Tuesday - After carefully analyzing the quotes of Mr. James Baldwin, carefully interpret what the essence of the quote is saying.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Analyzing Quotes of James Baldwin
Fully explain your answers in complete paragraphs and essays. Post your best essay to your blog for homework.
1
You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.
2
It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.
3
The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.
4
Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field.
5
It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.
6
Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.
7
We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have some sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and what we take life to be. The question is not what we can do now for the hypothetical Mexican, the hypothetical Negro. The question is what we really want out of life, for ourselves, what we think is real.
8
An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
2 comments:
Malik Williams 4/13/08
grade 9 9-4
languages arts
The James Bolwin Qoute
The whole essay was about a lot of life like situation .this essay was
about black people and also about the world and life experience.The first quote told us about
how Jame Bolwin instead of the world leading him to his faith he lead his self to his dream faith
and life experience .The second essay quote of james bolwin was about the understanding of the
black man lyrics which tells his story of a struggle but lots of people do not think about what is
the goods of the the lyrics they only see the negative of a black man lyrics .The 4Th quote tells
that if you were not born in the mother land but in American you are a American .The 8Th essay
quote says that you dont no what you cant or can do in till you experience it in life .
I chose the first quote to do my shotr essay on. I chose this one because of its deep meaning within its words. And just becuase it made a lot of sense as well. "You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself." To me this meant that if the world is beating you up long enough and good enough you will do the same to yourself. Ehich is also true but in the same sense to differ with the legend of james baldwin. Even if the world beats you up and your life isnt the way you want. The best thing you can do for yourself is to try your best to fix its. Thats what i try to accomplish everyday but most of the time it fails but you cant get what you want all the time. But because i know that this makes me want to fix it even more. Most just think that life is here to put us to the test and make ourselves want top be the best thing alive. To m e it is not. To me life is an experience every soul goes through. And by making something of myself my soul can live better than most and then when im dead i can help someone else out with the memoirs of my soul.
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