'A Literary Analysis Of Being Black'
This portion of the book presents more short stories, but at this point we start to see how this stories relate to the bigger essays in the book. It possible to see a correlation between the short stories and the bigger essays. We can argue that the short stories work as an introduction to the the larger idea within the bigger essay. These correlation is present, yet it’s not clear. Determining the actual function of each short story individual becomes really challenging since the short stories do not seem to have a clear connection between them. We can certainly see that the stories are related to the topic discussed in the previous response paper, being black. Most of the stories resemble the experiences of being black. I don’t really understand
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Those moments where people choose to ignore the fact that racism is happening right in there face. Rankine uses this brilliant arrangement of the different short stories to exemplify how racism takes place in our everyday life. She uses this short stories to open the readers’ eyes before they get to the essays. Even though I can see this connection, I think something is missing. I believe that there is a deeper connection than just introducing the bigger idea. There short stories engender a sense of confusion in me. They not always clear; They tend to be ambiguous, but their ambiguity makes them more powerful because it leaves more space for critical thinking. The stories are not just telling you that explicitly that racism is taking place, but they give readers the opportunity to put their emotions into their interpretation which leads to the acquisition of the message or the intensification of previous beliefs. One would say that Rankine’s goal was to make us thinking about the issue and actually realize that it is not something that should be address when police brutality or a “big” racist act happens; it should be addressed every day until is completely effaced or at least not visible. Rankine attacks this issue from every angle and she does this on purpose to increase the likelihood of readers realizing the true power of this issues. One of the short stories has a male showing a female the pictures of his wife and tell the female “she is beautiful and black, like you.” She uses this to show beauty should not be based on the amount of pigment in the skin of an individual. She utilizes this to give strength to the black females reading this and make them understand how valuable they are. Rankine wants them to know that skin color is irrelevant when it comes to determining who someone is. What is if colors didn’t exist? People
Those moments where people choose to ignore the fact that racism is happening right in there face. Rankine uses this brilliant arrangement of the different short stories to exemplify how racism takes place in our everyday life. She uses this short stories to open the readers’ eyes before they get to the essays. Even though I can see this connection, I think something is missing. I believe that there is a deeper connection than just introducing the bigger idea. There short stories engender a sense of confusion in me. They not always clear; They tend to be ambiguous, but their ambiguity makes them more powerful because it leaves more space for critical thinking. The stories are not just telling you that explicitly that racism is taking place, but they give readers the opportunity to put their emotions into their interpretation which leads to the acquisition of the message or the intensification of previous beliefs. One would say that Rankine’s goal was to make us thinking about the issue and actually realize that it is not something that should be address when police brutality or a “big” racist act happens; it should be addressed every day until is completely effaced or at least not visible. Rankine attacks this issue from every angle and she does this on purpose to increase the likelihood of readers realizing the true power of this issues. One of the short stories has a male showing a female the pictures of his wife and tell the female “she is beautiful and black, like you.” She uses this to show beauty should not be based on the amount of pigment in the skin of an individual. She utilizes this to give strength to the black females reading this and make them understand how valuable they are. Rankine wants them to know that skin color is irrelevant when it comes to determining who someone is. What is if colors didn’t exist? People