Who am I Without Him? The author of “So I ain’t no Good Girl”‚ Sharon Flake‚ develops the characters in a way I find realistic and original. It is told in a first person view of the main character; although‚ we don’t know her name‚ we know her boyfriend’s name‚ Raheem. He is known for his good looks and muscles. They have been together for two years now‚ but he treats her as though she is nobody. The narrator has an attitude against other girls‚ because Raheem tends to stare. When she finds him
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The Forgiving Bad Girl (Critique on So I Ain’t No Good Girl by Sharon Flake) “So I Ain’t No Good Girl “is a short story from a collection of short stories called “Who Am I without Him”‚ and “So I Ain’t No Good Girl” is about your average bad girl. The Author‚ Sharon Flake‚ writes a story about a girl who thinks she’ll be nobody without her boyfriend‚ Raheem. The narrator in “So I Ain’t No Good Girl” is a girl who thinks of herself only as a bad girl. This specific bad girl obeys her boyfriend
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Both Sojourner Truth and Maya Angelou lived in different time periods‚ but they both were conveying the same message: civil rights. They were both African American women who believed that blacks and women were treated poorly and should be treated better. They also conveyed their points with different styles of delivery. One of these styles is better than the other. Sojourner Truth had an angry tone when she gave her‚ "Ain’t I a Woman" speech. She kept pointing out what was wrong with how men treat
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I Need Him Sharon Flake tells the story of a girl who is struggling with her relationship in “So I Ain’t No Good Girl.” The narrator would do anything and everything for her boyfriend. She deals with him looking at other girls and the fights they have as a couple just to keep on being his girlfriend. You could even say she favors boys over her education. Even though Raheem‚ the narrator’s boyfriend‚ is abusive; she still stays with him. Flake provides the narrator’s emotions throughout the
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sentences‚ using a short answer/paragraph format. 1. What is the title of the film you picked? The title of the film I decided to view is the “Tribute to Sojourner Truth”. 2. Why did you pick this film over the others offered? I chose this film over all the other offered because I wanted to learn a little more about the life of Sojourner Truth. 3. What is/are the central message(s) of this documentary/fictional film? Be specific. Use examples from the film to support
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because none were treated as if one was. The slaves had to adjust as time went on because it was no longer about them it was about their work on the fields and their overseer. Although slavery was only thought to be the owning of slaves it was not‚ Sojourner Truth‚ Soloman Northup‚ and Harriet Tubman tell their life stories. If the slaves are educated they are taken into the house to work. They are called slave householders. The master makes the slaves teach the children and they make sure that they give
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White’s purpose of writing is to provide a long overdue examination of female slavery‚ ending long held myths and exemplifying the distinctive struggles that slave women faced in their day to day survival. Deborah Gray White’s book‚ Ar’n’t I a Woman? categorizes black women in the context of the two dogmas they faced in the antebellum South—the Southern feminine model of the dependent‚ physically inert female‚ and the tougher imagery of tough labor and dehumanization that was experienced daily in
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Americans was standing up and fighting back and Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth were known as the first out of so many brave people. Both Douglass and Sojourner just like many other African Americans were born into slavery and experienced many horrible treatments from their masters until they can escape themselves. D. By comparing and contrasting the life and accomplishment of the two ex-slave Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth‚ I am going to analyze their upbringing as well as families broken
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Ain’t I a Woman – Sojourner Truth I. Background of Truth’s Speech Sojourner Truth was born with the given name Isabella Van Wagenen. Truth was born into slavery in 1979 in New York. She had some siblings but never had a bonding relationship with any of them‚ for they were sold as slaves. While in slavery‚ Truth’s master prearranged a wedding to a slave named Thomas; they bore five children‚ and some were sold. Because of the New York Anti-Slavery Law of 1827‚ Truth was released from slavery
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of thoughts. In the grandmother’s mind‚ the “clouds” are preventing her from seeing the “sun” another symbol of truth and reality. ’Ain’t a cloud in the sky‚’ he remarked‚ looking up at it. ’Don’t see no sun but don’t see no cloud neither.’" Later‚ when the family encounters the Misfit‚ the sky is clear and thus there is no blindness of mind‚ but there is no sunlight which shows that truth is absent too. This symbolizes an empty state of mind for the grandmother when she is in trouble. There is no
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