The Color Of My Words Book Review

The book Black Like Me was written by a man who did the unthinkable in 1959. John Howard Griffin purposely altered the pigment in his skin to darken. He had transformed himself into a black man! Within the text, he describes his disturbing encounters with the inevitable traveling deep into the South. From New Orleans, Louisiana to Mobile, Alabama he journeyed through masses of racism but also discovered a newfound respect and kindness given by his fellow Negroes.

In literature, color sets the stage for emotion. Although often overlooked, the symbolism associated with color represents the other characters or moods of the story. A story by Karen Russell, “Haunting Olivia” tells the tale of two brothers, Timothy and Wallow, looking for the body of their younger sister, Olivia, who met her death at sea. From marina misbehavior to Glow Worm Grotto, their journey is flooded with colors that represent their circumstances. Symbolism with color fills the story, and the author’s particular use of pink goggles, cerulean eyes and blue fish showcases the boys’ feelings towards their sister, as well as aspects of Olivia herself.

After reading Chapter 9 “Learning about Gender Diversity and Fairness” and searching through many anti-bias children’s books I decided to go with “My Shadow is Pink” by Scott Stuart. This book touches on what the child may be feeling, when knowing their different from their siblings or even classmates and the struggles they go through. In the book, like in society today there are stereotyped gender roles, brought to children at a young age. “As children learn to recognize unfairness in gender stereotyping, teasing, and rejection (or any other kind of hurtful attitudes related to social identities), they may be left feeling angry and helpless unless their learning is coupled with ways of changing unfair to fair.” (Derman-Sparks, 2020, p. 134).

Will I ever be able to understand the hurt and pain of living as a colored sister in America? Ntozake Shange, for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf , expresses the obstacles of colored womean living in a world that doesn’t seem to want them. Modern day America pushes them into being outcast and feeling less than whole. Through short poems filled with rich details, Ntozake Shange brilliantly describes the situation of seven colored girls’ struggles with loneliness, oppression, and sexism in everyday life through short poems filled with rich details. The poems are filled with different topics that range from interactions with men in large cities, the myriad threats of domestic abuse, struggles with identity, cruelty, and indifference in black culture.

My book is Heaven is Paved with Oreos, By Catherine Gilbert Murdock. Summary:         Sara Zorn is an average 14-year-old girl. She’s smart, funny, awkward, shy. Sara has a crush on her best guy-friend, Curtis Schwenk, but doesn’t realize it, saying she isn’t a “boy-liker”.

In discussing Black English, John McWhorter talks about the theories of the origin of the language. McWhorter talks about how people have made claims that Black English is related and comes from African languages. He also tells how their research on this subject is unreliable and “sketchy.” These people making these claims are outside of linguistics, meaning they practice things such as education and speech pathology. People like Dr. Smith, a teacher at a medical college, suggested that Black English is a mixture of African languages with English, where these African languages have altered English into a new language.

In the book, Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin was about a man who went on a journey to experience discrimination and racism first hand. I believe just because he changed his skin color for only 6 weeks he did truly experience racism first hand. Now most people’s realization of racism and discrimination from back in the 1800’s with slavery and blacks being used and sold like tools. John Griffin experience someone being lynched to death, white people taking all the good jobs and gave the Negros little to no jobs to work at, and, Negroes weren’t aloud to have or use the same things that whites got to 2 U.S. Code § 1311- states that anyone of any race has the right to be employed, and the civil rights act which means anyone of any race has the same rights. In the book, Griffin was looking for three days

I presented a book report in front of my English 3 class and educated the audience about Robert Penn Warren's life and career as a writer, as well give my opinion on the book All the King's Men: one of Warrens most popular. I spoke clearly, used my hands, and gave my facts about the author and book. I learned how calm down and talk in front of the class with confidence. I used creative thinking by presenting with my hands and using body language. My power point was appealing to the eye and was detailed with facts.

Great Gatsby Essay Authors use colors in their writings to allow the reader to feel real emotions, instead of just reading words on a page. Colors are used to associate feelings with characters, or to better describe moods since the reader can personally relate to them. The color symbolism is used in every chapter by Fitzgerald and is important to fully understand the context of the story. The colors help give the reader a connection to the book. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, the colors blue, green, and red are symbols which have hidden meaning and add emotion to the story to help describe the characters in greater detail.

The Reconstruction Era was a period of ‘repair’ and progression of African-Americans, throughout the North and South. African American figureheads of the Reconstruction Era racial uplifts focused heavily on education and practical knowledge, while Hurston offered a different perspective. Although Zora Neale Hurston is now a ‘literary genius,’ her contemporaries criticized her, saying she was hindering the advancement of Blacks. Her literature described by Richard Wright had “no theme, no message, no thought. ”(PBS 1).

They say don’t judge a book by its cover, yet everyday people are judged just based on skin color, gender or anything else that sets them apart. Walker’s pulitzer prize winning novel “The Color Purple” talks about the struggles of an African American woman, Celie, and the journey she goes through in order to overcome the barriers of sexism to become a stronger woman and discover her independence. Similarly, “In Love and Trouble: Everyday Use” - also written by Walker - goes into a story about an African American woman, Dee, and her struggles with sibling rivalry, racial identity, and racism during a chaotic period of history. Through narrator point of view, symbolism, setting, and imagery, Walker illustrates the prominence of discrimination

How well can a director put a book into action as a movie? After reading the book The Color Purple by Alice Walker and watching the movie The Color Purple directed by Steven Spielberg, I was given both sides of the story written and the screen write. Contrasting the two together personally is quite tricky because both the book and the movie were great to take part in. However some events in the book were obviously different when watching the movie.

In Alice Walker’s The Color Purple one of the characters that really influences the main character, Celie is Mr.__. He is known as Mister to Celie and Albert to others in the story. Bell Hooks who writes a critical essay on Erotic Metaphysic” is based on Mister transforms sexually and maturing into someone respectable.

Character Color Analysis This essay will be analyzing a character in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. In a previous essay one examined their traits in the outcome of a personality test. This test gave the test taker a color in which they were told what their personality traits were based on their answers on a test. One will be doing the same from the perspective of Jay Gatsby.

After four sleepless nights, I told my mom I needed to go to the emergency room. She looked at me across the kitchen table, stared at me for a second, smiled, and then starting laughing. Prom season was right around the corner and my friends had already picked out their dresses, decided how to wear their hair and what nail color would be the perfect match. I on the other hand, was having a hard time finding the right colors to complement my very pale complexion.