LULLABY by Leslie Marmon Silko The sun had gone down but the snow in the wind gave off its own light. It came in thick tufts like new wool—washed before the weaver spins it. Ayah reached out for it like her own babies had‚ and she smiled when she remembered how she had laughed at them. She was an old woman now‚ and her life had become memories. She sat down with her back against the wide cottonwood tree‚ feeling the rough bark on her back bones; she faced east and listened to the
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Big Black Good Man‚ Scene from Jim’s POV I’ve been through this situation too many times before: There’s a white man in front of me‚ he ain’t exceptionally small‚ and he probably ain’t terribly weak. But when the white man lays his eyes on me he is shook with fear and he feels himself shrink into a mite. When he shuts his eyes briefly he has visions of me squashing him with my foot‚ and he considers pulling out a weapon. “That man could kill me with one hand”‚ he is probably thinking. I know that
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Kipling’s poem “The White Man’s Burden” was issued shortly after the Spanish-American War in 1899. It happens to be one of Kipling’s most well-known works and was published in The New York Sun as well as McClure’s Magazine. The poem was set under a theme of imperialism along with racial ideology. Kipling advises the “white men” of the United States to take up the “burden” by civilizing with the individuals from colonized areas (and/or simply non-white people). Ironically‚ this the same man from a country
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Ethnocentrism is the belief in inherent superiority of one’s own group and culture. “The White Man’s Burden” is based on white supremacy and the title itself is an example of ethnocentrism. For something to a burden of someone it will have to be a load and a load weighs people down. Kipling obviously compares the slaves to a load. Therefore‚ he states that they are lesser compared to Americans. Which means the whites are superior. Within line 8 he calls the Filipinos “Half-devil and half-child.” Due to
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Rudyard Kipling “The White Man’s Burden” Kipling’s poem was viewed in the same way as Lord Curzon‚ the viceroy of India from 1898 to 1905 CITATION Jos \l 1033 (Symes). Kipling urged the British and the Americans to “take up the white man’s burden”. Lord Curzon was concerned about the British position in the world‚ urging economic investment and warned of the need to fortify India’s borders against Russia. Curzon worried that the British would be worn down by resistance to the raj and that‚ confronted
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The White Man’s True Burden One common theme between “The White Man’s Burden”‚ Heart of Darkness‚ Apocalypse Now‚ and The Man who would be King is conquering a “lesser” people. Now each story presents this theme a different way‚ but it all circles back to this common element. In post colonial theory we learned about England deciding that it had the “God given right” to conquer/improve other civilization and cultures and in each of these stories this idea is shown. Each native community is
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“The White Man”. And‚ literally anybody else of another race at the time. However‚ racial tensions were quite particularly tense between Whites and Blacks. For the not so first time‚ Europeans were expunging resources out of Africa. And using the natives to do it for them. And an insightful look into the tensions of the time can be observed in two literary works from the time period‚ “White Man’s Burden” by Rudyard Kipling. And‚ alternatively‚ “Black Man’s Burden” by Edward Morel. The White Man’s
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Imperialism: "The White Man’s Burden" and the "The Real White Man’s Burden" Well in order to show how imperialism was used in the nature of those two poems‚ I have to define it. Imperialism is the extension of sovereignty or control by one people or state over another. The objective is the exploitation of the controlled people or state. Imperialism has four major components: economic‚ military (strategic)‚ political‚ and humanitarian. Imperialist powers are not bound to follow the laws‚ international
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Europeans going in and taking over these colonies‚ and ultimately defends their doing. In the title‚ a White Man’s Burden refers the the duty that Kipling believes the Europeans have to go into various non-european nations and take control and civilize them to make them more like westerners. It implies that they themselves are not sophisticated or smart enough to function on their own‚ and the white people must teach them how to be more civilized. In the first paragraph‚ Kipling urges European families
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references in many writings and screenplays. In “The White Man’s Burden” by Richard Kipling‚ the white man is often portrayed as the stranger. “The hate of those ye guard” (Kipling 36)‚ Rudyard Kipling states as he conveys how white men are only here to “Reep his old reward” (Kipling 34). There are many instances in the poem that prove how the “white man” has been extremely controlling and only take as they please. In many or most writings‚ the white man is the stranger. For example‚ In Crocodile Dundee
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