Modernism

I chose to read about The Jazz age for this assignment. I chose this one because it caught my attention and I like reading about things like that I can relate to. I’m always surrounded by a lot of people who drink and do illegal things. I think that The Jazz Age will talk about partying and people who drink and have too much fun. I also think that it will become discussed after someone realizes that drinking may be a problem for a lot of people.

This was a very good story. I like the story because it shows that people some times imagine things a lot differently than what someone look forward to seeing. I can tell that she was not going to be as happy as she thought she was because she left all of her friends and the place that she grew up just to be with someone she met recently. After she went to the North and seen how differently it was than where she grew up, it made her realize how much she really loved her friends and the south. I guess the saying is true "you don’t know what you got until it’s gone."

After going to the north and seeing how cold it was compared to the south I knew that she wasn’t going to be able to stand being there. If you really look at it, it would have changed her entire life. I say that because when she was at home she and her friend went swimming almost everyday and she loved the climate. I also say that because when she went up north the people acted high class and the accent was probably really different. In Georgia where she had come from people were very country, they had a southern slang.

I think that this story shows Disillusionment because when Sally Carol went to New York, she thought that she would fit in perfectly and that people would accept her the way she is. At some points in the story it shows that Harry did not like people who are from the south. "He must be a Southerner, judging by those trousers," suggested Earry mischievously. "Those damn Southerners!" These two sentences where things that Harry said that shows that he does not like the south or people from the south.

Sally Carol did not like the north a lot because of it’s whether. "Why do you live here if it's so depressing?" "Oh, Harry," she whispered, "it's so co-old!" "But outside it's cold; and oh, that howling wind!" she couldn't be left here to wander forever -- to be frozen, heart, body, and soul. Those are sentences that Sally Carol said that prove that she dislikes the whether down there and that she is very uncomfortable.

I think that Richard Corey was admired by a lot of people because they thought that he is perfect. Obviously his life wasn’t the way that everyone seen it. I that to be something going on in his personal life that was really bothering him. He had to have something going on his life that he couldn’t handle and that put a lot of stress on him, and that’s why he killed himself. This story was Disillusionment because people had the wrong idea about his life; they thought that he was happy just because he had money.

The Mending wall was an example of Disillusionment; I say that because the neighbor thought that they absolutely had to have the wall between their properties. The other neighbor thought that it was no reason to have a wall because they don’t have any animals or anything that would cause a conflict between their yards. "Good fences make good neighbors." This sentence tells that the neighbor thought that the only relationship they had is when they came out to build the wall. Basically he meant that as long as the keep going out to build the wall, they would have a good relationship with each other. There where it is we do not need the wall: He is all pine and I am apple orchard. This shows that the other neighbor think that it is crazy and not necessary to have a wall between their land.

"A Dream Deferred" was very short but a pretty good poem. I think that "A Dream Deferred" is an example of The Harlem Renaissance. I liked this poem because he is asking people what happens to A Dream Deferred. By deferred I think he mean like delayed or put back until the future. I think he wrote this because back then black people had to put their dreams aside until they got on their feet. Like they had to wait until slavery was illegal so they can be free and live their own lives and have their own dreams. Also to live the way he want and not live his life based on what people tell him what he have to do.

I think that he is trying to say that most dreams are not accomplished, or either delayed for a long time. The more time it takes to accomplish a dream the less hope you have of living it. Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun- by this he mean that the dream is put on hold for so long that it has been forgotten about. Or does it explode? By exploding he means does it really happen, does someone live the dream that they always wanted to live. By exploding I think he also mean that the dream has been held in for so long that it just has to happen and that person will do any and everything to make sure it does.

"The Negro Speaks of Rivers", I think that this was a good poem and it really involving a lot of thinking to get what he’s trying to say. This poem was The Harlem Renaissance because he was saying that the first people in the world were black peoples color and that black people should have the right to learn how to read and write. He is saying that white people don’t want black people to be educated because they don’t want black people to understand what’s really going on in the world.

"I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it." By this he means that the people who were the first people on earth were more his color than white peoples color. He is also saying that the people who looked black built the pyramids and most of the first things that was on earth. I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset. By this he mean that slaves were singing in sadness because they had to be slaved all of the time and there was nothing that anyone could do about it because back then black people had no rights and their voices were not heard.

"Incident" this poem was really short and simple. It is about a man writing a poem about when he first went to Baltimore. He said that the only thing he remember about his visit to Baltimore is someone calling him a "Nigger". Normally when a person visit a place for the first time they would remember the site that they seen and how beautiful or ugly the place is, but that hurt his feelings so bad that the only thing he remember about going there is when that person called him a "Nigger".