Post Modern Fiction 2
Wendy’s blog- I do believe that Jack’s denial of the airborne toxic event is the reason for him not being around when his son is talking about it. He carries a lot of pride which is truly a gigantic facade because pride is rooted in fear. He has pride because he is a college professor and thinks that something like an airborne toxic event can’t effect someone like him or cause him to run away. Considering how much pride he has, it can’t be easy for him to watch his teenage son be the one who actually comes to terms with reality and acts responsibly about it. In reverse, if Jack were to completely come to terms with reality, his prideful facade would crack and it would be quite visible that he is a big baby.
post modern fiction 1- I did find his writing very interesting and honestly something I could relate to, not just because of American Suburbia but because of unknowingly living in a false reality. I spend so much time with my mind on on things that don’t matter and then every once in awhile I wake up as if I was in a trance and I wonder where the time went. I believe he actually does portray his alcoholism problem in his writing because everywhere he went, people were drinking and escaping. I do agree that a lot of his success is due to him writing plainly about every day life because people can relate to it but I think what sets him apart is that underneath the average relatable story was a deep meaning. We have read other stories that are about everyday life but he is different for bringing in the distortion element.
Writers of the South –
brooke’s page-
There are definitely similar lines in which Yusef and the Harlem Renaissance write from. All of them have severe wounds from circumstances that gave them unjust and cruel treatment, and they all write from that perspective but they all go about it differently. The Harlem Renaissance writers wrote about racism and what was going on culturally as a whole and as it pertains to every person of color. They were writing on the basis of a fresh time period that was all about opportunity of new. Everything was a blank slate. Yusef’s was more in reference to his own life. Yusef is different from the writers in the Harlem Renaissance in that a big part of what he speaks about in his writing is not just his experience of racism, but also his experience from the Vietnam War and how it is caused him to have an “every man for himself” mindset and the way that consequently hardened his heart.
Harlem Renaissance –
Emily Eckles’ page-
I believe that Mckay was bold and wrote poems that showcased his true hurt and righteous anger. This could be due to his background of being discriminated against in a white populated city in Jamaica, as well as New York. In some of his poems he describes himself as a slave and I think he just had a more assertive strategy to writing poetry relating to the racial problems of the time. Hughes and Cullen also expressed their feelings about it but there were limitations they put on themselves regarding their full honestly of the pain they have felt and the harsh realties of being discriminated against. Hughes and Cullen are also different in that they also wanted to be strategic about the way they wrote, contemplating about what might truly be most effective. Cullens’ strategy being to just simply write as the poet that he is, not the African American poet that he is. He wanted to connect all people through good poetry, simply put. Hugh’s strategy being to express all parts of African American life, not just what might trigger the folks who were mistreating them or what might make them change their ways.
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