The White Man's Burden

simply have to guess what will happen after the end of the story. The writer decided to not include the last moments and leaves it up to us, as the reader, to finish his tale. One of these open ended literature pieces is Ernest Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants. The story depicts a couple waiting for the train at a station, to kill time they decide to have a few drinks and as the reader we get to follow their conversation. Although it is mentioned nowhere, they are talking about the…

it can be seen from there are so many contrast between woman and man. In this story a woman described as “domestic creature” it means that a woman does the domestic activity such as washing, cooking, sewing, etc. it can be seen in lines, “wash the white clothes on Monday… wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them…”, “be sure to wash every day, even if it is with your own spit;”, “cook pumpkin fritters in very hot sweet oil;”, “soak your little cloths right after you take them off;”, and…

polices against Indigenous people arguing that they needed to be ‘civilized’ which followed European behavioral thinking. These policies subjected Indigenous people to generations of neglect and explains why people such as Bobby continue to resent white people (especially ones in authoritative positions) because of their…

Ralph Ellison was a man with a love of individuality. He was a man of vision and a radical thinker. His novel, Invisible Man, rattled the confining prison bars of racism and prejudice. Through his narrator, the Invisible Man, Ellison guides the reader on a path of tribulations. His labyrinthine story shows readers the untold truths of racism, and the blindness caused by the corrupt power structure of society. The cryptic journey of the invisible man leads the readers, to a ubiquitous message…

them from very far away toward the north a letter from an Indian lieutenant of Po he yemu to the effect that all of them should rebel, and that any pueblo that would not agree to it they would destroy, killing all the people…” (Reff 68). This young man’s testimony describes the situation in the Pueblo community during this time period. All of the Pueblo Indians were expected to revolt because it was their duty to protect their culture. A Queres Indian, Pedro Naranjo, testified that: “……

Racism is a product of the complex interaction in a given society of a race-based worldview with prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination. Racism can be present in social actions, practices, or political systems (e.g., apartheid) that support the expression of prejudice or aversion in discriminatory practices. The ideology underlying racist practices often includes the idea that humans can be subdivided into distinct groups that are different in their social behavior and innate capacities and…

Another man that describes the European attitude is Wole Soyinka an African man. Soyinka was born towards the end of Imperialism in Nigeria by Great Britain. He describes the attitudes of Europeans toward Africans. Soyinka grew up under Imperialism with the influence of European cultures, such as; religion and education. Soyinka wanted to inform how Imperialism affected Africans. In an interview he states, “I listened to lots of conversations between my father and his intellectual circle, in the…

Kipling, “a superb literary craftsman” (Horton 682), is one of the world’s most beloved children’s authors. He utilized many literary styles, writing novels such as Kim, Captains Courageous, The Light That Failed, and poems such as “If” and “The White Man’s Burden.” However, he is most well known for his array of colorful children’s stories such as Just So Stories, and perhaps his most well-known piece, the Jungle Book. Possessing a deep admiration for Indian culture, Kipling penned colorful,…

Mankind has always been curious of the possibility of an “other.” Throughout our timeline, various cultures have come to the idea of a God or gods and others have looked to either spirits or some other ephemeral entity. But as a race, humans have been greedy, voracious consumers of everything. In the 1800’s, the ideology of “Manifest Destiny” was used to justify the wholesale slaughter of Native Americans and the taking of their land and resources. It was believed that it was the God given…

The imperialist’s ideology is that Africans are primitive beings incapable of knowing what is good for themselves, let alone for anyone else. African societies were self-governed by the rule of law, but the Europeans and North Americans found it difficult to recognize and accept it. Not more than 60 years later, Europe found out that it had gained nothing from territorial possession; it went back to its policy of decolonization. These years of colonization thus became wasted as Europe had…