Colson Whitehead

The novel “The Nickel Boys” by Colson Whitehead is a story about Elwood Curtis and his experience at the Nickel Reform Academy. Throughout this story, Whitehead touches on many extreme topics which continue to be conflicts in present day society. Whitehead not only writes about these topics, but he describes the extent of the consequences of these issues to put them into perspective and further the understanding of the reader. This book is a great read for high school students to open up their eyes

texts of The Colossus of New York, “Goodbye to All That,” and “Here is New York,” by Colson Whitehead, Joan Didion, and E. B. White respectfully. While all three authors have their own point of views about New York, they do manage to use some similar elements to express their knowledge of city while still having differences. All three authors use imagery to create a mental picture of what is being read. However, Whitehead uses satire, Didion uses the literary device of hyperbole, and White uses cacophonous

Violence is a part of everyday life, especially in the book The Underground Railroad, written by Colson Whitehead. In The Underground Railroad, Cora, the heroine, encounters so much violence and brutality on her journey to freedom. The violence Whitehead uses in his book helps develop the characters and helps evolve the plot. During Cora's journey, she sees individuals being hung, hears how Ridgeway tortured her friends, and even endured obstacles herself such as rape. Even though this book is a

Through Colson Whitehead’s vivid language in The Underground Railroad, the reader, like the dancing slave, forgets the terrorizing presence of slave masters and is discomfited by as the overseer’s abrupt arrival whilst also getting a purview into slave community life in the 19th century. Amidst festivities for a senior slave’s birthday, the narrator suddenly interjects, “THE music stopped. The circle broke.” The brevity of the two sentences only elevate the suspense of the moment and the slaves’

school that was located in Florida and wasn’t shut down until recently. The amount of abuse that took place there is absolutely disgusting and wasn’t discovered for many years. Colson Whitehead emphasizes within The Nickel Boys how discrimination divides us through trauma, The Jim Crow Laws, and the abuse of power. Whitehead expresses the traumatic experiences that some boys went

The novel The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead vividly describes the challenges of a fictitious slave named Cora as she escapes from her plantation in Georgia and the violent lifestyle she must abide by in the north to avoid being captured by the slave catchers or patrollers looking for her. Capture by any patroller or slave catcher would result in deadly torture upon her return to her old plantation, so Cora only is faced with a single choice: to avoid these predators at all costs. Throughout

According to Colson Whitehead in “The Underground Railroad,” it states,”Not content to wait for laws to change or for slavery to implode itself, railroad activities helped individual fugitive slaves find the light of freedom. Harriet Tubman is sometimes referred to as the

New York City is one of those places that changes in a blink of an eye. In Lost and Found, by Colson Whitehead, Whitehead observes the changes in atmosphere that he often sees in the city and connects it to the fall of the twin towers that happened just months before publication. In Whitehead’s New York, he often sees a lot of locations being changed or replaced. For example, one of the changes Whitehead imagines a cafe now becoming a pharmacy. My NYC is an unfortunate result of gentrification, facing

The Underground Railroad is a fictional novel written by Colson Whitehead that was first published in 2016. This is WHitehead’s sixth novel he has written. However, this book is his first one to have won a Pulitzer prize award. I chose this book due to its connection with the slave time period and, after reading the novel, I would encourage others to read this novel as well. Colson creates an escapist approach to explore the legacy of American racial trauma. The Underground Railroad provides many

among five boroughs and each have their own set routine. Each one of those 8.3 million see New York in a different way becuase “You start building your private New York the first time you lay eyes on it” (“City Limits” 4). Some people are like Colson Whitehead who “was born here and thus ruined for anywhere else” (“City Limits” 3). Others may have “moved here a couple years ago for a job. Maybe [they] came here for school” (“City Limits” 3). Different reasons have brought these people together. They