The book Colors of the Mountain by Da Chen is about the his experience in China during and after the Cultural Revolution. Chen walks us through what it was like to be a child during the Cultural Revolution and how it felt to be under the rule of Chairman Mao. His accounts are each shocking and strike a chord with the audience. Not only does he talk about Mao’s reign‚ but he discusses life after his death‚ and his own pursuit of education. Three of the Cultural Universals I found in this book were
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Realism and Local Color The intent of local color writing was to show the culture and uniqueness of specific regions. Writers who wrote using local color were‚ in most cases‚ connected to the region they were writing about. Mark Twain‚ who is commonly known as being one of the greatest American writers‚ if not the greatest‚ used copious amounts of local color in his stories. In Mark Twain’s Life on the Mississippi he uses local color that gives the reader a better sense of what he experienced
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I really enjoyed reading each of the poems in different voices‚ personally‚ I chose voices of a famous actress and or actors causing for a good laugh as well. For Sonnet in Primary Colors‚ I use a Spanish accent‚ as Fredia was a Mexican artist‚ it is not as beautiful as she was but it was very fun. As a Spanish woman‚ I was telling the story of a beautiful young Mexican artist. The story of fatal events‚ she became a survivor‚ a mother‚ a lover and a voice. Emily Dickinson’s I’m Nobody! Who are you
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showcased in a variety of ways. One kind of symbolism in particular is that of using colors in the descriptions of characters‚ places‚ objects‚ etc. to convey a characterization of said object. Certain colors are used repetitively to emphasize a particular idea‚ associated with various parties all throughout the novel. To begin‚ one of the more prominent colors used in references to a time or idea is the color white. When Nick first visits Daisy and Tom‚ Daisy explains how she knew Jordan Baker
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Life on the Color Line Life on the Color Line is a memoir by Gregory Howard Williams talking about his life and what it was like to grow up in Muncie‚ Indiana as a white colored boy. It starts off in Virginia where the Williams family owns and lives in an Open House Cafe for all the war soldiers and veterans black and white alike. Since they were “on the color line” of Virginia bordering between white and black neighborhoods‚ Greg’s father Buster was able to house both colors in the bar and keep
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Color-blind Racism As I waited in line at a grocery store I noticed that the wait was unbearably long. It’s the first of the month a man snickered to me‚ confused I asked him what do you mean? He replied with people receive their welfare checks today‚ I know you are not one of them. I told him you never know what someone is going through or what their financial situation is so you can’t pass judgement. After I said that he told me to look around and see what type of people I see. I continued to
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ability to see colors‚ feel love‚ and choose a family to live somewhere artificial would be giving away a part of me. No‚ it is not worth giving up choices to live in a perfect world. Color‚ love‚ and choosing your own family would be worth nothing to give it up for a perfect world. First of all‚ giving up the ability to see the colors would be something that I would never do. “‘ Why can’t everyone see them? Why did colors disappear?’” ( Lowry 120) This quote shows that people want colors‚ but to be
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Scarlet Letter-Colors Throughout the novel‚ “The Scarlet Letter‚” Nathaniel Hawthorne illustrates the themes with various dramatic colors. Of the array are the colors green and gold‚ where green symbolizes different aspects of nature such as tranquility‚ security‚ and gloominess‚ whereas gold represents all that pertains to luxuriance‚ serenity and goodness. In certain chapters‚ it seems as if one color is codependent with the other. The implication of the color green was most
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Background Information: Intro: Drawing the Color Line shows the development of racism in our country and how our society has lowered people of a different race other than caucasian to be the "have-not’s" of society. Background Information: Sometimes it is noted that‚ even before 1600‚ when the slave trade had just begun‚ before Africans were stamped by it—literally and symbolically—the color black was distasteful. In England‚ before 1600‚ it meant‚ according to the Oxford English Dictionary:
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The Color of Water: A Black Man ’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride Discussion questions Discuss Ruth McBride ’s refusal to reveal her past and how that influenced her children ’s sense of themselves and their place in the world. Why was she reluctant to tell her children about her background? How has your knowledge—or lack thereof—about your family background shaped your own self-image? Do you get a sense of life under the old Jewish traditions? How does that compare to the
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