24.Compare Dr. Bledsoe’s ideas about black/white relations to those of the narrator’s grandfather? Dr. Bledsoe has an attitude toward black/white relations that is very set in stone. He realizes that white people will always be in power, will always lie, and will always get their way no matter what he does to try to stop it so he lets it happen. He knows he can't go against it and he likes the power he holds at the school so he will do whatever it takes to please the white community so that they are eating out of the palm his hand. However, the narrators grandfather was a fighter in the sense that he knew there was something wrong with the way white people treat blacks and believed that he could change it, not over night but with the continued
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Bledsoe however is happy if the white people are happy which would be an unsettling relationship to the narrators grandfather if he were alive to witness it.
25.How is Dr. Bledsoe’s handshake an example of foreshadowing?
The handshake between the narrators and Dr. Bledsoe can be seen as the start of a new chapter for the narrator but not necessarily a good one. He has been expelled from college because of his actions while in charge of Mr. Norton and this handshake with Dr. Bledsoe seems forced and unfriendly. After the many unkind and harsh things Dr. Bledsoe said to the narrator it is unlikely that he will help him in the future and is just setting him up for failure.
Chapter Seven
26.What does it mean when the veteran tells the narrator to be his own father?
The advice given to the narrator by the veteran to be his own father is the veterans way of telling him to take charge of himself and his life. The narrator needs to be his own protector, advice giver, and money maker; he must do everything he needs to live for himself and the veteran wants him to be aware of that because nobody else will step into the role of father for the narrator, he must do it
Bledsoe however is happy if the white people are happy which would be an unsettling relationship to the narrators grandfather if he were alive to witness it.
25.How is Dr. Bledsoe’s handshake an example of foreshadowing?
The handshake between the narrators and Dr. Bledsoe can be seen as the start of a new chapter for the narrator but not necessarily a good one. He has been expelled from college because of his actions while in charge of Mr. Norton and this handshake with Dr. Bledsoe seems forced and unfriendly. After the many unkind and harsh things Dr. Bledsoe said to the narrator it is unlikely that he will help him in the future and is just setting him up for failure.
Chapter Seven
26.What does it mean when the veteran tells the narrator to be his own father?
The advice given to the narrator by the veteran to be his own father is the veterans way of telling him to take charge of himself and his life. The narrator needs to be his own protector, advice giver, and money maker; he must do everything he needs to live for himself and the veteran wants him to be aware of that because nobody else will step into the role of father for the narrator, he must do it