CR Post #3 American Born Chinese
In Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese, protagonist Jin grapples with internalized racism as he yearns for romantic connection with others. Through the graphic novel’s repeated image of lightning through Jin’s permed hair, this internalized racism depicts itself as a…
The Bluest Eye Post #3
“White kids; his mother did not like him to play with niggers. She had explained to him the difference between colored people and niggers. They were easily identifiable. Colored people were neat and quiet; niggers were dirty and loud.” pg….
CR Post #3
The color blue appears in the book multiple times in many different ways. The color blue represents many different things to each person, but all of these representations symbolize an aspect if white people. Pecola is obsessed with blue eyes…
CR #3 , Danbee Jeong
In the loneliness, she turned to her husband for reassurance, entertainment, for things to fill the vacant places. Housework was not enough; there were only two rooms, and no yard to keep or move about in. The women in the…
Bluest Eye CR Post 3
Close Reading Archeological Dig “My mother’s voice drones on. She is not talking to me. She is talking to the puke, but she is calling it my name: Claudia…My mother’s anger humiliates me; her words chafe my cheeks, and…
The Outsider CR Group A
The gang rivalry between the Greaser and the Soc more or less stems from their socioeconomic status. Both sides can only see things from their own perspective and let their outer appearance and material possession create hatred of each other….
The Outsiders CR
The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, demonstrates two social classes during the 1960s: the Greasers and the Socials (Socs). The story, narrated by Ponyboy Curtis, a former Greaser, depicts through vivid descriptions the members of this social group and really pinpoints on their…
Close Reading Post #3
Throughout S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, we are able to observe the mental and emotional transformations and revelations which Ponyboy undergoes as the story is told in the intimate form of first-person narrative. From the moment Ponyboy first steps out of…
The Outsiders Close Reading Post
In The Outsiders, there are three different scenes where one of the greasers get jumped by the Socs. The first happens right away in the beginning of the text on page 5. Ponyboy is walking home from the theater when…