Sadie Sullivan

Word Count:252  In this documentary, we hear a lot of stories from women writers and some of the struggles they went through with how many hours they would spend writing and how hard it was for some of them to get their works published the way they were originally written. I focused on how a few of the women stated that their publishers would not approve of their writings and would ask if they could make their writings more focused on the elegance of their lives rather than the realism of the world they would attempt to write about. These women spoke about how they enjoyed writing with an energetic aesthetic and more of a risk with their works. Publishers even disapproved of these women writing about immigrant women as they did not want to spread this sense of cultural collision that was growing prominent. It is interesting to hear about how many of these women are realists and desire to write about what is really going on in the world and how they are being affected by it. Another...

 Word Count: 352 " But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams  his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream    his wings are clipped and his feet are tied    so he opens his throat to sing." I chose to analyze this particular poem of Maya Angelou called "Caged Bird" as I felt it demonstrated a strong contrast between someone who is free and someone who is restricted from life in some way. Angelou created a tone in her poem that represented freedom and happiness felt by the free bird and a tone that represented loneliness and sadness felt by the trapped bird. The use of imagery in Maya Angelou's poems greatly helps readers to envision their own version and interpretation of the poem. In this particular poem, the reader begins reading the poem with the imagery presented to represent a bird flying through the sky with the sun shining on it as it meant to represent freedom and happiness. She then changes the mood completely by representing imagery of a bird that...

 Word Count: 330 "What I want to steal her old pocketbook with all the money I got? I could buy a beat chick like her and give her away. I got money's mammy and Grandma change. One of my women, and not the best one I got neither, is buying me ten shag suits at one time." Overall, Harlem Slang involves a conversation between two men that are primarily bantering about money and women. It struck me as a very degrading conversation in which the two men were consistently trying to prove superiority over the other with the money and women they have. This particular quote was at the very end after they had just spoke to a woman who was much more confident in herself and stood up for herself to these men. She was also claiming to have money and accused the men of wanting to take her pocketbook as she left. Therefore, in this quote, the men are referencing her comment and the one man states that he did not have a need to take her pocketbook. There is a sense of excessive pride an...