The Longest Memory: Techniques and Structure Used to Illustrate Points of View

The historical fiction novel ‘the longest memory’ set in the 18th century depicts a character ‘Whitechapel’, an elderly slave working at a plantation, in Virginia. Whitechapel, unlike other slaves is treated with more respect from the ‘white’ individuals in the novel and accepts the treatment inflicted on him by the white men, stating that if he acts with respect then receive good treatment. However, towards the ending of the novel it is prevalent that he desires for things to change following the death of his beloved son ‘Chapel’. The black diggers in the play ‘black diggers’ set in 1914 Australia, are similarly treated in an inhumane manner by white men. The black diggers desire for change in this area and therefore enlist to fight for Australian in the first world war. They long that when they will return, the inhumane treatment they received will no longer be, however, they faced further scrutiny by the white Australian society upon their return.

“Wild Seed” possesses a meaning, a person of burden with one’s own powers, which the characters Anyanwu and Doro partake throughout the story. The main characters are unique, giving them their important roles such as special powers like shape shifting, body possession and immortality to some of the central characters. With each characters ability’s, they find ways to deal with their situations to adapt while victims of this story survive throughout the story as bestowed African’s to slavery in the United States. This novel not only reflects the survival in America, but giving the idea of slavery to an alien abduction giving convergence from Africa to the United States as if it was a place for these aliens to hold their victims captive, in this Afrocentric setting. The slaves are completely imprisoned and unable to go back to their native land, demanded to be obedient by Doro, the patriarch of the colony created and the one who brought these slaves to the states. Writing a story as a science fiction novel, Octavia Butler’s Wild Seed illustrates an unreal impression on its main themes--- Slavery, Post vs. Neo-Colonialism, Patriarchy vs. Western Modernity in the eighteenth century.

In Frederick Douglass’ The Heroic Slave, readers are first introduced to Madison Washington, an enslaved black man, through the perspective of the narrator, Mr. Listwell, a white, northern traveller. It is through this description of his physical features that we are able to catch a glimpse of Washington’s personality - one which defies and breaks stereotypes of black men in the nineteenth century.

Themes: One of the main themes of the text was "white security." Part of the fear of having freed blacks in the areas where slavery was practiced, was the fear that freed blacks would inspire black slaves to revolt. There was also a fear that slaves with too much "freedom" or that were literate were also prone to inspire others to revolt and cause physical harm to the white man, or even worse, the white woman. Much of this fear was unfounded because many revolts resulted in no loss of white life, with the exception of the Nat Turner insurrection, which only served to deepen the fear for white security and cause restrictions to be tightened not only on slaves, but freed blacks as well.

The first thing that holds a lot of power in this story is that it is immediately personalized. The author has found somebody willing to tell her own story about slavery in Mauritania, and that immediately creates a sense of sympathy for the reader. The situation in Mauritania is also compared with the United States and the rest of the world, and this juxtaposition shows just how inhumane the situation there is, because the rest of the world has left slavery behind and the people there have not. There are other devices as well. For example, the lighter-skinned slave owners contrasted with the dark-skinned slaves serves a dual purpose in the article. The first is to create a villain and a victim; the second is to remind us of our own past, so that we can sympathize further with the victim. The juxtaposition, however, leaves us wanting a hero, and that is also an effective device.

“The Slave Crucibles” and “A Federal Assault” provide different perspectives on the experiences of slaves. “The Slave Crucibles” contributes personal insight into the different aspects of the lives of slaves while “A Federal Assault” exhibits a generalized viewpoint on the effects of laws such as the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 on the majority of the slave population. Both pieces of literature demonstrate the injustices and demeaning treatment towards African Americans during the 19th century.

Compare and contrast the representation of the figure of the slave, and of the theme of freedom, in Douglass’s “Narrative” and Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”.

The title alone has the reader presuming the reading is focused primarily on American slavery, but to the contrary, it is not. In defense, this book does show the injustice of slavery in early America not only towards African Americans but to the Native Americans as well. But, Edmond 's book is long, and in some ways, very detailed. Morgan seems to delight himself in the telling of distinct specifics and at sometimes one might find themselves wishing he would not linger so much on all the glorious details. Believable or not, Morgan 's method of approach does have a purpose that readers will find at the end. But, as lengthy as this book is, the reader will have to be determined to get to the end. Through his detailed work, Morgan wants to display how society acquires its ugly, harsh and immoral traits through a gradual and dishonest system. Gradually, event by event and law by law the construction of what seems to emerge has even readers of the 20th century horrified and appalled. Yet, at that time, society and it 's up bringing appears to be the most logical, and appropriate thing to do.

The purpose of the Memory Motifs project is to examine “how American Jews came to know stories about Holocaust survivors through American Jewish philanthropic activities in the immediate postwar period.” Furthermore, the exhibit was created to allow public knowledge on the subject to form their own opinions. Throughout memory motifs, the author uses several different primary sources to analyze how American Jews point of view on the holocaust and understand how the narratives were altered. The sources included fundraising pamphlets, magazine articles, posters, radio broadcasts, short films, institutional records and public ephemera. The data was transformed into a website in a wiki format. The main page links to information about several different

“Nevertheless, because of her training in a white-ruled slave culture, it does not occur to her that a black person's being killed in a steamboat accident is as tragic as the death of white person” (Rasmussen 108). Cox and Rasmussen expose the effrontery of the slaveowner’s lack of sympathy towards his or her slaves, and the owners prove this fact by disregarding a slave’s position as a fellow human being. Gonzalez ! 2 In his father’s captivity, Huck suffers to the rantings of the devoutly racist Pap ranting about a “free nigger… from Ohio” who wears the “whitest shirt… gold watch and chain…”, works as a “p’fessor in a college”, and holds the the right to vote, uncommon for a black man in pre-Civil War times (Twain 39).

Phrases like 'a beacon’ ‘hopeful stream to freedom river’ and ‘healing star’ all show black history in a very good light, which makes Agard feel like he has gained a bit of identity that he didn't know about, like he is having to learn who he is all over again. As his background is being revealed, the reader feels a sense of happiness that he finally knows about himself, and he can really embrace who he

Within his criticism of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Gregory Fowler uses examples from both the book and Mark Twain’s own life to discuss the different ways in which racism has morphed. Instead of analyzing The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn critically and solely, Gregory Fowler critically analyzes parts of the book and its effect to prove the different ways in which slaver morphs through the uses of allusions, exemplifications, and anecdotes.

Music has always been a big part of my life. It has gotten me through the funnest of times and the hardest. My mom would incourage us to listen and express ourselves through the music we heard playing around us. My older sister used to sing to my little sister and I all the time and even got us involved. We would perform little shows where we would sing and dance for my mom after work. Pots and pans were the drums, we used a cardboard box and rubberbands to make a guitar, and we had a little toy microphone for the lead singer. I remember Respect by Aretha Franklin was always our favorite. We had a lot of sass and that song is all about the sass. To this day, that is one of my favorite memories.

The first couple chapters describe the slaves were suspected to be the murderers of the assassination of the whites. As dealing with the political issues about slavery, during the 1741 slave rebellion Supreme Court British Justice Daniel Horsmanden

Those events can be connected with the theory of trauma. A tale of trauma, in the example of the one mentioned above, have a self-representation in the autobiography and also an opposite reequirements with the authority. Taking this particular events as a case, it seems that there is a plan to portray them in a frank fashion with the purpose of evoking the malice towards slavery as a whole (Lee, p.266).