Clareese is segregated from others because of the way she looks‚ her personality‚ and her lack of money. She is not very outgoing or pretty and is described as “quiet‚ nervous‚ skinny in all the wrong places‚ and completely cross-eyed” (Packer 37). The way that the speaker describes Clareese makes her a perfect target for Deacon McCredie. He chooses Clareese because she is in a different group that is lower than he is. Due to the segregation within the church Clareese is beneath Deacon
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Imaginative Conversation Why does ZZ Packer write her essay with mostly conversing through language? In the short story Drinking Coffee Elsewhere‚ ZZ Packer consistently uses the art of conversation. She uses this type of language throughout her short story while either a group of people are talking or just man to man conversations. First off this short story is about an African American woman named Dina and she just arrived at orientation at the University Yale. In class she quickly meets
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Z.Z. Packer adds to this list of more commonly used similarities between birds and humans by endowing the birds in her short story‚ “The Ant of the Self”‚ with the gift of speech. By doing so‚ Z.Z. Packer highlights her use of a squawking assortment of colorful African birds as a symbol for Spurgeon. The birds serve as a catalyst for the story‚ giving rise to Spurgeon’s and his father’s trip to the Million Man March. As the duo makes their way from Jasper‚ Indiana to Washington‚ D.C.‚ Packer introduces
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Reading the story Doris Is Coming made me believe in the story. The realism of it made me realize that even though I don’t believe everything they were stating. I was convinced that the last day on this earth was here‚ that day in that church. The conversations they were having with one another made more since to me. The other story was a bit harder for me to fully understand the scenario of that story. Doris is left to make sense of this world. This story made a very good point from the past history
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Response to a short story In this short story by ZZ Packer “Brownies” there are two main characters. They are Arnetta and Laurel also known as “Snot”. Racism plays a huge role in this short story. The racial prejudice and hostility shown in the story appears to be the product of historical circumstances combined with the current reality of racial segregation. This short story compares two stories that have a similar meaning which is‚ one does not know where another is coming from at first glance
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Racism in Drinking Coffee Elsewhere In ZZ Packer’s book entitled Drinking Coffee Elsewhere‚ we get to see how African Americans cope with their different situations dealing with family‚ friendship‚ religion‚ and the pursuit of prosperity in the world. Within the short story collection there is a story named after the title‚ Drinking Coffee Elsewhere‚ where we get to see the pressures put on a young African American woman‚ Dina‚ that causes her to resort to near complete isolation of herself. Dina
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Beauty can be defined in many ways. Ethnicity shouldn’t be an obstacle that keeps someone out of the range of beauty. For example‚ the narrative of “Senior Picture Day” by Michele Serros‚ she had been mocked about her Indian nose and in “Brownies” by ZZ Packer‚ the narrative compared their hairs with the white girls from Troop 909‚ which as commercial hair. People develop negative body image as a result of European beauty standards and the effect that having only one beauty standard has on non- white population
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Exploring Inherited Racism ZZ Packer’s short story‚ “Brownies‚” demonstrates a repeated cycle of inherited racism with a possibility for change presented by Laurel and Daphne’s approach to dealing with racial struggles. The story revolves around a racial conflict between Laurel’s Brownie troop (black girls) and troop 909 (white girls)‚ where a girl from troop 909 allegedly refers to Daphne with a racial insult. The girls have dealt with racism directly through their own experiences and indirectly
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Sundays try to walk like a lady and not the slut you are so bent on becoming.” I almost felt the narrator’s pain for what she’s going through with her mother. I most definitely can relate to this story the girl is telling. “Buffalo Soldiers” by ZZ Packer was my least favorite short story. It was too
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to sell cookies and calendars to strangers when I could have been on the couch watching Power Rangers‚ being a girl scout certainly had interesting stories to remember for a very long time. However‚ none of my brownie camping stories can compare to ZZ Packer’s short story “Brownies”. The story is about an African American Brownie troop of six girls who went away to camp to find another Brownie troop was sharing the campgrounds with them. From the beginning of the trip‚one of the brownies‚ Arnetta
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