Analysis Of The Transformation Of Silence Into Language And Action By Audre Lorde

“Silence is violence” is a common phrase used by people nowadays which references people who lack initiative when it comes to speaking out against oppression. The same phrase could be applied to the ideas within Shusaku Endo’s novel, Silence. Endo was clever to name his novel Silence, because the word is a very prominent symbol within the story. In fact, it plays a crucial role to the development of the main character. Although some readers may argue that the role of silence in the book is neutral, I claim that silence plays a negative role for the characters because it is what causes protagonist Rodrigues to renounce his faith. In the story, it represents the silence of God, which induces Rodrigues to question his religion through the torture of innocent Japanese Christians.

Belief perseverance is defined by Meyers as "Persistence of one's initial conceptions, as when the basis for one's belief is discredited but an explanation of why the belief might be true survives." This phenomenon is readily observable and at many times throughout the film Prisoners of Silence. It can be observed in the man who discovered facilitated language, parents of autistic children, teachers, facilitators and even in the view of the film.

Could the killing of an unborn disabled child be considered acceptable in today’s society? Selective infanticide is a very controversial topic that many have argued about over past years. In her article “Unspeakable Conversations” disabilities activist and lawyer Harriet McBryde Johnson demonstrates her viewpoint on this issue. She writes this article as a story, with herself being the narrator. It follows her journey as she feuds with Peter Singer, a Princeton University professor, who has an opposing perspective regarding the killing of unborn disabled children. With this in mind, Johnson reveals her point of view using the strategy of a Rogerian argument and the rhetorical elements of

Chaim Potok uses many different types of silence in The Chosen. He utilizes many of them to facilitate illustrating the characters’ beliefs and emotions. The silence helps to buoy the imagery and strength of the emotions and assists in adding depth to the moment. Each silence also helps to clarify the messages that pass through the story, making them sharper and additionally refined.

In the essay “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action”, Audre Lorde described the cause and meaningful that why we need to break the silence. Lorde believes silences will not protect ours, so people need to make contact to build a communication in order to bridge our difference. People exist difference due to the different race, gender, and sexual orientation. Then, keeping silence also a kind of fear that people afraid to face contempt, censure, judgment, re cognition, challenge, or annihilation. Lorde wrote this essay due to her was told by two doctors that she might have to have breast surgery because her tumor might malignant. Then, there was a three-week period between the telling and the actual breast surgery, so she started to reorganization her entire life. She realized that death is the final silence, and she needs to speak herself because silence cannot protect her as a Black lesbian poet. Honestly, I am curious about that the

Language is much more than a method of communication. Permeated within it are traditions, customs, and legacies of one’s culture. The identity of an entire population is in the distinct vocalizations of their native language. Unfortunately, as a wave of immigrants enters the United States at young ages, many face language barriers that pose significant challenges. Language barriers affect a multitude of immigrant populations to different degrees. This, in turn, causes many of them to abandon not only their native tongue but a piece of their ethnic identity, as well. In Maxine Hong Kingston’s personal narrative,“The Language of Silence,” she describes the difficulties she experienced throughout her childhood with a language barrier as a

In today’s society, we generally view upon everyone as equal; however this view did not exist for decades. Throughout history, there were many instances showing that men dominated women and women were often seen as left with less important or treated as an inferior being. Women were often expected to be good mothers to their children as well as caretakers to their husband. After reading the play “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell, I was able to grasp the important facts about social views of women and their domestic roles. Glaspell’s play depicts the gender inequality which exists in the society, drawing significant attention to the societal values of women at that time. Although women’s roles are treated as unimportant, she depicts women’s

I thought that Silent Ears, Silent Heart was an excellent book. It really gave you a full prospective of what a family and a person has to go through living a life without being able to hear sound it also helps you realize what someone has to go through that can’t hear what is going on around them. The book starts off with a couple named the Clines there’s Mr. Cline who is Jack who runs his own multimillion dollar business in a glass production. His dream is to have his son at his side and follow in his footsteps and run the family business someday. Then there’s Mrs. Cline who is Margret who is a stay at home wife that is waiting the arrival of their child.

Spokesperson and leader of the Civil rights, Marther Luther King Jr., once said, “the ultimate tradegy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.”Oppression has, is, and always will be part of a society and there will always be oppressors; however, it is up to the individuals being oppressed to speak up and end the oppression that occurs in a community, it is there job to identify the rights and wrongs and not let the cycle of oppression continue, it is their obligation to speak up and act, it is under their accountability to terminate oppression and not let it snare them. In the book Black Boy by Richard Wright and “Overcoming Obstacles: What Oprah Winfrey Learned From Her Childhood

She proclaims, “–Know that survival is not an academic skill. It is learning how to take our differences and make them strengths,” (Lorde 112). Lorde, herself is a black lesbian feminist, and calls for action that liberation can occur when all voices are included, and when differences are embraced, not only tolerated. She asserts, “As women, we have been taught either to ignore our differences, or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression. But community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist,” (Lorde 112). Not participating is ignoring the differences and acknowledges replicating systems of power and oppression that feminism claims to be working against. People are enabled to speak up for themselves, because there are others to listen when needed. Working together with people who have similar issues are more prone to create change, because it involves more motivation and participation. Those involved are not just part of the change but are the reason for the change, which makes it

The short essay by Audre Lorde,” the transformation of silence into language and action” serves as an inspiration to every women to keep aspiring to their dreams. Lorde argues that too many women hesitate to speak up for themselves in times of injustice much like the author admitted to encountering in the beginning of the passage. Lorde views silence as the enemy that prevails in all women, especially to African American women. Fear being one of the many consequences that may result from voiced opinions. Lorde explains that speaking up allows one to discover just how truly powerful an individual is.

In our class discussions and reading, I learned that women were once in charge of the human race, women were a part of a community, no race was inferior or superior, there was peace and harmony in the world until the patriarchal era came, planning to embed itself in the ground for a long time. Women were raped of their identity, their race and their status in society. Men ruled the biblical stories, leaving Mary out. Hence, the war started between the races, women fought to gain their identity back and to do so, they started with writing. One of those women was Audre Lorde. Audre Lorde was raised in a very sheltered family. She was protected by her mother who believed that white people should not be trusted. Seeing her mother

Then, we consider the aspect of posing an argument. As in any arguments, a premise is significantly weakened when factors are affected by personal opinions, judgments and experiences. When using the first person narrative, the fact that its structure relies on the use of words relating to ones self, an argument can be significantly weakened. In this case, since it is the protagonist expressing her own ideas/ rebelling against racism, her stand is significantly weakened. Comparatively, in “A sense of Shame”, the idea of multiple people taking a stand does help to bring about a much more stronger idea of “social norm” and “making a stand”. However, when used correctly, the first person

The utterance “Guys, I’m standing right here. So I can hear anything that you’re saying” performed by Stu that is an act of complaining although without the word “complain”. According to Merriam Webster Dictionary, complain; to say or write that you are unhappy, sick, uncomfortable, etc., or that you do not like something.

It is difficult to imagine a life without a means of communication. There is no doubt communication plays a big role in one’s everyday life. As a matter of fact, everyone does it everyday. The Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s “Hush” episode it “talks” a lot about communicating with others. The episode uses an extended metaphor which displays a great lesson. The extended metaphor in “Hush” shows a society cannot survive if communication does not exist, revealing the importance of communicating with people in our lives before chaos happens.