The Wealthy And The Poor In America

The protagonist of the poem is Rosa Parks, a seamstress and an active member in the local NAACP, who refused to give up her seat for a white man. Parks was arrested, which led to a boycott against Montgomery bus system. As a result of more than one year of boycott, the segregation law was announced unconstitutional.

A large portion of this poem is comparing the difference between black and white. In the poem it practically says “what if all the black is now white, and all the white is now black?”, then goes on to give some examples like “Black Presidents,

Secondly, the speaker of the poem can be described as underprivileged, and this is shown throughout the entire poem. For example, line 1 of the poem it states "some are teethed on a silver spoon” and line 5 it states "some are swaddled in silk and down”. This shows that the speaker is not the same as the person who is teethed on a silver spoon or cared for very carefully. This inclusion also shows that the speaker was not born into a wealthy family and so the speaker must fight for what they need pertaining to themselves and the family.

The stereotypes in the story, makes it difficult for the readers to conclude the race of each character. People assume that the African American character would be illiterate and uneducated and the white character to be well-educated. During the time period of the story African Americans did not have access to a decent education; making it harder for them to learn just the basics. Whites had access to good education, making it easy to believe the white character is more educated. It is also believed that a person that is well educated will have a better lifestyle when they are older. A well-educated person will have a better job, paying more, and have a better opportunity to afford the means of a luxurious lifestyle. An under educated person will most likely live in poverty, struggle for their basic needs, or live in a declining neighborhood. Behavior is a harder stereo type to use to distinguish a race. Many assume that whites have an entitled attitude toward life. Whites had access to a good education and jobs, they had a “I’m better than you” attitude. On the other hand, many think African Americans were upset because of how easy it was for whites to have better access to the basic necessities such as education and housing.

Cullen uses auditory imagery to draw his readers in to hear what he hears. The meaning of this poem is to take the reader on a journey of what the negro felt about

During the entirety of the poem the speaker uses the contrast of light and dark to illustrate the divide of Caucasian and Native American in her life and the specific wording she uses throughout shows that she is ends up moving away from her white heritage’s side. We first start to see that she is upset with her white roots when she states that her mother left her with “large white breasts” that weigh down her body. This statement is quite important. With the addition of the word “white” and the use of the words “weigh down” the narrator seems to be implying that it is a burden to carry the whiteness. Also, the narrator uses specific wording in this statement in order to disassociate herself from her own white leanings since she refers to her breasts as if they were her mothers and not her own. The next time she mentions the word white comes in the third stanza. The speaker devotes an entire line to the short phrase “and is white” almost as if to single out that word in the poem and signify that being white

In the poem it says on the first stanza in line one and two “Here on the edge of hell stands Harlem”. What part of Harlem? It doesn’t say. In the poem “The Weary blues” It states in stanza two, line one “Down on Lenox Avenue”. Now Lenox is a street in Harlem.

Another example in the poem of the similarities and differences between races is a when the author talks about the finances of Mister Samuel and Sam. ‘Mister Samuel deal wid high finance, Sam deal in a two-bit game; Mister Samuel crashes, Sam goes broke, But deys busted jes’ de same’ (Brown, 220) compares how the finances are much lower of the black man compared to the white man. This stanza continues by providing the similarities between the men. It discusses how both the white man and the black man experience financial downfall as a result.

What i feel like he mean by the poem is, the fact that h is from Winsto-Salem and go’s to a all white school called Harlem. Them things doesn't make him no different then the next person, or the fact that he is the only black man in his class. He want the teacher to see him for him no matter the color, age, or his personality. And so he say “ does it make his paper any different from yours

She's dressed in fur, obviously white and wealthy feels threatened. The speaker used imagery to differentiate both characters, which is a really important part of the poem. The second part of the story changes in tone. Compared to the first part, where the speaker was physically describing the characters.

Every person can be identified as rich or poor regardless of their other status be it in terms of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation or age. The author explained even in the most predominant White race, there were class divisions and the least fortunate were the so

This poem connects to themes from King Lear, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Great Gatsby, Things Fall Apart, and The Heart of Darkness. The theme it connects to in King Lear is the what for power. In the poem, the character has a choice to choose power and therefore better himself and his circumstances. The theme it connects to in A Streetcar Named Desire is vanity. In the poem, the character doesn't want to give up his vanity much like Blanche in the play. The theme it connect to in The Great Gatsby is the hollowness of the upper social class. In the poem, the character has to choose between being in the upper social class or being happy. In other words, being apart of the upper class brings no happiness to the character. The theme it connects

This piece focuses on the discrimination between races by showing how segregated it was. The way that Spencer began the poem states that everyone in the world should be equal and she does this by comparing people to nature. “Most things are colorful things- the sky, earth and sea./ Black men are most men; but the white are free!”. Here, she is saying black people are most people however the white are free to do as they please. That was how the day to day life was for people during this time period. The racial separation was best explained throughout this poem. For example in the early 20’s there were seperate water fountains, bathrooms and even separate seats on buses depending on the color of one’s skin. It is difficult to imagine how it could of been for people in the 20’s however Spencer explained it as if white people were superior than others. “White things are rare things; so rare, so rare”, meaning white people are one of kind or rare as she said in the third line of her

In this poem, Ms. Giovanni describes her childhood of happiness by showing another side of being poor and a minority. Throughout the poem, Ms. Giovanni describes how others view Black people stereotypically. However, the poet discusses how her black family interacted with each other and loved each other and the togetherness of the family despite their economic condition. She emphasizes that whites will not understand that she can be poor and be happy. Her childhood was not a constant hardship because the family provides happiness through their love for each other.

We then learn this is, as she says “I was now a college student, already in that process of cultural absorption that would leave me with a kind of double vision for the rest of my life. At seventeen, I knew well enough the differences between “us” and “them”.(p. 4, l. 1). This is a way for the narrator, and also the author, to, not necessarily blame society, but to show that there is a problem with the way we grow up to feel “superior”, or at least, different from those who are paid less or belong to a certain societal group. After the ride on the subway, and after the connection with the Puerto Rican woman and the black man in the red shirt, the narrator realizes that although they might be from different classes, that they are people like her, who have feelings and are not just “them”, as she was taught growing up in the middle class. It is in this realization that we see the message of the text, which is to not discriminate or prejudice people based on their