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5. While squinting up at monuments to freedom and past presidencies and democracy, the writer was wondering why the light and heat were both so much stronger in Washington D.C. than back home in New York City. Even the pavement on the streets was a shade lighter in color than back home. Any symbolic meaning?
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Questions for Close Reading
1. What is the selection's thesis (or narrative point)? Locate the sentence(s) in which Lorde states her main idea. If she doesn't state the thesis explicitly, express it in your own words.
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Marian Anderson had sung at the Lincoln Memorial, also because she wanted to spread Lincoln's noble ideas, to show that his noble ideas had not been realized and to call on people to fight against racial discrimination and segregation so as to make Lincoln's noble thought come true and win liberation and freedom for the black people.
How did you organize it? What standard did you have when you came
to judge it the way you did? What is your conclusion?
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Read the essay together!
THE FOURTH OF JULY (By Audre Lorde)
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Here, most probably, the white light and heat and the white pavement on the streets symbolize the white domination. Actually, the writer was wondering why the white domination or racial discrimination was even stronger in Washington D.C. than back home in New York City.
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There were probably two reasons. On the one hand, by taking a variety of food with them on the trip, the family members could save some money, for dining car food was too expensive. On the other hand, as black people, they were not allowed into railroad dining cars at that time.
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4.Why did the writer spend the whole next day after Mass squinting up at the Lincoln Memorial? And why had Marian Anderson sung at the Lincoln Memorial after the D.A.R. refused to allow her to sing in their auditorium because she was Black?
English Writing (2)
Hao Guilian, Ph.D. Yunnan Normal University
Fall, 2011
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In-class presentation
The outline of your essay writing:
What is the focus (studying point) of your essay?
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3. Why had the writer's elder sister been prevented from going to Washington D.C. with her high school classmates?
Because she was black and all her classmates were white and they would be staying in a hotel which did not rent rooms to Negroes.
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2. In paragrapLeabharlann Baidu 4, Lorde describes the elaborate picnic her mother prepared for the trip to Washington, D.C. Why did Lorde's mother make such elaborate preparations? What do these preparations tell us about Lorde's mother?
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It was Lincoln, the American President, who liberated the blacks in America, who advocated freedom for the colored and who even sacrificed his life for the emancipation of the black people. Both the writer and Marian Anderson cherished the memory of this great man.
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