Lee uses this technique to challenge Miss Caroline's intolerant thinking, and more broadly the intolerance of Southern American society. Similar techniques are used by Satrapi in Persepolis to highlight the intolerance and oppression of the adult public society. ... Lee and Satrapi use similar and opposing techniques in their bildungsroman's to display the intolerance within their respective societies and the dichotomy of public and personal worlds. Satrapi's use of graphical and textual form enables her to more successfully explore personal and public values through symbolism a...

• Word Count: 1031
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Lee uses this technique to challenge Miss Caroline's intolerant thinking, and more broadly the intolerance of Southern American society. Similar techniques are used by Satrapi in Persepolis to highlight the intolerance and oppression of the adult public society. ... Lee and Satrapi use similar and opposing techniques in their bildungsroman's to display the intolerance within their respective societies and the dichotomy of public and personal worlds. Satrapi's use of graphical and textual form enables her to more successfully explore personal and public values through symbolism a...

• Word Count: 1031
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Color of Water The Color of Water: A Black man's tribute to his white mother by James McBride is the story of a young black man trying to reveal his mothers past and his own identity. Set in the 1960's in New York City, James tries to figure out his mothers past while struggling with his ow...

• Word Count: 512
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Micheaux challenges race relations by using a different approach to single shots and larger narrative construction. ... His use of cross-cutting during the sequence of Arnold Gridlestone's attempted rape of Sylvia and the lynching of her adoptive parents, Jasper Landry and his was a technique that helped in building suspense, causing a greater emotional response from the viewer. ...

• Word Count: 943
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Morrison uses two narrative voices. ... In "The Bluest Eye," Morrison shifts to varied narrative situations, which are: Claudia the first-person retrospective narrator and Claudia the first-person experiencing narrator. By using this technique, Morrison shows the reader that Claudia is retelling her own story about the way she acquired her adult understanding of racial prejudices. ...

• Word Count: 2371
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

This produced copious perspirations so that the air became unfit for respiration from a variety of loathsome smells, and brought on a sickness among the slaves, of which many died- - thus falling victims of the improvident avarice, as I may call it, of their purchasers" (From The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African, London, 1789) In The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African the protagonist recounts the pain involved in entering this enormous ship, and how, gradually, the more the ship flew over ...

• Word Count: 4160
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School