Summary Of Reena Virk's Tell: Poems For A Girlhood

knew in order to detach herself from society’s standards and her emotional attachment to people,

We watched a movie based on the incident called ‘Rosewood”. In the movie you really get imagine of what the white people was doing. As, I said the white people didn’t care about anything. They was just killing people left and right for the fact they thought one black man raped one white woman. Truly, I believe that

Cullen is hopeful to get to a place where people of different races will be able to look at others without prejudice and discrimination. However, the poem “Incident” is of a less positive tone. She expresses her experience in a shocked manner, saying, a boy stuck his “tongue out and, called, [her] ‘Nigger’,” (Cullen 8). She was so shocked that “From May until December; .../… of all the things that happened... /… that’s all [she could remember” in Baltimore (Cullen 10-12). At the young age that she was at, it is surprising and upsetting to her to be discriminated against for no reason.

[insert example about her dressing up and what she felt while men approached her unsuspecting of who she really was]

Racism had tainted her life from the very beginning. During her childhood she attended a one-room school for blacks only. She was only allowed to attend school for a short time due to the ailing health of

Her boyfriend at the time was one of the first to be questioned. The situation with him is important because it showed the tactics that were used by the authority of the white people against blacks at the time. While the legal system was intended to protect everyone including black people against this type of activity, it was often rigged by the white elites of the time.

Racism can and does lead to violence a majority of the time. It is detrimental flaw in society, where innocent people are killed daily due to their skin tone. In Wolf Whistle, Bobo was a fourteen year old African American boy that was murdered by two white men because he wolf whistled at a white female. He was killed simply because a white man named Solon thought that Bobo’s action was outrageous due to his skin color. Unfortunately, racists people like Solon still walk among us today. They are referred to as white supremacists, since they firmly believe they are better than other races. Killings like Bobo’s still happen today but to a lesser degree. Bobo’s death was a long, slow and vicious death that no human should ever have to go through.

As much as society does not want to admit, violence serves as a form of entertainment. In media today, violence typically has no meaning. Literature, movies, and music, saturated with violence, enter the homes of millions everyday. On the other hand, in Beloved, a novel by Toni Morrison, violence contributes greatly to the overall work. The story takes place during the age of the enslavement of African-Americans for rural labor in plantations. Sethe, the proud and noble protagonist, has suffered a great deal at the hand of schoolteacher. The unfortunate and seemingly inevitable events that occur in her life, fraught with violence and heartache, tug at the reader’s heart-strings. The wrongdoings Sethe endures are significant to the meaning

This book is not for the sensitive reader. In this book, Ronson takes one into the victims lives and shows the effects of brutal shaming. For example, Ronson tells the story of a woman by the name of Justine Sacco, who posted a racist tweet. Within a short period of time, Justine had been completely obliterated on Twitter. Justine lost her job, and self-worth due to her public shaming.

There are some images and events that stick with a person forever and can change their entire outlook on life. Sometimes these events are experienced indirectly, through the media, but that does not mean that it impacts the person any less. Audre Lorde is one of those people who is indirectly affected by a tragedy that she witnesses through the eyes of the media and her society. For Audre Lorde, the brutal murder of a young African American boy sticks with her and inspires her to write an emotional poem entitled “Afterimages.” The image of the boy, Emmett till, is forever engraved in Audre Lorde’s brain (Lorde 48). Her poem clearly expresses how distraught she is, not only with what happens to Emmett Till, but also with the views of society as a whole. The theme for Audre Lorde’s “Afterimages” is traumatic events can reflect the attitudes of members of a society and can also significantly impact the lives of young people.

Because of this, the reader gets a mood a sympathetic that is evident throughout the article. This is evident because in the text it says,” White students were mean to the Little Rock Nine every day. They threw ink, books, and rocks at them. Elizabeth got some of the worst abuse. People pushed her down the stairs.

This is a poem that is mainly directed to the violence that was often experienced by children with an African-American ethnicity. The violence was mainly experienced on the streets where a majority of these children lived.

She would treat them horribly and still expect them to worship her. She would also expect excessive admiration from her parents even when she misbehaved. She grew up as an only child and with a mother as the head of a large fashion company and a father that later run away to live in France. Therefore her parents had little time to give her attention so she seeked to from other people through popularity or relationships. One person she seeks admiration from was Chuck Bass, even when her clearly was not ready for a relationship she still sought attention from him.

colleagues would view her as weak and she wanted the respect of her peers. She was also