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27 Cards in this Set
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The Adventures of Huckleberry fin
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Mark twain
• Born November 30, in village of Florida, Missouri • Grew up on Mississippi river in Hannibal Missouri • Father died when he was 12. Work to support family • Worked for brother who was a printer in Hannibal • Became a steamboat pilot-left because was going to be drafted • Went west with his brother-this started his path toward his life as a humorist, lecturer, journalist, and author. • West he wrote for Territorial Enterprise Newspaper- fashion during this time called him to get a nick name-Mark Twin meaning “two fathom deep” or “safe water” • Married Olivia Langdon-daughter of a wealthy coal dealer from Buffalo, New York. She was in a status que and this set us some of his stories like Huck Fin. • Dialect-youthful • Aunt Polly-who Huck lived with • Widow Douglas-took Huck in as her son-tried to civilize him • Miss Watson-slim old maid • Jim-Miss Watson’s big |
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Up From Slavery
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Booker T. Washington
• No one exercised more influence over race relations in US. • “Era of Booker T. Washington.” • Wanted to help African Americans enter mainstream white society peacefully and advocate an educational program of vocational training. • Mother born a slave in Hale’s Ford • Father was a white man whose identity is unknown. • Worked with step father in salt furnace. • Attended the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute –paid his way as a janitor. • Became 1st principal of what was to become the Tuskegee Institute. • Spoke at Atlanta exposition of 1895, “Atlanta Compromise” • Known as “Moses of his race” -• At Atlanta Exposition-asked to make address as representative of the Negro race • Cement the friendship of the races and bring about cooperation between them • “Cast down your bucket where you are..” –make friends of all races and help each other out • “It is at the bottom of life we much begin, and not the top” • Talking to white people in one point |
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Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others
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• Born feb 23 in MA
• Live in a majority white town-made him different in school • Educated at Fisk Univeristy in Nashville, Hardvard, Berlin, then back to Hardvard • Researched “Negro Problem” –became Activist • Editor of Naacp- steady movement toward Pan-African and socialist perspectives leading him to join US communist Party• arguing against Dubois saying having a higher education will not get them far without higher political equality • Supports schools saying if a black man is ignorant then he should vote • And how blacks should know that all white men are not hostile against them |
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The Yellow Wallpaper
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Born July 3 in Hartford Connecticut • Lived life when women were cheated unfairly • Self consciously feminist- speaking on women issues • Her father left after her birth and she spent years trying to from a relationship with him • Childhood of painful and lonely- mother didn’t show love to prevent them to later getting heart broken • Seemed to be depressed so mother and husband sent her to bed rest • Husband married best her best friend • Married her first cousin • Killed herself after learning she had cancer • Husband John is a doctor • She is sick and is sent to bed rest and locked up in a room • John doesn’t believer her • She sees a woman behind bars in the wallpaper- paper moves • Thinks woman get out during day bc she sees her outside her window • In the night she pulls off the wallpaper trying to let the women out • She is the woman in the wallpaper and at last she is free |
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Sister Carrie
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Theodore Dreiser
• Born August 17- 11th of 13 children • Her stern, distance father – not successful for providing for his family • Father served as all the failed men in his story • His mother was “the only person to ever love him” • Novels are direct reflection of his inner life as well as careful transcriptions of his experiences • Evolutional • Suffered from a nervous breakdown in first two years of 20th century • Carrie Meeber- a country girl from Qisconsin who comes to Chicago • Intro shows she is in trouble b/c of being naïve and not prepares. All she wants in material things • She is not smart • Comparing the city to a tempter(male seducer) • Omniciant narrator-see into both persons head • She is searching for happiness |
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The Sculptors funeral
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Willa Cather
• Born in Virginia –oldest child. • After graduating form college she became a journalist in Red Cloud and Lincoln • Novels reflecting a lesbian? • Loves deep relationship heter/homo in her fiction stories • a story about an artist leaving his town to follow his dream no matter what they thought • Steaven’s thinking that Havery doesn’t fit this house! Very protective of the coffin. • Maid is the only person beside Steaven that is upset because she was an outsider as well • Harvey didn’t sell out and did what he wanted to do. He was not good at men things • Gay- Steavens wants to take body with him-gay partner • Friend Jim Laird(lawyer) tells the people that he was a sellout and for us not to be. |
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Feminist Manifesto
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Mina Loy
•“Feminist Manifesto” published after death- copy sent to her friend • sexual freedom • The end of the divide between the mistress and the mother • Men and women only have sex in common • If mother is sexual-doesn’t mean not a good mom • Female opinion on sex • Should loose virginity as purity • You can be sexy and mom • Telling women to go deeper than just a slogan. Must break barriers • Superior need to be having more babies |
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Rose for Emily
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William Faulkner
• Wrote southern gothic • Wrote about childhood, families, sex, race, obsession, time, the past, his native south and modern world • His narrative voice: urgent, intense, and highly rhetorical. • Father loved to hunt and drink • He was the favorite of the sons in his mom opinion• Miss Emily Grierson • Narrator- community • Narrator style-IMMEDIARES-not in order • We knew she killed Homer but in the story the community didn’t know • Old South |
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The Leader of the Poeple
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John Steinbeck
• Best writing in California-home • His worked merged literary modernism with literary realism • Traditional rural communities, social outcasts, immigrant cultures, radical polics • Home full of books, read avidly from early age • Took time off from college to work at local mills-gain respect for farmers and factories workers • After WWII his work displayed increasing hostility to American Culture• expresses his sense that America’s heroic times are past and locates value in the story’s socially marginal character-a child, and old man and a farmhand • Little boy-Jody is trying to show his father(Carl Tiflin) and grandfather he is a man • Jody wants to kill the mice • Gets a letter from grandfather that he is coming that day to visit • Grandfather only talks about Indians and crossing the plains • He led a wagon train clear across the plains to the coast, when done, his life was done • 3rd person and 1st • Dad got irritated and yelled at grandfather telling him th |
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The Man Who was Almost a man
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Richard Wright
• First African American author of a bestseller • Born Natchez Mississippi. • Age 5 father abandoned the family • Went to Memphis- had moved 20 times • Extreme poverty- no edu beyond junior high school and from religious fundamentalism of g-ma • Joined WPA writers project-to help support authors • He published Uncle Tom’s Children • Theme- devastating effect of relentless institutionalized hatred and humiliation on the black males’ psyche was paramount in all of them • Dave-little white boy • Dialect • Dave wanted to buy a gun to show he was a man • Shoots the mule- cries- runs away • Moral- be a true man • Irony- leaves to be a man however he ran away from his problem • He is a kid-gives plenty of proof-runs from his problems • Man vs. Boy • Immaturity- thinks having a gun makes him a man. |
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Going to meet the man
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James Baldwin
• Born in Harlem- 1st of 9 children • Extreme painful relationship with his father(stepfather) • Father- David, son of a slave, committed to a vengeful God who would eventually judge white people and give them what they deserved. –meantime took it out on James • Richard Write helped him write and Baldwin liked his style followed in his footsteps • Gay • Annoyed how racism is tied to sexually-fear of the black male sexuality • Interested in black and homosexual • Only black writer to imagaine the white experience • Speak in different kinds of tones• Cop trying to have sex with wife but cant so has to think of past when –antihero • Signing bothers him bc he doesn’t think they have a right to be happy • He thinks he is helping the blacks • He arrest black girls to make them to oral on him • Only can get aroused by black women and bad treatment and makes him mad. • Moral- he learned his behavior from dad(analephis) –flashback • Had a black friend named Otis |
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The Woman Warrior; No name Woman
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maxine Hong Kingston
-born in California- chinese immigrant parents -Mother telling her daughter about her Aunt that is shunned because pregnant not by her husband |
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The Iroguois Creation story
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David Cusick
-tale of foundation of great island- NA skywoman pregnant with twins -good twin and bad twin |
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From letter to Luis de santangel regarding the first voyage
From letter to ferdinand and isabella regarding the fourth voyage |
Christopher columbus
1st how great the island are 4th change- weeping - more people are making discovers |
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Of plymouth plantation
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William bradford
-left england b/c of persecution but persecuted indians |
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A model of Christianity
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John Winthrop
-city on the hill -christians coming together |
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Sinners in the hands of an angry god
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Jonathan edwards
-consequences of sinning |
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A Narrative of the captivity and restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
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Mary Rowlandson
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Speech at Detroit
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pontiac
-met great spirt- go back to how their forefathers lives -don't let british take over |
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From a short narrative of my life
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Samson Occon
converted to Christianity taguht indians kids to read- civilized him |
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From chief logan's speech
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Logan
-british killed pregnant sis -revenge -he wants to kill whites |
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Reply to missionary Jacob cram
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red jacket
-british rewarded him with jacket for being a messenger "brother" Brother....brother -dont take their religion |
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speech of osages
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henry tecumseh
-taken by osage indians 2-3 yrs old |
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The autobiography of ben franklin
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ben franklin
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The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
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Jefferson
wanted over marker- stop going to African but force slaves to have babies |
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From the interesting Narrative life of olaudah equiana- written by himselt
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Olaudah Equiano
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Rip van Winkle
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washington irving
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