Patsy And Joby Analysis

When I read the notes, I got an idea of comparison of Janie and the mule. Like the mule, Janie is doing whatever her husband like without questioning. She first married without her choice reveals that the mule didn’t choose her owner. Even she became the wife of the mayor in her second marriage, she treated as mule. I definitely agree with that Janie feels sympathy for the mule because she treated like the mule by her husband. Even though she didn’t want to go to the store, she would go because she didn’t have any power to object him. Like Matt Bonner’s mule, she always obeyed Jody. She restricted by her husband what to do and do not. He didn’t allowed her to speak in public and to left her hair open. Janie didn’t oppose him rather she accepted

Both stories portray racism in between ethnic

She talked back to Nanny and had an attitude while she talked back to her. “‘Ain’t nothing wrong with me!’” “‘He ain’t wiping his feet on me!’” “‘I ain’t mean no harm Nanny’”(Their)! Janie talked back to Nanny because the lack of discipline she had not been taught. Oprah also never gave any background information about Nanny or Janie’s parents. ‘“and as a result, viewers were not really able to understand what Janie was going through’” (Kikaya). Oprah leaving out Janie’s background, the audience will never understand why Janie acts disrespectful towards Nanny and shows the strength she does. In Zora’s version she acted obedient and well-disciplined if she did anything wrong, by taking that out they made Janie in the movie shows grown actions that lacks respect. The audience will also never know that Janie did not find out until the age of six she had a darker skin tone than her friends she played with growing older. “... Ah didn’t know Ah wuzn’t white till Ah was round six years old” (Hurston 8). By Janie having a darker skin tone and growing up with white children made her to never see color because at one point she did not even think of herself as black. Oprah mentioned Nanny dying but never expressed how Janie felt; Zora tells the readers that Janie never really loved Nanny but more so hated her because Nanny did not see the

In the short story “Brownies” by ZZ Packer there are a few different settings throughout the story. The use of multiple settings serve as a purpose to establish the mood of the story, and give the reader better insight to the characters and the theme of “Brownies,” racism. The conflict of Arnetta claiming that one of the girls from Troop 909 called Daphne the n word is tied in with the theme of story, and the setting of where Laurel, the narrator lives, the type of school her and the rest of her troops go to, the time period they live, and the bathroom at the camp all work as a part of the story in order to help give the audience a deeper understanding of the conflict and theme of “Brownies.”

This story took place during the 1900’s around 1926 when there was difficulty being a black woman. The use of poor diction really puts emphasis on the fact that there is going to be sympathy shown to Delia. Delia is living in a poor environment where she is uneducated and beat by her husband. On page 603, Delia is doing her laundry and wash for the “white folks”, and Skyes does not approve of that. Hurston makes sure to show sympathy to Delia as Skyes tries to tear her work down by saying, “Yeah, you just come from de church house on a Sunday night, but heah you is gone to work on them clothes. You ain’t nothing but a hypocrite,” (Hurston 603). The way that Hurston uses the word choice really makes a difference when reading the story. The reader can start to really feel the tone and imagine where it is taking place. When the men in the store start talking about Skyes new girlfriend Bertha, there is sympathy because Delia is being betrayed. Once again Delia is getting betrayed and abused by her husband in an emotional way. Hurston once again uses poor diction to convey the workers at the stores attitude towards the new women. When Skyes walks in with Bertha, immediately the clerks of the store leave. The way Skyes tried to show Bertha off was hurtful, “Git whutsoever yo’ heart desires, Honey” (Hurston 606). Skyes would never talk to Delia that way, he would beat her if she tried to get

While Wright focuses his argument on the fact that Hurston doesn’t analyse the issue of race relations, he fails to recognize the novel’s focus on feminism. The fact that Wright is focused on civil rights and the fact that he is looking primarily for evidence supporting race relations can be seen, as he states that Hurston depicts blacks in a “safe and narrow orbit in which America likes to see the Negro live” (Wright). While he may be correct that this is the case, he fails to notice that that was not what Hurston was focusing on, and that was not what she intended to convey. Hurston was rather focusing on the Women’s Rights movement, as shown by Janie making her own choices and given increasing rights throughout the book. Janie moved from a marriage that was set up for her (with Killicks), to a marriage that she chose to take part in but was suppressed (with Joe Starks), to a marriage where she was treated as an equal (with Tea Cake). After strained relationships with Killicks and Joe Starks, Janie exclaims about her relationship with Tea Cake that “Somebody wanted her to play [checkers]. Somebody thought it was natural for her to play” (Hurston 92). This indicates a drastic change from her previous relationships, such as her one with Joe Starks, where Janie was frequently beaten and suppressed. That Janie was given more of a say in her marriages can be used to indicate how women were also given more of a say in the twentieth century -- after the passage of

In the story, the main character, Lily, ran away to a household of black women. As a white girl running away with her black caretaker to a family of black women, Lily was looked at as a someone who did not get the racial divide, especially during the 1960s. At the beginning of the book, Lily’s caretaker Rosaleen was beaten by white police officers after she spit tobacco onto a couple white men’s shoes after they harassed Rosaleen about registering to vote. This shows how the southern was unwilling to change their views of black people because they were previous slaves. The southern white still viewed the black community as inferior. They treated the blacks still as if they had no rights; the white community beat them, yelled at them, and segregated them. For a police officer to beat a black women on such a little infraction it shows that the white police officer thought he had to break the law to put a black woman “in her place”. This is completely relevant to society today because there are still acts of racism and hate crimes towards blacks. Recently on March 20, 2017, a black homeless man, Timothy Caughman, was fatally stabbed by a white army veteran, James Harris Jackson. Caughman’s murder was later deemed a hate crime. (CBS News) This tragic event happened very recently

of the blind hatred of blacks at the time this story took place. By blind hatred

Racism is represented to strengthen Harper Lee’s theme of prejudice. Mrs. Dubose yells at Jem and Scout across the street, “‘Your father’s no better than the niggers and trash he works for!”’ (Lee 117). Mrs. Dubose showed quite the character of racism. She is upset and angry that Atticus is helping Tom in

Nanny was determined that Janie would break the cycle of oppression of black women, who were "mules for the world". (Both of Janie's first two husbands owned mules and the way they treated their mules paralleled to the way

One of the ways the two essays are similar is because both characters were discriminated against themselves. For example, In Black men and Public Space Staples was discriminated against for his skin color. He lived in a part of Chicago where it was mostly white American people. Sometimes people would not look his way and ignored him because they thought he was up to no good. The reason for that was because white people did not want to associate with a black man. Staples was also discriminated because of the way he walked at night. In the essay, an example of that was when Staples explained that he was walking behind a woman. The woman turned around and saw him. The woman thought he was a mugger because Staples was black. In his own words, Staples described “After a few more quick glimpses; she picked up her pace was soon running in earnest, within seconds she disappeared into a cross street” (pg195). That was the kind of discriminations he had

This book is set in western Wisconsin in the year of 1864. At the beginning of the book Caddie Woodlawn is outside playing with her brothers, Tom and Warren. When they return home they meet the Circus Rider, who is a pastor that travels from town to town.

Both American and Iranian culture includes great admiration and pride in the strength of their nation, especially in their own militaries. Joe and Marjane sees this pride all around them and it ends up affecting them both very much. Marjane grows up during the Islamic Revolution and the war against Iraq and she is constantly seeing her own government and world change. Due to growing up surrounded by war and patriotism, Marjane, like her parents, becomes anti-authoritarian in an attempt to distance herself from the nationalistic pride she believes is too out-of-control. Joe, on the other hand, pairs his hatred of Nazi Germany and the helplessness he feels in not being able to save his family with American nationalism and uses this to fuel his

Solomon Northup describes Patsy, as, “excoriated. Her back bore the scars of a thousand stripes; not because she was backward in her work, nor because she was of an unmindful and rebellious spirit, but because it had fallen to her lot to be the slave of a licentious master and a jealous mistress.”( 189, Northup) The ordeals that Patsey endured were heart wrenching, things that she went through should have drove her insane. In fact, the horrors and heartbreak drove Pastey to endure no

Although the maids were struggling and going through a difficult time in 1960’s, The Help portrays that their family members were too. Segregated society against the backdrop of the growing US civil rights movement in the 1960’s has an impacted. “Race also determines who has access to educational, occupational, and economic opportunity. Racial tensions are high as white community members employ violence and coercion to try to keep the Civil Rights Movement from sweeping into their Mississippi town” (Shmoop Editorial Team). The white community in the movie continue to keep the black women as their servants throughout their lives. As Skeeter the white lady, who writes a book about The Help and portrays through the book that the African American women go through. As the white women of Jackson, Mississippi read the book they began to act more violent to the black women. The book is away as the black women to make a statement about the civil rights they have.