Briana Brantley September 29‚ 2013 English 1101 Prof. Brown MWF 10:00 Assignment #2 of “Our Time” “Our Time is an essay in which John Edgar Wideman tries to make the reader realize that things aren’t always what people think they are. One may think they’re in a worst situation and look at someone else’s situation and realize that someone has it way worse than they do. Wideman wrote this essay in many different perspectives trying to make the reader see the all of the different emotions within
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1102 Dr. Lacrone Visions of Our Time John Wideman starts off Our Time with the story of his friend Garth on his death bed. Using extreme detail its hard not to believe you are staring him right in the face. The story of John and Robby’s mother is inspiration for willpower. Not only a smart and sophisticated woman‚ but keeps her head up during all the bad times. Also‚ never disrespects anyone. The story of their mother has to do with John and Robby because she is a key ingredient in helping
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Jamilyn Smith Lisa Dawson English 101‚ Section 20 Wideman Paper Final Paper The Cause and Effect of Life Over the years of life‚ we as individuals grow‚ learn‚ and adapt to numerous things and those are the effects of certain causes. If we were to look at where we are in life and deeply evaluated our current status‚ we could ultimately find the causes to how and who we are. John Edgar Wideman wrote a paper called “Our Time”‚ which shows the true relationship between cause and effects not
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An Autoethnographic Analysis of “Our Time” The 1960’s were a time of civil revolution for the black community. The civil rights movement was in full swing and the black community was determined to find their own identity. The antagonist to the civil rights movement was the association in the American imagination of black people with ugliness‚ danger‚ and deterioration because black life seemed to stem from the urban ghetto – the polar opposite to the “square world” of the white man. Some people
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You can do it Naysayers might say one is or should be a product of one’s environment. The story “Our Time” show otherwise. John Edger Widemen shows that just because you grow up without two parents‚ and not all of the support from two parents‚ that one can be as successful as they could want to be. Some say if one comes from money one will have money‚ grow up with nothing be nothing forever. There are 2 prime examples in the story that shows both are valid points one cane be a product of their
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Wideman’s “Our Time” John Edgar Wideman’s piece‚ “Our Time‚” is very similar to another piece we have read‚ “Our Secrets‚” by Susan Griffin. Much like “Our Secret”‚ Wideman uses his writing to demonstrate that there is more to the world than what meets the eye. In contrast to Griffin’s seemingly unrelated stories about people in the past‚ Wideman uses examples from his own family and personal experience. Wideman focuses on his brother‚ Robby‚ and how he never fully understood why Robby made the choices
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focus my attention on different essays. The first essay “Our Time” written by John Edgar Wideman where he attempts to communicate the emotion that he felt and what his brother Robby went through. In this essay‚ he focused on explaining what happened to his brother. He writes about the forces that contributed to his brother’s bad behavior that automatically lead him to do bad things and ended up in the jail for the rest of his life. Also‚ Wideman writes about how the pressures of his community and culture
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Wideman is faced with many problems as he tries to write the story of his brother. He expresses issues in both reading and writing this story. It is difficult for him to both write this piece and to “read” into the text of his brother’s life. His issue is very obvious when he states‚ “The hardest habit to break‚ since it was the habit of a lifetime‚ would be listening to myself listen to him. That habit would destroy any chance of seeing my brother on his terms; and seeing him in his terms‚ learning
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The Weird Ways of Wideman “Our Time” is an interesting story that displays many different styles of writing that not everyone is accustomed to. The author twists and turns the story many different directions throughout‚ which provides for an alluring read. The story “Our Time” by John Edgar Wideman attempts to tell the sad tale of Wideman’s brother‚ Robby. Robby is in jail at the time and Wideman is trying to piece together the parts of his younger brother’s life that landed him in prison. Throughout
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1 John Edgar Wideman’s “Our Time” is a fascinating story of his younger brother Robby and the troubles and difficulties he had growing up in the neighborhood of Homewood. Wideman puts a different aspect on this story when writing; he tells us the story from three different points of views. He does this to give us a better understanding of the characters in “Our Time.” This story is not just about his brother Robby‚ and the troubles he goes through in life. John Wideman puts so much of his own personal
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