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.