Nanny does not want Janie to have to live a hard life like she did. ... "you told me Ah mus gointer love him, and, and Ah don't. Maybe if somebody was to tell me how, Ah could do it" (Hurston 23). ... But Ah"m uh woman every inch of me, and Ah know it. ... Talkin" bout me lookin" old! ...
The moon glows like phosphorous on vagrant waters. ... Oh the black cross of a ship. ... I see myself forgotten like those old anchors. ... As soon as the night comes Neruda says "night comes and starts to sing to me". ... The biggest stars look at me with your eyes. ...
Not lost as if my only way of survival was hunting deranged bear or self-cannibalization, but lost like I knew the way but I couldn't find it as if something wouldn't let me. As I came off the road on to the bank of this river I saw a boy in black, with a head of white playing perfectly a violin of brown. ... We frolicked like lambs and ran like bulls through the city. ... Opportunity was calling me. ... My bags sat beside me. ...
Why did God do this to me. ... But you know me I hate everything. ... I have feelings, but do I have a heart that's not black and full of animosity?" ... Why did God just want me to be in complete misery?" ... I plan to live in a big black hole. ...
She might be pretty but anger made her looking like a bitch. Some people say that dreams are Black & White and have no colors. ... Then why would anyone like to be in love. ... Amazingly she just like that, I had pictured her about. ... I felt like I am dead and can't breathe. ...
The bright midday sun, casts long black shadows under the cars, and this along with a different style of muted trumpets makes the procession look almost like a funeral. The long black cars used, and also the number seemingly endless current of cars from the bottom of the shot highlights the funeral procession theme. ... She replies "you don't love me, you want me to love you...[mimicking] I"m Charles Foster Kane, whatever you want name it and it's yours, but you gotta love me!" ... Her line "don't tell me you"re sorry" declares her inability to forgive him, underlining the futil...
Than why don't you settle down and stop acting like it" (Morrison 1996, p.121). ... What Thérèse means here is that there is a deep history that unites all black people. ... She doesn't have the black background like Son does and that is a vital role in why they arent compatable. ... For example, Jadine had an encounter with a black woman dressed in yellow. ... All of this being said, thinking about todays society makes me question whether or not two people from completely separate spheres would be able to make a relationship work or fail like Son and Jadines. ...
To make her feel like she is in fact an individual and that she was not like everyone else. ... This was especially true for black women such as Janie. ... Brother Logan Killicks, he's a good man.......You answer me when Ah speak. Don't you set dere poutin" wid me after all Ah done went through for you!" ... This book is very relevant to the course in that it shows and explains the hardships of a woman, in this case a black woman, in the real world. ...
"So you wouldn't have married me if I'd been black."" ... He expects to buy her like a man would buy a prostitute, like a man would buy a car. ... When she states, "shadow softening the harsh outlines,"" she puts the focus on the blacks in the community, and how they too have potential to make significant contributions. ... This line is symbolic because it refers to the fact that like Powther and Mamie, these two characters in Wolff's story no longer know each other. ... Petry's purpose for using character's like Link and Camillo, like Wolff's purpose, attempts...
This is another fatherly-like characteristic which Henry possesses. ... Victor thinks to himself "I did not dare return to the apartment which I inhabited, but felt impelled to hurry on, although drenched by the rain which poured from a black and comfortless sky" (44). ... The monster says to Victor "you purpose to kill me. ... "Do your duty towards me, and I will do mine towards you and the rest of mankind" reasons the monster (83). ... Henry is a friend to Victor and also a father-like figure. ...
She likes men, and she dose not like sleeping alone. ... He was running the show and the wife did not like it at all. ... She sees these black sharp rocks in the ocean and asks why these are here? She worries about the black rock for if her lord returns home he might not see the rocks and crash into them. ... She said to Aurelius if you remove every black sharp rock out in the ocean she would be his. ...
Taking this subject one step further, Hurston also throws out a question; "What would marriage be like without love?" ... Even though Killicks looks like "some ole skullhead in de graveyard" (Their Eyes Were Watching God, Pg.13) to Janie's eye she has to marry him to obey her grandmother's wish. ... He wants to find a place that he can lead black people in a white dominated world. ... Responding to Janie's expectation, Starks soon becomes the Mayor of a colored town, and starts to lead all the black people with his great leadership. ... As she puts back Tea Cake's flowe...
" (Kidd 148) In a fictional novel by Sue Monk Kidd, Lily Owens is a white young female that is living with black women during time of racial oppression, who has ran away from home, and also a miscreant. ... The feelings rose up in me like a column of wind, but when it got to my mouth, it had no voice, now words. ... "The one that would let me know I was loved." ... "You can hate me all you want, but she's the one who left you." ... Lily Owens yearns for her mother's presence and femininity so she tries to know what Deborah had been like. ...
A black car rumbled towards me and came to an abrupt stop. ... She kissed me and I kissed her back. ... It feels like we are floating on clouds above the moon and the stars. ... It felt like I had butterflies. ... We seem like a married couple in Heaven. ...
The story pushes me to be annoyed with Joyce, and genuinely like Anna. ... Because of this evidence in the text, it is obvious that this author wants me not to like Joyce, and feel compassion towards Anna. ... On the other hand, Anna looks like a saint compared to Joyce. ... She loved her son so much that when he died she wanted to go says, "Before I moved to wash his body, I poked my finger in his mouth, deep in a pool of black blood. ... This is important when discussing the question of how Power wants me to respond to the characters, plot, etc. ...
The moon also plays a part in the imagery of dark and light values which encompass the story and is analogous to the racial conflict between black and white. These black and white images can bee seen all over from the glow of the cane fire to the "Glaring search lights" (Toomer, 66) of the lynch mob. Even the white moon battles against the black clouds in an effort to dominate. ... Unsuccessful, Bob jabs a verbal assault, "Fight like a man Tom Burwell an' I'll lick y'" (Toomer 65). Bob swings again and misses, this time coming back with a sharp racial slur, "Get off me you godam...
Uncle's hands were seamed with the black powder, beyond the power of any washing to get out... "Feel it Oliver," he would say, thrusting a bar at me. "Nothing in the world feels like sintered tungsten"" (Pg. 9) Oliver W. ... I especially liked crawling into the triangular cupboard under the stairs...... Oliver Sacks makes it feel like the house has been shut down, and deserted, leaving it empty and lonely. ...
The first thing that shocked me was the bitter sweaty smell that crawled up my nose like a bug. ... Like the old weight room. ... Our team colors were green, black, and white. ... I take every moment with me that I remember and make it positive for myself and future. ... The adrenalin rush it self gets me ready for the game. ...
I am going to examine the most important relationship to me - Miranda and Prospero. ... Ariel: Do you love me master? ... Ariel is like Prospero's slave and is very determined to be free. ... In the Shakespearean times most people in England were scared of black people and called them uncivilised and evil. ... I am your wife, if you will marry me; If not, I"ll die your maid. ...
Brabantio tried to find a suitor for his daughter like any father of the time but she rejected them all. Falling for the Moor General with his death defying tales of bravado and woe ( and that sexy charisma most black men have). ... To you I am bound for life and education My life and education both do learn me. ... Here l kneel : If e"er my will did trespass "gainst his love, Either in discourse of thought or actual deed, Or that mine eyes, mine ears, or any sense delighted them upon any other form ; or that I do not yet, and ever did, and ever will ( though he did shak...
He recounts the memory like this: "Gal liked me from that hour. ... The thing makes me smile! A purty gal in love with a han'some man like Devil-Bug! She used to say she loved me cause I did'nt deceive my looks! For one year, me and that gal was man an' wife!"" ...
The film shows how racism can be subtle or in your face, and how this way of thinking can infiltrate and spread like a poison. ... He also witnessed his brother murder two black men in front of him. ... Derek takes the whole, "It's not my problem, what do you expect me to do about it?... Sweeny is also black. ... So I picked a guy I thought you'd like. ...
Nanny Crawford, believes that, "black women were the mules of the world", and she does not want Janie to be a mule. ... "Maybe if somebody was to tell me how, Ah could do it" (Hurston 23). ... He comments, "Mah fust wife never bothered me "bout choppin" no wood nohow. ... Jody wants Janie to act like the wife of an important man. ... "Talkin" "bout me lookin" old! ...
"And to give me a little scarlet bud, that was dying of frost, to wear" (801). ... "When I saw your corpse in your coffin, I flung back your flower to you; it was all of yours I ever had; you may keep it, and-keep from me" (801). ... She is asking why God isn't pursuing grander things like the stars and planets, but she also asks why he isn't concerned with the starving or the dying. ... This is like saying that the purpose women have had and what they have done so far no longer matters. ... By women finally earning this change, it was a step closer towards changes in other aspects o...
He originally observes her, as if she were his finest specimen, like a butterfly. ... I will not give in.much like a butterfly before it's death. ... This introduces the theme of the stunted self, endorsing the idea that Clegg is a child, as he is unaware and has a narrow - minded view of the world, only seeing black and white. His diminutive character results in him having an absurd life, as he has no control, much like a child, where things just happen. ... Clegg's part clearly establishes his love for Miranda - Please marry me, I wont ask anything, anything of you, except to be my...
