An Analysis Of Dubois's Essay The Souls Of Black Folk

1.) How did Dubois set up the contrast between blacks and whites in his essays "The Souls of Black Folk"?

In this essay was published in 1903 as African American Liturate. Dubois did well at explaining the differences in the lives of the “white” and “black” people. He begins his work “The Souls of Black Folk” by setting up contrast between the lives of whites and blacks by referring to the “other world’. (533) When Dubois referred to the other world, he is talking about the lives led by the white people; a world of opportunity, happiness, fairness, etc. He later talks about his people being “shut out from their world by a vast veil”. This motif is used as a metaphor for ignorance, prejudice, and the uneducated. Another way that Dubois

Hemingway uses imagery in his work “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” to reflect his passing from life to death. The word “Kilimanjaro” translates into “House of God”. The story opens with Harry discussing his dying leg and the smell that the infection or gangrene creates. One example of his knowledge of impending death reads, ““Don’t be silly. I’m dying now. Ask those bastards.” He looked over to where the huge, filthy birds sat, their naked heads sunk in the hunched feathers.”. (1022) Based on the context clues of his use of the word ‘bastards” one may assume that he is referring to a vulture, an animal that eats the flesh of the dead. Harry goes in and out of consciousness, which prompts visions that Hemingway uses as imagery of his current experiences with death. Hemingway’s use of the term “snow” can be taken as symbolism of impending death, as one of the opening passages reads, “looking out the window and seeing snow on the mountains in Bulgaria and Nansen’s Secretary asking the old man if it were snow and the old man looking at it and saying no, that’s not snow. It’s too early for snow. And the Secretary repeating to the other girls, No, you see. It’s not snow and them all saying, it’s not snow we were mistaken. But it was snow alright and he send them on into it when he evolved exchange of populations.” (1023) The “snow” (death) was inevitable whether they accepted it or

One may assume this opening statement introduces the theme of “separation of social classes based on wealth” as a layout for the entire story.

6.) Compare and contrast the South of Faulkner with the South of Richard Wright.

Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi in 1897, but later moved to Oxford, Mississippi. He was a southern fiction writer and a modernist. The characters Faulkner used are comparable to those of the modern television shows of “Roseanne” and “My Name is Earl”. Many of his stories also had a southern setting. Richard wright, on the other hand, is also from the south. Wright was a slave, which formed his views of the south. Wright seemed to write more controversial works of racial themes.

7.) What kind of man is J. Aflred Prufrock? What does Eliot mean when he writes, "I have heard the mermaids singing, I do not think they will sing to