God Grew Tired Of Us By John Bul Dau

For the sinners who fail to cleanse their loathsome, tainted souls, angering the omnipotent God whose hostility is presented in an infinite wrath, only a painful, torturing hell is held in their destinies. This terrifying, ominous threat, presented in “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards, amplifies the power of God, and renders a profound hatred toward impure sinners. Accordingly, through his usage of the powerful rhetoric exposed by allusion, imagery, and metaphor, Edwards produces a dangerous scene which effectively contributes to his formidable assertion regarding God’s animosity toward those who sin, and his capacity to inflict vengeance upon those who are suspects.

Susan B. Anthony once said there is not a women born who desires to eat the bread of dependence. In the novel Their eyes were watching god by Zora Neal Hurston, Janie Crawford depicts the life of a young African women who struggles with male dominance. As well for Mrs. Mallard in The story of an hour by Kate Chopin. Both of these women become independent, share experiences with male dominance and share an appealing perspective toward nature. They also have distinctive outcomes in their lives. Janie and Mrs. Mallard share similarities in their lives and distinctions as well.

In Zora Neale Hurston’s esteemed novel Their Eyes Were Watching God Nanny Crawford says, “De nigger woman is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see.” When I read this bold statement in my 11th grade literature class it struck me. I carried these words with me for a long time contemplating their meaning. Does this comparison of black women to a lowly animal such as a mule hold true? It certainly did in the early twentieth century time period of the novel in which black women were nothing more than the property of white men. However, despite all the milestones and barriers African American women have broken since then, to an extent Nanny’s words hold true even in today’s society. Women of color still remain objects of exploitation and misrepresentation. As an African American woman, I would use my time enrolled in Grady College to prepare and mold myself into a positive representation of black women in mainstream media.

Divided we fall book is about a private first class name Daniel Wright trying to serve his country and do his duty to protect and served his home as an Idaho Guardsmen. The author, Trent Reedy served in the Iowa national guard for 7 years and a tour in Afghanistan. I believed the book was well written by the author by giving us dramatic moments and good postures. The plot of the story was great by giving us details and action to give us an answer. Trent did an excellent telling us a story of a young soldier who’s trying to do good for his country. The story is mostly about a 17-yr. old private in the Idaho Guardsmen who’s going to High school somewhere right by a lake. Daniel was not just a guardsman, he plays for his school football team for

Imagine not having an education. Where do you think you would be right now? On the streets of New York?. Or will you be ok with not having an education. Could you be successful? John Dau a lost boy of Sudan is thrilled that he gets to go to school and have an education. The central theme of God Grew Tired Of Us written by John Dau, is the authors drive to learn everything he can and get a good education.

The novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston is about a woman’s journey of self-discovery. The main character, Janie, believes she will achieve fulfillment if she can find her idea of a perfect love. Only Janie’s final marriage provides her with the love she craves, her first two marriages are unfulfilling and oppressive. Hurston uses the mule symbolically to represent women and their oppression. The oppression of women is evident in Janie’s treatment from her husbands as well as the treatment of Matt Bonner’s mule.

Claude McKay’s 1919 sonnet, “If We Must Die”, came at a time when African-American lives were conditional, and seemingly dependent on the actions of the white community. McKay’s choice to write his poem in the form of a Shakespearean sonnet, a form usually reserved for flowery love language, could be attributed to either establishing his worth as a writer to a community not so accepting of black writers and/or to use an easily understood format to convey the strong message of injustice within American society at the time. The times surrounding this poem was an era of hostility and racial tension, where the lives of black men were less valued than their white counterparts. McKay’s “If We Must Die” is reminiscent of a speech which rallies a group of soldiers going into battle. However, rather than soldiers, the audience is the African-American community dealing with their day-to-day lives.

The title, Their Eyes Were Watching God, symbolizes the omnipotence of the God, who controls the fate of Janie, highlighting the irrelevance of people’s free will, especially African Americans. It’s indicated that the life of Janie from companionship with Joe to that with Tea Cake is all determined by the God. However, “watching God,” an attitude of Janie, contrasts with the main conformity of African American perspective.

Janie and Celie are both victims of a social hierarchy based on race and gender in which they are defined by the whites and even some black folks of their communities. Since before slavery, white people have issued zero respect for the black communities across the world. When the abolishment of slavery was adapted into the U.S constitution, rage was amplified across the nation in the hearts of the white folk. They were now expected to coexist with African Americans and yet the notion of inequality was still very present. In Their Eyes Were Watching God Janie certainly experiences being oppressed by white and black people especially because both races are part of her heritage. She grows up under the assumption she is not good enough for either race. Her grandmother Nanny definitely contributes

John Bul Dau is trying to promote war in Sudan, John was a lost boy in the middle of the Civil War in Sudan, so he had to flee from his family and friends, to escape from being killed or tortured. He was around 15, one of the oldest children that ran away from Sudan. John then was one of the first children to get into America. John Bul Dau advocates to ending the civil war in Sudan through his works, “God Grew Tired Of Us,” “Lost Boy, Lost Girl, Escaping Civil War In Sudan,” “Partnering Together: A Church doing Mission In South Sudan.”

I feel that Hurston’s representation of people in Their Eyes Were Watching God showed her training as an Anthropologist. Her use of language and perspectives of the individuals and their interactions with one another and their society added and layer realism to the story. As I read, I perceived the communities as real and shows deep understanding of how people and communities evolve. The use of community to help tell the story is similar to Faulkner, As I lay Dying. Both represented the rural south as a close community where people know each other and their businesses and are bound by customs and duty, but these communities are often just as petty and bitter as it is friendly and helpful. The view of the Janie by her neighbors in similar

It was a good camp they gave food and clothes to people also lets them play sports such as basketball my dad said his father's uncle was apart of this he was in a camp and he played soccer. People dance a lot to. The camp also did fun activities there in the camp their traditions and their culture.

God is a giving God. Although God didn't have to create this world, the creatures, the plants, and the people, God freely gave and created; and continues to do so. According to Kelly Kapic and Justin Borger’s book, “God So Loved, He Gave”, “We constantly clamor for our “rights” and cling to the impression that we own our bodies, our money, our ideas, our time, our property, and everything else we can manage to slap our name tag on. But more than anything else, we feel sure that we own ourselves.” (Kapic and Borger 20). Borger and Kapic also identify that “we are owned by our possessions” and those around one’s self, “competing powers” to God, and “degrading masters rather

The way we perceive the world seems like the normal way that everyone should see it. However the sudanese lost boys had a different perspective on life. They didn’t have to wake up at certain times to get too jobs. Their values compared to the Americans are very different. Finally the society the lost boys were apart of was very distinctive compared to the Americans.

Culture is shared beliefs, values, attitudes, and behaviors that is passed on from generation to another. After watching the movie God Grew Tired of Us, the movie helped me better understand America’s culture. America’s culture is based on individualism. People are on their own and provide for themselves. Other people from different countries do not see American people as friendly.