Jerry Cantave

This week’s module was very helpful because it helps me to gain some understanding more about different types of literature and poetry that I didn’t know before. To illustrate, I think writing a poem is just looking for words to do the verification, but after reading and trying to understand what poetry is, I understand and realize that poetry is an amazing art. So, I realized to write poetry, you must prepare and put yourself in a good condition to know the basics part of poetry, and the nature of poetry, the poem is often rhythmical, routinely metaphorical, and rime. Now I understand to write a good poem you should touch the soul of the reader and to engage the reader in your poetry you should have the skills, and a good vocabulary by choosing the ideal words. Also, I have learned two different types of sonnets English and Italian.

My research paper will focus on “The lesson” is a story written by Toni Cade Bambara. An African American writer, so she wrote: “The Lesson” a short story that was published in 1972 following the Civil Rights movement, during that time social inequality in the United States was colossal. “The Lesson” is set in Harlem in New York City. A group of Black children is taken to the F.A.O Schwartz Toy store by an unusual woman in the neighborhood. Throughout the short story, Sylvia is portrayed as a tough hard-shelled individual. The thesis of my essay is” Her character is at the heart of the story as she reacts to the people around her and the lesson, she learns at the toy store.” As a result, my main goal is to find a very good critical article through this second source to connect with “The Lesson” that could help me prepare a good writing final essay.

“The Story of the Hour” shows us back in the days the way society viewed women as the weak gender and marriage was very difficult for women to enjoy their life, and in the story, Mrs. Mallard was very upset because of her husband’s death. In contrast to other women who might not have the strength to move forward, after the death of her husband, she takes comfort, and we see the strength and the ability in her to pass her husband’s death. The poem “The Wife” by Emily Dickinson is connected to Mrs. Mallard’s “The Story of the Hour.” By Kate Chopin in his poem, Dickinson says that “To take the honorable work Of woman and a wife.” It means that being married is not an easy job, in another word it shows the hard work of a married woman after her husband’s death. She devotes herself to work, to take care of her needs.

In “A Good Man is Hard to Find” the author uses an egocentric character of the grandmother; the grandmother’s superficiality is somehow true for most of us who profess to be Christians. She’s paying lip service to the superficial notion of being Christians, however not treating it as seriously as the Misfit does. In addition, the grandmother’s hypocrisy, self-entitlement, and futility made that clear by a touch comparable to a bit of hard luck, also she never had a clue about life and things she pretended to care about the most. The age dynamic and social and cultural gap is perfectly investigated during the whole family’s ordeal. And the family was unequipped in every aspect to deal with the darkness of life outside their illusory place of comfort, and security. Great thing Flannery archived by making the Misfit utterly unlikeable, despite his effort to believe and portray himself as a decent man. Only someone as manipulative as the grandmother would manipulate him.

My understanding about this quotation is that Aristotle discusses thought and diction and then moves on to address epic poetry. Whereas tragedy consists of actions presented in a dramatic form, epic poetry consists of verse presented in a narrative form. Tragedy and epic poetry have many common qualities, most notably the unity of plot and similar subject matter. In addition, Oedipus’s attitude is presented on multiple occasions’ combining tragic irony with verbal irony, where Oedipus speaks to both his crimes in the same breath. engenders the predicament of whether these crimes are justifiable or not. Those who are procrustean regarding Oedipus’ crimes may insularly claim that they cannot be rationalized. However, further acknowledgment of this quandary brings forth the idea that Oedipus’ crimes of patricide and incest are justified by how his lack of phronesis is inherited, his unawareness influences his actions, and his fate is ultimately under the gods’ control. One may venture that since Oedipus’ hauteur and lack of phronesis are traits passed down in the House of Labdacus, they justify Oedipus’ crimes. This assertion is derived from the argument that Oedipus’ crimes are the result of his lack of phronesis, which is, in essence, an amalgamation of the skills, character, and experience necessary for moral and sound decision-making.

From the very beginning, what makes Oedipus ‘ actions in his quarrel with Teiresias and throughout the play so dramatically compelling, is the fact that the audience knows the outcome of the story. We know Oedipus ‘ fate even before he does, and there is no suspense about the outcome itself, instead, the audience anxiously awaits Oedipus to reveal his fate unto himself in his desperate quest to rid his city of the terrible plague, or maybe even more so, to simply discover his unfortunate tale. Oedipus is relentless in his pursuit of the truth, and his determination is commendable. There is nothing that compels him to act in this way, instead, he freely chooses, with much zeal, to initiate the chain of events that will ultimately lead to his downfall. The main dramatic irony in Oedipus the King contrasts Oedipus’s limited knowledge of his unfolding situation and how the audience is fully aware of it.

The short story “Araby” by James Joyce is about a young boy who has such an infatuation with his friend Mangan’s sister, he begins to idolize her as if she was a saint. This is when the idea of love and desire comes into play. He simply can’t stop thinking about her and sees her in a godly way. As the story begins to unfold the realization that the young boy doesn’t quite understand the concept of the illusion and the reality of Mangan’s sister The young boy realizes that his love and desire go hand in hand with the illusion and reality he has for Mangan’s sister. As well as the connection the author James Joyce brings to this short story “ Araby” represents how Joyce views these same ideas of Love, Desire, Illusion, and Reality. By the end of the short story, he realizes the bareness of everyday life. The disappointment that is Araby awakens the boy to the fact that his immature dreams have blinded him.

The story takes place in what some people might call the projects or the gusto but, in this case, it’s called the Slum by Miss Moore. Miss. Moore starts and finishes by telling them “What things cost and what their parents make and how money ain’t divided right in this country” which is already part of the lesson Miss. Moore is trying to come across. I feel that Miss. Moore kept an eye on Sylvia the most than Sugar, Junebug, Flyboy, Rosie and Mercedes because Miss. Moore wants to get the message through to Sylvia, plus Sylvia is the one who influences Sugar and the other kids. When they arrived on Fifth Avenue that was when Sylvia and Sugar realized that the society, they are surrounded by is nothing like the one they live in. To me, Sylvia might have been kind of intimidated by her surroundings on Fifth Avenue that’s why she hesitated to go into F.A.O Schwarz. “So I and Sugar turn the corner where the entrance is, but when we got there I kinda hung back” that was the line that gave me the impression. Sylvia Sugar and the rest of the kids get a taste of society on Fifth Avenue, but it was missed. Moore gives them the chance to experience it for themselves. Society is often perceived as a rich and fashionable social class depending on how you want to put it, but to the characters in the story of “The Lesson” They are naive, they are experiencing something new, and it would be understandable if they didn’t get Miss. 

Religion in the Poetry of Langston Hughes,” Mary Beth Culp addresses several long-running themes that she asserts are a significant and typical feature of the way Hughes views and presents religion. Religion was an inherent part of the black experience in Hughes’ perspective, yet Hughes himself was a seemingly a-religious man, who led to a complex and multifaceted understanding of religion as both a means of indoctrinating and anesthetizing the masses of African Americans, and a means of providing security, community, and hope to this population. in “Salvation,” this mixed quality of religion is quite clearly seen, with the young Hughes at the center of the story happily waiting for Jesus and at the same time bitterly disillusioned by his absence. Religion does provide hope, and for the characters around Hughes such as his aunt it provides an avenue for fulfilling hopes and providing connection, but ultimately Hughes sees this as a false hope built by a people willing to fool themselves if it means not facing the truth. By reading this story I realize that the black culture and social experience, have a great connection to Africa because as a Haitian I experienced religious manipulation when I was in Haiti.

In this story, the author used an overstatement to create a magical, mythical to capture our attention. He described the dead man as the main character in the story. By reading this story I can see that the small village was poor, before the dead man arrived the houses had stone courtyards with no flowers. Very little space on the island. When they found Esteban, his presence transformed them to think bigger and different. The beauty and the splendor of the dead man inspired them to change the village’s view. I do not personally think a dead could bring anything that could benefit a village, but the story makes me rethink, it ends with a great vision of the transformation of good looks. While I was reading this story, I thought they were going to keep his body or do a great burial ritual since they loved him so much. But no, they dropped him off like any dead body. However, in memory of Esteban, their houses would have wider doors higher ceilings, and stronger floors. This symbolizes the town rebuilding itself and starting new opportunities.