Blackness

unshakeable courage. An example of his courage and bravery is when he said: “Have watched me rise from the darkness of war. Dripping with my enemy’s blood. I drove five great giants into chains, chased all that raced from the earth, I swam in the blackness of night, hunting monsters out of the ocean and killing them one by one” (247-254). In addition to his example, he displays another level of courage. When he went face the dragon he knew that he could not survive the battle, but he had the…

about the education of upcoming generations. The story begins with a frustrated temper “ I PASSED ALL THE OTHER COURSES that I took at my University , but I could never pass botany”. Thurber was the fail in botany class. He didn’t see anything but “blackness or the familiar lacteal opacity” and also “a variegated constellation of flecks, specks and dots”, the reflection of his eyes. Thurber failed to make a drawing of plant cells because he was unable to see in the microscope with his thick…

An African-Canadian journalist, novelist, author, and academic named Cecil Foster, specifically spoke about multiculturalism, race, immigration, and ethnicity. Foster originally came from Barbados and later emigrated to Toronto, Canada where he flourished as a public intellectual. Before moving to Canada, he already worked in Barbados as a news broadcaster and editor with the Caribbean News Agency (CANA) and Barbados Advocate-News. Eventually, his journey in broadcasting triumphed through…

Attending one can provide growth and self-awareness throughout oneself. You become a lion, fierce with your eyes pierced open. I never knew how much attending an HBCU would change the way I think and perceive the world. I have learned to embrace my blackness in front of anyone, not withholding my true self from people who do not…

In Lorain, after getting marriage Pauline begins to miss her people. She has never lived around so many white people. She surprised that the black people living in the North are different than in the south. In the South, the communities were strongly isolated, and whites were over aggressive toward blacks. In the North, the whites and blacks are more integrated and racism is less overt and aggressive but still exists. As a result, outside pressure of white violence and attack does not connect…

digging up the graves or the executions of the prisoners are just a few examples of the “black milk.” It is universally known in almost all cultures that the white color is associated with life, however, this poem challenges our perception with the blackness color. Therefore, “black milk” is the dominant metaphor in the whole poem. Celan’s “metaphors are used to redefine words, and these definitions change depending on where they are located in the poem” (35). We immediately conceptualize that…

He writes about how his father was a paranoid, cruel and bitter, but at the same time an extremely powerful man. He writes that this power comes from his “blackness”, and that the main reason for his father’s anger was his inability to really be proud of his blackness regardless of what he may have told his family and friends. From this inability to express his own feelings of anger and frustration of his own life in a healthy way Baldwin’s father lived and died…

glimpse of the setting perfectly describes the bleakness of the surrounding while demonstrating the psychological effect of the darkness on the narrator. This picture arises from the expression of the narrator’s feelings, when he states that “the blackness of eternal night encompassed me. I struggled for breath. The intensity of the darkness seemed to oppress and stifle me” (Poe 3). Such a particular statement unmistakably proves how the setting relates to the larger themes of the story, as the…

Ryan is a young teenage boy. He loves astrology, especially the constellations. "I'm home!", Ryan yelled and walks in to the blue, bright house. "I'm going outside!" Outside, he finds a little boy crying. "Are you lost?", questions Ryan. "No, I can't get back to my family!", the mysterious boy says. Ryan looks around and says,"Well where are they? Up there!" The boy says and points up to the sky. "In...the...sky?" "Yeah. I'm Scorpio." "Wait, you're a Zodiac?" "Yes. The only way back to my family…

the occasional lamp. We talked casually more. When we reached my house, I bade him goodbye and shut the door. After entering my home, I undid the screens fastened in the window. Gone into the darkness, swallowed, enveloped in the smoky tendrils of blackness. Huh, I thought to myself, he must of walked…