Joe Turner's Come And Gone Essay

Joe Turner's Come and Gone is a play demonstrating the movement of African Americans to freedom in 1910. The play is set in a boarding house which is a transitional place for newly freed African American to harbor while they adjust their newly-found freedom. The Images of travel and the use of the phrase "the road" interposes on the different transitions each character has during the play; the play examines how African Americans' search for their cultural identity, following the repression of slavery. For many this involved the physical migration from the South to the North in an attempt to find a new start: " In an effort to flee the discriminations they faced in the south and hoping to find financial success, many blacks migrated

I could speak of Joan Didion's use of rhetorical devices. I could describe every subtle simile she imposes and preach of her incredible use of personification, but I think the most important piece of the essay would, then, be neglected. In "Goodbye to All That," Didion compares her experiences in New York to the occurrences at a fair. This metaphor is discussed in a very roundabout way. Ultimately, though, Didion (like anybody) grew tired and dissatisfied with the fair (in her case NYC).

Author and playwright August Wilson’s Century Cycle, a series of ten plays representing the lives of African-Americans during each decade of the twentieth century, has widely been acknowledged by critics as well as the general public for its accurate depiction of the journey and struggles of the African-American community in its search for an identity in a white world. During the entire cycle Wilson almost exclusively focuses on black characters and their personal and collective stories.

The book shows the story about a black guy called Nat Turner and all the moments that he lived before starting his revolution against whites. He was a Black slave that became a preacher to slaves from farms and plantations, speaking against the slavery but carefully pretending be an obedient slave to his owners. When Turner was twenty five years old, he began to dream about a revolution because he

King exposes the institutionalized racism in Birmingham by informing his audience on the immorality of the church. King exposes the cowardice that white churches promotes that

     The story takes place in Southampton County, Virginia where little Nat Turner is introduced. Nat led a normal childhood for the most part, supervised by his beloved grandmother. They were working as slaves on a plantation owned by Benjamin and Elizabeth Turner. The Turners became Methodists due to the emphasis on free will and salvation. The

One powerful example of King’s pull on the reader’s consciousness in his letter is on page three when he refutes the argument of the Clergymen saying that Colored people should just “wait”.  While many words truly stand out, King’s true effect was mastered by the appeal to the parents in the group, “When you have to concoct an answer for a five-year-old son who is asking: “Daddy, why white people treat colored people so mean” (“Letter from Birmingham Jail” 3)Then again, “humiliation day in and day out by nagging signs” (“Letter from Birmingham Jail 3) and even further, when “you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of “nobodiness” (“Letter from Birmingham Jail 3).  Another element that helps support King’s point in his letter is the fervent repetition of his blatant disappointment in more than simply the clergymen, but their Christian faith and the churches in service within Alabama during this time. King repeats how disappointed he was in the “common whites” also and their bystander reactions to racial issues. The fact that this man, a minister, “beneath” the said extremist white clergymen, and inhabiting a jail cell during that time, who was disappointed in people showed a true depth which hit the audience profoundly. (King)

In A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah, a former boy soldier with the Sierra Leone army during its civil war(1991- 2002) with the rebels of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), provides an extraordinary and heartbreaking account of the war, his experience as a child soldier and his days at a rehabilitation center. At the age of twelve, when the RUF rebels attack his village named Mogbwemo in Sierro Leone, while he is away with his brother and some friends, his life takes a major twist. While seeking news of his family, Beah and his friends find themselves constantly running and hiding as they desperately strive to survive in a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. During this time, he loses his dear ones and left alone in the

     The longest running tradition in medicine, bloodletting, was a widely accepted practice with a three-thousand year-old history from the ancient Egyptians to the late 19th century. At that time, physicians thought that disease was a curse caused by the supernatural. It was a common idea that blood carried the vital force of the body and was the seat of the soul. Anything from body weaknesses to insanity were attributed to a defect in this vital fluid. Bloodletting was a method for balancing other fluids in the body and cleansing it of impurities. Shakespeare takes the same knowledge of blood and applies it to “Macbeth” in which the connotations not only foretell one’s glory but also one’s guilt.

Often times, settings aid in setting a tone for a piece of writing. In "Rough Road Ahead: Do Not Exceed Posted Speed Limit" by Joe Kurmaskie, the setting is able to instill varying emotions into the author. The desolate desert that Kurmaskie is trapped in elicits feelings of hopelessness and debilitation. After trusting someone for directions, he has gotten lost; which has led into severe dehydration, desperation, and exhaustion. Throughout Kurmaskie's period of weakness, he was also furious due to the misdirection. The further Kurmaskie traveled into nothingness, the worse his feelings and physical state would progress.

What was the importance of Nat Turner and where does he stand in American history? Nat Turner is an American slave, who has been forgotten about in history as well in the hearts of African-Americans. He led and organized one of the bloodiest slave rebellions in American history. This rebellion was "…the rebellion that served to change the course of American history in the three decades before the Civil War" (Goldman 10). Within this paper, it is to analyze on his impact on the nation.

the play are ―rich symbol[s]‖ that convey the barriers of a ―racist society‖ (Kenny par. 18). The

The childhood of Nat Turner was one of an unusual for the slave during this time. He grew up playing with his owner’s kids. Around this age kids didn’t see a difference between each other than their skin color, but they didn’t see one superior than the other like grown

Harriss, M. Discusses Nat Turner’s Confessions – my artifact – the articles explain following Gray’s “framing”

In Akin’s play the pastoral has been corrupted. The evils and vices we most-closely associate with the city are reversed and the raw landscape tarnished by the institution of slavery. However, this corruption does not extend itself to the figure of Uncle Tom. Even though Tom operates in a system of slavery that is completely devoid of law, he still uses his moral compass of Christianity to make moral choices. For example, Uncle Tom could have very easily run off with the 500 dollars belonging to his master, but follows his orders out of his love for the Lord. Out of obedience to his Christian master, God, he abides in his worldly master. Obviously, this is a plantacratic argument, and perhaps Uncle Tom should have run off with the money, but he provides the audience with a sense of “hope” because he is rewarded in the afterlife. With an institution as fundamentally evil as chattel slavery, one of the only spaces for belief in providence for the many is in the form of Heaven, which comes only after death. The last scene of the play, the Apotheosis of Uncle Tom, proves that the masses (slaves) will experience goodness if they use Christianity as a moral compass by which to conduct