Black Book

explores a prison experience, albeit from the prisoner’s point of view, its stark simplicity and spare language belie a complex and profound book. Gaines uses harsh (or austere) language to reflect the spiritual and personal alienation of humans in the twentieth century. Through Grant Wiggins’ emotionally detached account of Jefferson’s trial at the beginning of the book, we recognize that something about the main character is out of the ordinary. The novel chronicles Grant’s role in Jefferson’s mental

to “I, Too, Sing America” by Langston Hughes After reading the poem, I analyzed it and I found three major parts; introduction, realization and affirmation. On the first line, he says; “I am the darker brother,”, and I immediately know that he is black. He is a “brother” because he is an American. On the second paragraph, he explains that he discriminated and that he does not have equal rights. However, starting line nine, he does say; “But I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.”, it shows that

novel is very important. The book begins with these words “I wasn’t there”  The narrator immediately warns the readers that he didn’t go to the trial. He claims that it’s due to the fact that he knows what the verdict would be. He is aware of the conclusions of the jury. He knows it’s hopeless. But as the opening sentence of the novel, it also describes Grant’s state of mind not only in this passage but in the whole story: he distances himself from the rest of the blacks and tries to show that he

the world ones again. Place/time South Africa, late 70's. Background A white minority of the population is ruling South Africa. The voteless black majority of South Africa is being suppressed terribly by the government, because of the race laws, which very conveniently assure the whites of a good wealthy living in South Africa. Many blacks see the injustice being made against their brothers and sisters and cry out for equality. But the youth see their fathers and brothers being killed in

Prize; and at the age of 9, she moved to Nebraska prairie. The novel was published in 1918. We will study Book one and Chapter one. The first chapter is entitled « The Shimerdas ». It focuses on the journey from Virginia to Nebraska. Jim Burden, who is ten years old, was an orphan and he was going to live in his grandparents in Nebraska more precisely in Black Hawk. To begin with, I would like to summarize this chapter. Then in my second part, I will analyse

childhood friend Antonia Shimerda, the eldest daughter of an immigrant family of Bohemians farmers living in Black Hawk Nebraska. The novel is divided into an introduction and 5 separate books. These 5 stages correspond to different parts of the life of the narrator, form childhood to adulthood. Book I starts in 1880 and the novel covers a 30 year period. So nox I’m going to read the extract of the Book IV, Chapter IV, from “the next afternoon” to “could end there”. The next day, Jim goes to see Antonia

her home at the age of 15 and became a nursemaid. At the age of 19, while she was working as a phone operator in Salisbury, she married her first husband, Frank Wisdom. They had two children and divorced in 1943. She then joined a communist book club, the Left Book Club, where she encountered Gottfried Lessing, her second husband, with whom she had a boy. They divorced in 1949 and she fled to London with her youngest child to pursue her writing career. She published her first successful novel the same

Ernest J . GAINES, A lesson before dying. This document cost together the cover page and the back page of a book called A lesson before dying written by Enest J. Gaines. It composed of a summary in the left, of the title and a picture in the right and of several captions on either side. From the beginning, the author by the title makes us aware about the denouement and announces that he will raise the question of the waiting for the expected death. The scene takes place in the late of fourteens

whole country. But the black community still did not attain an equal status. Indeed, an era of segregation and racism against “the Negros”, as they were often called, followed. Racism and violence escalated in post-civil war America and associations like the Ku Klux Klan grew. Often, the black community preferred to stay silent or become “Oreos”, but some individuals decided to stand up against oppression. Of those are Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, both militants for black peoples’ rights and

1er passage toute l’intro. Book 1 : 2e : Chap 1 « i first heard… so far west » 3e: chap 2 -“I do not remember…There’s nobody about” - “She was a spare...Of unusual endurance” - “My grandfather said little…working for grandfather” 4e: Chap2 “ As I looked about me…it comes as naturally as sleep” 5e: Chap3 –“The bohemian family…But Bohemians has a natural distrust of Austrians.” -“Very glad very glad!...And the boy smiled knowingly” 6e : Chap 4 –“All the years that have passed…Always seem