In addition, all of the symbolic statements except the final one are similes. ... The visual picture of a sore festering and then finally breaking open and running shows that an unaccomplished dream bothers and irritates everyone. ... The final line, "Or does it explode?" ...
Janie took such a long time finding out who she really was because she was brought up as a white child and didn't even realize she was African-American until she was six years old, and had her picture taken. "So when we looked at the picture and everybody got pointed out there wasn't nobody left except a real dark little girl with long hair standing by Eleanor. ... The final and most blatant jealousies that are found in the story are when Janie returns to Eatonville after her long relationship with Teacake. ...
While in their final deliberation, the jury can hear the commotion outside the courthouse between the followers of the K.K.K. and the black people as they fight to let their opinions known. In a deadlock the jury has no idea on what to do, until Wanda Crowell steps forth and asks the jury to close their eyes, and picture something in her heads. ...
In a final attempt to push Delia out of the house, Sykes brings a live snake into their home. ... Zora Neale Hurston is able to utilize her experience as an African American woman in the early twentieth century to paint the picture of a society in which people were discriminated against based on their gender, or the color of their skin. ...
The disruption of capitalism, unemployment, the arrival of new social organizations, and new demands brought many questions as to what was going to be the final result of this monstrosity. ... Mildred painted a picture of the racial discrimination that was going on at the time of World War II. ...
Willie enters the picture as a depersonalized, average-class black man who has just escaped work on a boat and needs a place to stay. ... In their final days, Willie tells her that "people don't mix races, they abandon them or pick them"(270). She returns to the island of her family, but as a final inadvertent act to prove her ignorance of self, she refers to the help as "the mulatto" and "Mary" and proceeds to abandon her elderly relatives to return to Paris with a seal-skin coat. ...
One of the most noted turning points in American History is the Civil Rights Movement. Almost every aspect of this country today, would not be the same if it was not for the African American leaders that stood up in their communities during the mid 1900's and preached words of a United States that w...
