{"id":986,"date":"2022-12-12T12:34:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T17:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-fall-22-c-perry\/?p=986"},"modified":"2022-12-12T12:34:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T17:34:59","slug":"dunbar-nelson-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-fall-22-c-perry\/2022\/12\/12\/dunbar-nelson-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dunbar-Nelson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The moral criticism in the story \u201cMine Eyes Have Seen\u201d by Alice Dunbar-Nelson is both corrupting to citizens and it also shows morals. As Plato said \u201chold the mirror up to nature\u201d depicting the lowest strata of human behavior because there are three brothers and sisters that only have each other. Dan the oldest and he is cripple, Lucy and Chris the youngest. Chris got drafted to join the army but he doesn\u2019t want to go because of how this country treated his family. His father was murdered and his dead didn\u2019t get no justice and his mother died right after. They were living in a nice home but the whites people drove them out of there like dogs because they are a black family.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the play the story shows that even though the family experiences in this country weren&#8217;t all great Dan wants his brother Chris to go to the army and serve his country. They have each other to help out one and another and support each other. Chris don\u2019t want to go but in the end he does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The moral criticism in the story \u201cMine Eyes Have Seen\u201d by Alice Dunbar-Nelson is both corrupting to citizens and it also shows morals. As Plato said \u201chold the mirror up to nature\u201d depicting the lowest strata of human behavior because there are three brothers and sisters that only have each other. Dan the oldest and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-fall-22-c-perry\/2022\/12\/12\/dunbar-nelson-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dunbar-Nelson<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6091,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dunbar-nelson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-fall-22-c-perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-fall-22-c-perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-fall-22-c-perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-fall-22-c-perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6091"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-fall-22-c-perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-fall-22-c-perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-fall-22-c-perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions\/987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-fall-22-c-perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-fall-22-c-perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-fall-22-c-perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}