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Partially, The Harlem Renaissance occurred because
The Great Migration after the Civil War in The United States
In “Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston, Sykes is a symbol for
Satan
In “Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston, Delia is a
Jesus figure
Who does Sykes have an affair with?
Bertha, an obese woman who is lazy
Delia’s religious philosophy can be described as
Calvinistic
In African American Writing, this is a place for social gathering and commentary
Porch
Mr. Clark is an Archetype for
the silent wise man who listens much but speaks little
Mr. Clark comments that Sykes treats woman
like one chewing on sugar cane.
The type of criticism that we applied to "A&P" by John Updike was
Psychoanalytical and Marxist criticism.
In "A&P," Sammy is considered an
anti-hero because of his motivation for quitting
Marxist criticism involves
power structures and reading literature for the motif of exchanging goods for/and services
Sigmund Freud believed that
subconsciously one's appetite for physical love and violence mimicked one's appetite for food
The setting for science fiction must
either take place in a time period after or before our own and in an area that we are unfamiliar with.
In "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut, Harrison did these things to make him ugly
He shaved his eyebrows, wore a red rubber ball on his nose, had big head phones and glasses on, and put black caps on his teeth
Nietzsche believed that
all people were not created equally and government needed to stop striving to enforce this equality (from Harrison Bergeron)
An example of foreshadowing in "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson is when
the little boys are filling their pockets full of stones.
In "The Lottery," by Shirley Jackson some critics believe that the town leaders were going to have Tessie Hutchinson killed on purpose because
she doesn’t go long with the lottery
Postmodernism means that
there is MORE fragmentation and the inability to commit in literature than occurred in Modernism
Satire is
making fun of something to promote change
Narrative of Ascension
When someone ascends to a new part of the world to better themselves economically and socially and relates a tale about it. Ex: The Jeffersons
Narrative of Emersion
When someone returns from an area of economic gain to “find their roots.” They re-emerge themselves in the culture of their ancestors
Zora Neale Hurston’s “The Gilded Six Bits”
Story about a lady who cheats on her husband because she thinks he wants money more than her
Alice Walker’s “Every Day Use”
Story about twin sisters in confrontation over family quilts
Richard Wright’s “The Man who was Almost a Man”
David Glover wants to be a man, but he accidently shoots a mule
Ralph Ellison’s The Invisible Man
The first chapter of a book; the narrator feels like he doesn’t exist; a boy has to fight for a scholarship
Joel Chandler Harris’ Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit
Characters more than stories; beast fables that were metaphors for slave stories
Jean Toomer’s “Reapers,” from Cane
A poem from a book; black workers are compared to animals and machines
Paul Lawrence Dunbar’s '“We Wear The Mask”
Because society is evil, we cannot always be ourselves when we should
Dudley Randall’s “The Ballad of Birmingham”
A poem about a little girl who is tragically killed at church
Gwendolyn Brooks’ “We Real Cool”
Kids skip school, live fast, and die young
“The Gilded Six Bits”
Zora Neale Hurston
“Every Day Use”
Alice Walker
“The Man Who Was Almost A Man”
Richard Wright
The Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit
Joel Chandler Harris
“Reapers” from Cane
Jean Toomer
“We Wear The Mask”
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
“The Ballad of Birmingham”
Dudley Randall
“We Real Cool”
Gwendolyn Brooks
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