'The White Album' By Johan Didon

In the excerpt of the book "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr, the author uses the literary element of imagery in order to strengthen the main idea that blind people view the world in a different and unique way. This view is one that people with sight cannot understand nor picture. Doerr implements this element when describing how a blind person views the world. When describing how they view color and objects it sets an image in the readers mind to give them the ability to relate and to better understand the blind character. By understanding a sliver of how a blind person views the world the readers form a vision of their own. The Author uses imagery when describing how the character identifies certain objects and distinguishes one object from another.

Sometimes, it seems that the best representation of fiction is reality, not the other way

Night is a story that reveals some of the worst of the human race. It is a re-telling of a young Jewish boy, Ellie Wiesel, coming of age in the midst of the Holocaust. The book is quite short and very clearly written, but it is still a very hard book to read. The young boy who is also the author of the book makes us, the readers, accompany him through many in-human and near-death experiences. These are written in such detail that anybody taking the time to read the book will be left with an in-depth knowledge of what we as humans are unfortunately capable of and a desire to contribute in any way possible preventing this part of our history to ever repeat itself. This, I believe, is the authors goal, to teach us, make us aware through his own experience, and hence give us a reason to hopefully prevent it in the future.

In the late 1980’s, interest in critically examining whiteness grew, inspired by Critical Race Theory. White authors including David Roediger, Noel Ignatiev and Ruth Frankenberg began to explore whiteness. Other scholars of color continued delve deeper into the study of whiteness including George Yancy , Cheryl Harris, Sarah Ahmed and Gloria

In The White Scourge, Neil Foley gives detailed facts about the construction and reconstruction of whiteness and the connection of this whiteness to power, mainly on cotton culture in central Texas. Foley 's book analyzes “whiteness” through detailed analysis of race, class, and gender. What was most intriguing about this book is its comparison of whiteness on various racial groups and classes, for and how each struggled in comparison to the other in order to thrive and exist with one another. In this book, Foley shows a racial system that continues to produce both poverty material wise and poverty of where you stand racially. It is also very interesting that the system exploits not only Mexicans and Blacks, but also the poor whites who competed with them for work.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn once wrote that “the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.” And that couldn’t be more prevalent in the book, All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. Every single character struggles with the internal conflicts of right versus wrong, forcing them to do things that will change their life indefinitely. Whether it’s through Werner’s choice to murder a one of his one Nazi officers to save Marie-Laure, Or through Etienne’s actions to stop being a bystander of the war and instead risk his life to help defeat the Germans.

Joan Didion’s essay, “Los Angeles Notebook,” describes the Santa Ana winds and the negative effects it has on people worldwide. Didion’s use of descriptive imagery, enigmatic tone, and passionate selection of detail helps depict her views on the mysterious Santa Ana winds. Through Didion’s essay of the Santa Ana winds, Didion develops an enigmatic tone through her dicktion and connotation. An example of her tone could be found in line one, paragraph one, “...something uneasy... some unnatural stillness, some tension.”

Native Americans have been around for many of years. They were around for 10,000-30,000 years. This proves them to be the one of the first civilizations to begin in our country. In Daniel Richter’s prologue, he describes Native Americans in terms of “agency” through discussing their agriculture, culture, and civilization as a whole. The Never forgotten article portrays the tragedy of the Native American population through discussing their negative stereotypes and the “White Man’s Burden”. As a result of the “White Man’s Burden”, we see misconceptions of their humanity and culture. In the story of Pocahontas, we do not get the view of a Native American individual, instead an Englishman by the name of John Smith tells a narrative of Indian Princess, Pocahontas in his point of view. This causes inaccuracy in history through misconception of Native American culture, their beliefs, and always thinking negative/bad about them. In this case, John Smith talked very provocatively amongst Pocahontas. He sexualized her and talked about her physical traits and not so much how she was as a true person. In Daniel Richter’s Prologue: Early America as Indian, Never Forgotten, and Pocahontas, they describe Native American life before the Europeans came to America as civilized, diverse, and lively as well as depicted misconceptions of their culture and humanity through conveying an importance in historical agency and its role in developing a thriving civilization.

Stories of white homesteaders carried off into captivity by wild Indians have become highly romanticized in modern times. Films and novels present such tales as adventures and dramatic escapades that occurred throughout the frontier until the 1900s. The reality of such stories is quite different from the sensationalized depictions which are now so popular. This reality is the focus of the book White Into Red, wherein J. Norman Heard addresses the factors of assimilation, or lack thereof, on the part of white captives. He discusses such factors as the cultural background, the treatment of captives, the age when captured, the duration of captivity, and the cultural characteristics of those captured to gain an understanding into assimilation.

In the last paragraph of the essay “My Pen Writes in Blue and White”, Vincent Cremona infers that, through his childhood familiarity with blue-collar and white-collar working environments, he has attained an expansive world view that enables him to sympathize with various cultural backgrounds today. By enveloping this dual mindset of society, Cremona has developed an impartial writing style capable of communicating with a wide variety of backgrounds effectively, whom, in his words, is to “ see as either blue, or white, or some shade thereof” (195) In other words, the author explains that he can adopt either method of communication from blue-collar and white-collar societies individually, or blend the two styles together. By doing so, Cremona harnesses the authoritative terminology of white-collar speech, while exhibiting the “loud and brash” nature of blue-collar speech in one format to help achieve the intended audience reaction. (196) This point is demonstrated in the author’s earlier example, where after filing a complaint to an airline while utilizing this writing format, swift action was taken by the firm to compensate Cremona for his trouble. Cremona’s ability to persuade the airline was due, in part, to the author’s ability to convey emotion plainly and effectively through written words alone, thanks to his utilization of blue-collar speech; Cremona himself views this form of expression as “basic, bold, and workman-like [sic].” (195) In this definition, Cremona

Zora Neale Hurston was an influential writer, anthropologist, and civil rights activist throughout much of the first half of the twentieth century. A charming, well-educated, and outspoken black woman living in America, Hurston defied cultual constraints to make significant achievements in a field in which she had few peers. She had a passion for writing, and employed her training in anthropology to give richness to her insight on black culture in America. Though she passed away over a half a century ago, her body of work was rich with cultural value and is now being enjoyed by a new generation of readers who recognize its lasting importance.

James Cone postulated that “to be black is to be a human in a condition of social oppression involving the affirming in which the oppressor regarded as degrading”. In addition to this, cone argued that society has misinterpreted the meaning of black due to the fact that society is a institution ran by ‘white’ people. Blackness is not “criminality” in fact “black is … beautiful; oppressors have made it ugly.” James Cone defines the oppressor to be ‘white’, he argues that the oppressors are homogenous as they impose their beliefs on ‘black’ people. For example attending the opera in James Cones perspective is seen as a ‘white’ agenda. Furthermore, ‘white’ people are those who force ‘black’

The art I chose to look into is Lighthouse by Alan Foxx. It is a representational artwork of a lighthouse. The painting in its entirety is of a lighthouse on a stormy shore with a boat at sea. The art according to the artist himself is always up for interpretation but he personally likes the thought of the light house being a light in the dark. The focal point is the lighthouse. There are not really any implied lines in this artwork. All the actual lines are natural as it is a representational artwork. The natural shapes are natural and the man-made structures are extremely polygonal possibly just to create a juxtaposition of natural and unnatural. You can’t really see in the picture provided but the lighthouse has a hexagonal pattern on its

Zadie Smith’s White Teeth shows the difficulties that immigrants and their children go through while adapting to their new location. They must find a border between their past culture, and the one they now live in. Zadie Smith shows pessimism towards creating a third space of cultural difference—where cultural difference is an encouraged, positive thing—all while showing the gradual progression of cultural difference acceptance through the first generation immigrants to their children and how it effects the males and females differently—females being more accepting of a third space.

In the novel White Teeth by Zadie Smith she tackles several topics with humor and easily digestible pieces for a larger audience. The story follows two very different families and their difficulties that they face because of their family structure. Samad Miad Iqbal the most vocal about his life struggles with his identity as well as his family’s place in London. The main issue his family faces are the issues of “who they really are how they keep their roots?” Samad and his wife, Alsana, disagree on the way they should raise their children to keep their history alive. Alongside Samad is Alfred Archibald Jones who is a native to London, but still has difficulty with his existent in the world. Alfred Archibald Jones referred to as Archie is not