Modernism

The Harlem Renaissance talks about how African Americans have more rights in Europe than in the United States. During World War One there were a lot of black soldiers who went to Europe and saw that blacks had more rights and more freedom in Europe than in the United States. When the soldiers came back to America they became creative, they became poets, and Jazz and the Blues also came into place. African Americans became more freely in America when they came back from Europe.

2. Read the story that coresponds to the topic you chose. Chose a topic according to your interests, not the length of the story. Choosing a story because of its length is not the wisest way to approach this assignment. Disillusionment Soldier's Home by Earnest Hemmingway The Harlem Renaissance Sweat or The Gilded Six-Bits by Zora Neale Hurston can be found here. The Jazz Age Choose a story by F. Scott Fitzgerald here. Phychoanalysis The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber



When you are through reading, you should type a two-paragraph response to the story you read, and then provide another two paragraphs in which you analyize the topic you chose and how it is represented in the story. You need to be sure to provide quotes from the story to support what you claim.

Delia Jones is a washwoman who washes people clothes for a living.Her husband Skyes,whose she married to for 15 years is an abusive and lowdown man.Delia has bad health and her husband likes to scare her a lot.For 15 years she's had to put forth effect to save her marriage.Her husband don't care anything about her, the only thing he cares about is the money.At the same time he hates the fact that Delia washes white folks clothes.Ah done promised Gawd and a couple of other men, Ah aint gointer have it in mah house.He promised God that he wouldn't have anything to do with white people in his house and outside of his house.The reason how this story relates to Modernism,back in those days whites and blacks couldn't get along.People may think that whites and blacks could get along,they really couldn't.Sometimes whites and blacks could get along,but most of the time they couldn't.Don't think because white people would pay Delia to wash their clothes,that they liked her.

Richard Corey is a poem about a gettleman who was rich and everybody thought that, because he was rich that he was happy. Instead of people getting to know him they judged him and he was not this happy person that everyone thought. He was a depressed person who needed help, but instead of getting help he committed suicide. Whatever he was going through, he was trying to get away from it rather than getting help. In fine, we thought that he was everything, the people judge Richard Corey because he was rich and they thought he had it all. And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,Went home and put a bullet through his head. What they thought they saw in Corey was not him at all. Just because he was rich and had everything he wanted,money did not make him happy.He was sad and depressed.Modernism is proven to everyone what you saw, may not be what you get. Do not judge something by what you see on the outside, go by what you see inside.

Mending Wall is about two neigbours and a wall. One neigbour wonders why the wall is up and the other one thinks that Good fences make good neighbours. Every spring is the only timethat they get together and fix the wall. Over the course of the year nature and winter are the cause of the wall breaking, as well as hunters and their game. The writer doesn't think that the wall should be up because both neighbours had trees and trees can't cross over onto a neighbours lawn. Modernism is based on proving that the American Dream isn't real like everyone thinks it is. The writer thinks it's stupid because the neighbour wants the wall up because his father told him that Good fences make good neighbours.

A Dream Deferred is saying that every dream someone has does not always come true. Just no matter how much you may want a dream to come true, doesn't mean that it will. Or does it explode This quote is saying that you dream over and over about what you want to happen, but in reality, your dream is just a dream. Some dreams do come true, but other are more like people wishes. Does it stink like rotten meat This quote is asking, when someone dream, is that just or dream or can it actual happened. Not all dreams are real, but who knows, maybe they can come true. The American Dream was suppose to be this big dream, but instead of a dream it was just a wish.

The Negro Speaks of Rivers the poem talks about his ancestors in a possitive way than negative.He is talking about how his ancestors were the first people, how his ancestors I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.made house to sleep in. He is showing the readers that for awhile Africans has made history all over.My soul has grown deep like the rivers. In this quots he is saying that his people have had to suffer since ancient times.Once Africans were kings,queens, and paraohs.Things started to change because they became slaves themselves. Modernism was not always about a dream not coming true or being negative,because there was still good in Modernism.Jazz, The Blues, African American Poets, all these things began to come into place. People started to change their thoughts on the way things were going.

Incident this poem talks about how he thought going to Baltimore would be better than where he was.Up North they were not as racist like they were in the south.Once riding in old Baltimore, Heart-filled, head-filled with glee.Once he got there he saw that it was the same like it was in the south,And so I smiled, but he poked out His tongue, and called me, Nigger. A white boy no bigger than the writer called him a nigger because of what he was taught.The writer saw that it did not matter where you went,there was still racists people every where.Just because it is worse in one place,does not mean it not better in another place.

Realism

1. Read "A Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. You should be able to indentify the following in this story:

a. details that specifically explain a characters actions, or detailed descriptions of a setting
b. a social issue that Chopin wants to solve

Write a paragraph respone to a and b in which you explain how this story includes these aspects of realism. Each paragraph should have some direct evidence from "A Story of an Hour".
"When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease-- of joy that kills". The women was happy because she thought her husband was dead. Back in those days women had no rights like they do now. Due to the fact she was happy about her husband death, it came back to haught her in the end.

She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life.Before when her husband was dead, she couldn't see the outside life. Now he's dead she can see anything she wants without him on her case about it.

2. Read "The Battle with Mr Covey" by Frederick Douglass. Follow the same directions for #1. Go further on this one to explain what you think Douglass' purpose was for writing this. Your response should be three paragraphs.
The main character in the story was a sixteen-year-old slave who was being mistreated by his master, Mr. Covey.The slave gets tired of his master whipping him so he goes to Master Thomas for protection from Mr. Covey. Master Thomas didn't help the slave,the slave had to learn how to fight Master Covey own his own.

It was for a long time a matter of surprise to me why Mr. Covey did not immediately have me taken by the constable to the whipping- post, and there regularly whipped for the crime of raising my hand against a white man in defence of myself. And the only explanation I can now think of does not entirely satisfy me; but such as it is, I will give it. Mr. Covey enjoyed the most unbounded reputation for being a first- rate overseer and Negro- breaker. It was of considerable importance to him. That reputation was at stake; and had he sent me- - a boy of sixteen years old- - to the whipping- post, his reputation would have been lost; so, to save his reputation, he suffered me to go unpunished.
Mr.Covey had a reputation of being the best master of keeping his slaves in check,but if had of took his slave to the sheriff office everybody would think that he was weak,that he couldn't handle his slaves.That's why he didn't take him to the office.

To show other people how slavery really was back in those days.Who ever reads this to know that slavery was wrong and that it should have never started.He felt that by writing about the horrible conditions that slaves had to work in would be enough to get people to start thinking about having slavery abolished.



3. Provide a modern example of realism (Boyz in tha Hood, and Menace II Society, for that matter are off-limits). This can be music, a movie, a television show, a book, or whatever you may choose. You need to explain how it is realism, and provide an example from your choice (a lyric, description of a scene, quote, etc.)
[Verse 1] I'm supposed to be the soldier who never blows his composure Even though I hold the weight of the whole world on my shoulders I am never supposed to show it, my crew ain't supposed to know it Even if it means goin' toe to toe with a Benzino it don't matter I'd never drag them in battles that I can handle unless I absolutely have to I'm supposed to set an example I need to be the leader, my crew looks for me to guide 'em If some shit ever just pop off, I'm supposed to be beside 'em That Ja shit I tried to squash it, it was too late to stop it There's a certain line you just don't cross and he crossed it I heard him say Hailie's name on a song and I just lost it It was crazy, this shit be way beyond some Jay-z and Nas shit And even though the battle was won, I feel like we lost it I spent too much energy on it, honestly I'm exhausted And I'm so caught in it I almost feel I'm the one who caused it This ain't what I'm in hip-hop for, it's not why I got in it That was never my object for someone to get killed Why would I wanna destroy something I help build It wasn't my intentions, my intentions was good I went through my whole career without ever mentionin' Suge Now it's just out of respect for not runnin' my mouth And talkin' about something that I knew nothing about Plus Dre told me stay out, this just wasn't my beef So I did, I just fell back, watched and gritted my teeth While he's all over t.v. down talkin' a man who literally saved my life Like fuck it i understand this is business And this shit just isn't none of my business But still knowin' this shit could pop off at any minute cuz [Chorus] [Verse 2] There used to be a time when you could just say a rhyme And wouldn't have to worry about one of your people dyin' But now it's elevated cuz once you put someone's kids in it The shit gets escalated, it ain't just words no more is it? It's a different ball game, callin' names and you ain't just rappin' We actually tried to stop the 50 and Ja beef from happenin' Me and Dre had sat with him, kicked it and had a chat with him And asked him not to start it he wasn't gonna go after him Until Ja started yappin' in magazines how we stabbed him Fuck it 50 smash 'em, mash 'em and let him have it Meanwhile my attention is pullin' in other directions Some receptionist at The Source who answers phones at his desk Has an erection for me and thinks that I'll be his ressurection Tries to blow the dust off his mic and make a new record But now he's fucked the game up cuz one of the ways I came up Was through that publication the same one that made me famous Now the owner of it has got a grudge against me for nothin' Well fuck it, that motherfucker can get it too, fuck him then But I'm so busy being pissed off I don't stop to think That we just inherited 50's beef with Murder Inc. And he's inherited mine which is fine ain't like either of us mind We still have soldiers that's on the front line That's willing to die for us as soon as we give the orders Never to extort us, strictly to show they support us We'll maybe shout 'em out in a rap or up in a chorus To show them we love 'em back and let 'em know how important it is To have Runyan Avenue, soldiers up in our corners Their loyalty to us is worth more than any award is But I ain't tryna have none of my people hurt and murdered It ain't worth it, I can't think of a perfecter way to word it Then to just say that I love ya'll too much to see the verdict I'll walk away from it all before I let it go any further But don't get it twisted, it's not a plea that I'm coppin' I'm just willin' to be the bigger man If ya'll can quit poppin' off at your jaws with the knockin' Cuz frankly I'm sick of talkin' I'm not gonna let someone elses coffin rest on my conscience cuz
This song talks about life and how you shouldn't cross anyone because there will be consequences behind it. No matter what you do to get back at somebody, never put anyone kids involved.With me, my kids see or be involved with some mess that they shouldn't, I'm going to make surre that person pays. My kids are my life and no one is going to take them away from me with out death being involved.