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The Fourth Of July By Audre Lorde

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Each of the three essayists use different writing techniques in their pieces to make great essays. Audre Lorde used flashbacks multiple times in “The Fourth of July,” giving the reader an adult explanation to the different things that happened to her and her family involving the trip to DC. Lorde was very frustrated and angry when describing her trip, especially in the very last paragraph, with the repetition of the word white. She used white to describe everything she saw in DC seeing the racism in American culture at the time. George Orwell used in-depth description in his scenes to really show the reader what happened to Orwell in Burma. Orwell had a tone of regret throughout the essay. He did not absolutely have to kill the elephant, but
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