Carizma A

I feel like the the story in the “interior” is the lesson that, the ability to change outcomes with choices and actions that may seems little to stress about can have big conclusions in the future. From countering the location of the trip, like the grandma did in the story, or the making it known that the grandmother recognized the misfit. These actions all determine they’re faith, just like you making choices in your everyday life.

In the time referred in this story “The Story of an Hour” and the poem “The Wife”, the 19th century, women where more seen as property and house maids rather than someone cherish and hold. It is apparent in both and story and poem they show the thought process and being a women during those time, and having a husband. In the poem the “The Wife” I interrupt it as, although a wife has her own life and accomplishments they will always been overlooked and seen as something little, especially without a husband. However, when I comes to men or husbands wives are seen as accessories and shall just be there, not because can do more, only to up value him in a way. Wives rarely have a say, and only really do for and serve their husbands. Relative to “The Story of an Hour”, Louis Mallard thought her husband was dead after bad accident at work. After her “grieving” process she sought opportunity that she thought she could’ve never done before his supposed “death”, once she found out he was very much alive, her heart condition took her life, and she died with the unfulfilled dream that was to be without a husband and have a world of other opportunities.

I feel like literature this quote embodies the story “The Lesson” by Toni Cade because though these are words on paper, the words that are said and the way they are express is much more than a description. Its giving preceptive, it shows freedom of speech. The words used in the story gives much context on the tone, setting and what’s happening, however the perceptive that is give through the character we as reading are in the minds of, has been experience by many people while growing up. the feeling of other black being to “uppity” or “white speaking” / acting for their own good.  I personal have gone through this because I spoke very “proper” around my black family and friends, but I’ve also experience black people  feel “too good” to be around other black people and putting them down because they don’t pay the same amount of taxes. This piece of literature gives isn’t only a writing described by words. Its a story given with preceptives which can be related to many real experiences.

I have connected to the narrator in “Salvation” because it reminds me of times in life where I was peer pressured into doing things I never really wanted to do. Most of the time however, I wouldn’t actually fall through with the ideas people try to make me do, usually because I never felt the need or want to. It reminds me of how Langston in the church was sitting there waiting to be saved and have sight of Jesus while while everyone were trying their best to make him feel, and be “saved” by Him. Their have been times in my life where I was trying to stay on track and I was taking steps in your future, or even waiting for come in my life to happen then there would be distraction or people telling to take a chance or, leap of faith, and I would move because I never saw the prize in it. I have in a way connected to the story “Araby” when I first got into my first real relationship. In the mist of everything I was in a dark place in life due to having not much of a social life and many stressors from school and worrying about my future in general, so much so at one point the only thing that brought life back into me was my relationship. Spending day in and day out together with no light without my partner. It reminds me of when the boy in this story, seen everything and everyone as dark, gloomy, and shady. But once describing this girl in story he adored, she was this sense of happiness, beauty, and light, in the dark place he once was.

I feel we were given this reading for us all to internalize and think about what makes an identity. In this reading we are to think about, what event can happen that will change preceptive, settings, and people? In this book, “The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World”, we quickly realized the impacted of a mystery and unexplainable event, shine beauty and life into a village of people. While building a identity for this unknown, dead yet, handsome man, this village soon builds a identity for themselves through them being captivated by this stranger later named Esteban. They come together to send him away the right way with a funeral. They built an identity for this man, even gather other to be as his family and relative for his send off. Once given to the sea again by the people in the village and neighbors, the villagers once with no purpose or bustling work, decided to work on their own village and make it more vibrate and welcome to people like Esteban whom they adore. Both the people in these villages and Esteban gave each other something that matters in life and death, which is identity. Overall, I feel this book moving and gives me a lot of food for thought.