Colson Whitehead

Everyday we all experience certains people’s behavior based on how important or better they believe they are than everyone else. Many aspects contribute to the way that Europeans see themselves. Although most of these were created many centuries ago, they still have major, long-lasting effects on today’s world.This is continued throughout real life, not just in the movies that we’ve seen today. Like the movie, The Last of the Mohicans for example, the Native Americans are seen as lesser beings than

feminist”. A womanist is “outrageous, audacious, courageous or [exemplifies] willful behavior” (Walker). She is one who is “committed to survival and wholeness of entire people, male and female.” In the novel The Underground Railroad (2016) by Colson Whitehead, which is a novel about protagonist Cora, who is trying desperately to escape the evils of slavery, readers meet a lineage of strong women: Ajarry, Mable, and Cora. These women struggles are depicted in a period of time where slavery stood at

The novel, The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead vividly describes the challenges of a fictitious slave named Cora in the early 1800s as she escapes from her plantation in Georgia and the violent lifestyle she must endure as she travels north to avoid being captured by the slave catchers or patrols looking for her. Capture by any patrol or slave catcher would result in deadly torture upon her return to her old plantation, so Cora is faced with only a single choice: to avoid these predators

Torture and punishment has been used for decades in many different situations. In the story of the Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, Cora faces many different variations of torture both physically and mentally. All of the situations Cora faced throughout her enslaved years up until she gained her freedom brought on many mental and physical defects, all while shaping her character. Throughout the story, Cora suffered from many different types of abuse and neglect. As any other slave, the

our country's past mistakes continue on into current day? Every single U.S history textbook covers the civil war, slavery, and the underground railroad, it is a staple in any modern day history class. Many of the horrors of slavery are addressed in Colson Whitehead’s novel “The Underground Railroad”, a fictional novel that takes us through the attempted escape of the protagonist Cora, a slave born and raised on a plantation in Georgia. Despite what the average person believes, the stories from the

and accountability for all. Influential Figures and Perspectives In both "The Nickel Boys" and "When They See Us," we see the profound impact of influential individuals in shaping the narratives of systemic injustice and institutional abuse. Colson Whitehead and Ava DuVernay, as creators of these works, play a crucial role in bringing these stories to light and amplifying the voices of those who have been marginalized and harmed by unjust systems. Additionally, the experiences of Elwood Curtis and

Now having read all of Zone One by Colson Whitehead, I learned that coming together as one hand is not always the right thing to do. This is appalling to me because I would have never agreed to such a statement prior to reading the book. Nonetheless, Whitehead opened my eyes to the concept of individuality through Mark Spitz on a deeper level. Now although, Spitz did not go against the main goal of getting rid of the undead, he preferred to be on his own, reviewing his own mind and memories, along

The “The Nickel Boys” novel by Colson Whitehead, is about a teenager inspired by Martin Luther King Jr., as he faces tough challenges at his school called Nickel Academy. A boy goes to a school hoping to make friends and make a good impact, he soon finds that this school is not like he thought it would be. He tried to identify why they don't like him, he then realized the disgusting truth of what his peers think of him. Unfortunately, this is the reality for most visible minorities, which is beautifully

This idea can be applied to the slaves in the American in 18th and 19th centuries. Slavery first rooted in the country purely for one purpose, which was for profit. However, that developed into domination of the entire African race in America. Colson Whitehead highlights the mentality behind the concept of one race controlling another race in the novel Underground Railroad. The novel is about a teen slave girl, Cora, running away from Georgia to a free state in the North in order to escape her cruel

a cognitive dissonance and destabilizes our everyday relationships so that one no longer just sees a man, but a black man with all the other associations of blackness that shape ones cognitive. However, the zombie post-apocalyptic world that Colson Whitehead creates