos and ethos to really get the main idea across. The author uses pathos by expressing the feelings of the boy as he was discovering how the world treated African Americans.

There were many influential African American writers in the 1900s. Amongst them being some whose legacies we still see about today such as Maya Angelou, W.E.B. Dubois, Alex Haley, and Richard Wright. Richard Wright was born in 1908 in Roxie, Mississippi. He has been highly regarded as a writer and to this day is one of the most important African American writers in history. Richard Wright stands out from the other writers because during his lifetime as a writer/journalist, he wrote over 4,000 haikus according to terebess.hu. Most Black writers focused on things that had to do with race as did Wright, however, the majority of what he wrote we’re haikus.

Baldwin developed a passion for reading at an early age, and demonstrated a gift for writing during his school years. He attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, where he worked on the school's magazine

Every good author has certain characteristics about their writing that makes them unique and special. Ernest Gaines, the writer of A Lesson before Dying, is no exception. His writing is the prime example of an author using certain techniques to make his writing stand out above all others. Ernest Gaines has been noticed for the absence of melodrama, the avoidance of the propagandistic, and the broad and generous humanity brought on by the words of his works.

Ernest also wrote for the school newspaper, which was his initiation into the world of writing. He also began writing short stories during high school. He spent the summers during high school at Walloon Lake in Michigan. This would be the setting of many of his short stories later in his life (Perkins 438).

Ernest Hemmingway was one of the most influential authors of the early twentieth century. He wrote many of his infamous novels and stories from the 1920s to the 1950s. Hemmingway was known for his way to write simple and terse, yet he was able to hold an unseen power behind his words. He lived a life filled with adventures and exploration, but died feeling alone. His experiences in life very much influenced his writing, and in many ways, his own personal stories can be seen in his works.

John Knowles was an American author who was born in September 16, 1926 in Fairmont, West Virginia. He attended St. Peter’s high school in Fairmont, Virginia from 1938 to 1940 before finishing at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire in 1945. Following his time at Phillips Exeter Academy, he served in the U.S. Army for two years during the WWII.He graduated in Yale University in 1949. While he was at Yale, he contributed stories to campus humor magazine The Yale Record , served on the board of the Yale Daily News and was the editorial secretary his senior year. Early on his career, he wrote for the Hartford Courant and was an assistant editor for holiday magazine. With an encouragement by Thornton Wilder, an American playwright and novelist,

Authors like to use many of their life experiences when they write. Some authors may use a familiar place as a setting. Often writers will base a character on a familiar person in their life. Life events can form the basis of plots. Toni Morrison uses these techniques.

John Knowles, born on September 16, 1926, was born in the town Fairmont, West Virginia. At age 15, Knowles left home to study at Phillips Exeter Academy which was a famed boarding school in New Hampshire. In 1945, John Knowles graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy. Precedingly, Knowles served in the US Army Air Force Cadet Program for eight months. Then he attended Yale University and graduated with a B.A. in 1949. Between 1950 and 1956, Knowles was a journalist and a freelance writer. During that period, he traveled to Europe and began to publish short stories. Thornton Wilder, a playwright, took an early interest in Knowles’s fiction writing and encourage him to write about experiences from his past. In