The Harlem Renaissance was an exciting time for African American’s artistic expressions. The black artists were able to captivate audiences with their style of art, music and writing. Two of the famous writers of this time were Hurston and McKay. Hurston short story: The Gilded Six-Bits and McKay’s Chapter 12 of the book, A Long Way from Home, "He Who Gets Slapped”, shows the writers take on Love, betrayal and acceptance. The authors write of these actions from two different perspectives; Hurston writes from a one on one relationship. While McKay writes from ones experiences with relationships and the affects segregation has within society. These African American writers during the Harlem Renaissance times describe the effects of Love,
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Her style is describing the characters using their dialect to set the atmosphere of the couple 's life within the community. They 're playfulness as they meet each other after a day’s work and the playful communication and the simple gesture that display their love. Hurston is opening line of the story”. "It was a Negro yard around a Negro house in a Negro settlement” (Helicon Nine, 1987, pg.51) let the reader know that they are in a black community. The dialect between the husband and wife: “Who dat chunkin ' money in mah do 'way?"(Helicon Nine, 1987, pg.52) Show the informal nature of the speaking manner in which they communicated. The betrayal comes into the story when the wife, Missy Mae, has a sexual affair with the newcomer to town and the husband, Joe, catches them within his bedroom. The description of Joe actions externally and his heartfelt feelings internally, describe the quick snappy tone of the entire story. The story goes on to show how Joe, eventually accepts the betrayal of his wife once she has a son, which his mother states the baby looks like him. This is where he starts to forgive his wife for the …show more content…
And these artists, writers, singers, and actors were very talented, they would always be labeled as the black artist. Because of segregation they will not be accepted equally with their white counterparts within the same profession. McKay’s tone in this chapter “"He Who Gets Slapped”, it narrated in a formal manner of words, showing his broad experience within a large city in the north. His choices of words are very descriptive adjectives that are arranged methodically with a monotone voice. Mckay’s narration of his superficial love of New York, with the love of writing about the community he found himself living in. He is writing about the experience of his life and how the opportunity of writing for The Liberator, able him to articulate his writing skills and literary voice for social justice (Bio.com, 2015, para 1). His love for NY, expressed the beauty of life in the city, when he stated,”I was so exalted by their monster movement that I forgot they were white” (McKay, CH12, pg. 106). His expository writing of his experience within the white artistic world left him feeling betrayed by the majority of the artist of the white world because he was seen as a black man first and critics or writer second. He descriptively uses words that the educated could understand the struggle of having white friends who do not understand the struggles
Her style is describing the characters using their dialect to set the atmosphere of the couple 's life within the community. They 're playfulness as they meet each other after a day’s work and the playful communication and the simple gesture that display their love. Hurston is opening line of the story”. "It was a Negro yard around a Negro house in a Negro settlement” (Helicon Nine, 1987, pg.51) let the reader know that they are in a black community. The dialect between the husband and wife: “Who dat chunkin ' money in mah do 'way?"(Helicon Nine, 1987, pg.52) Show the informal nature of the speaking manner in which they communicated. The betrayal comes into the story when the wife, Missy Mae, has a sexual affair with the newcomer to town and the husband, Joe, catches them within his bedroom. The description of Joe actions externally and his heartfelt feelings internally, describe the quick snappy tone of the entire story. The story goes on to show how Joe, eventually accepts the betrayal of his wife once she has a son, which his mother states the baby looks like him. This is where he starts to forgive his wife for the …show more content…
And these artists, writers, singers, and actors were very talented, they would always be labeled as the black artist. Because of segregation they will not be accepted equally with their white counterparts within the same profession. McKay’s tone in this chapter “"He Who Gets Slapped”, it narrated in a formal manner of words, showing his broad experience within a large city in the north. His choices of words are very descriptive adjectives that are arranged methodically with a monotone voice. Mckay’s narration of his superficial love of New York, with the love of writing about the community he found himself living in. He is writing about the experience of his life and how the opportunity of writing for The Liberator, able him to articulate his writing skills and literary voice for social justice (Bio.com, 2015, para 1). His love for NY, expressed the beauty of life in the city, when he stated,”I was so exalted by their monster movement that I forgot they were white” (McKay, CH12, pg. 106). His expository writing of his experience within the white artistic world left him feeling betrayed by the majority of the artist of the white world because he was seen as a black man first and critics or writer second. He descriptively uses words that the educated could understand the struggle of having white friends who do not understand the struggles