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Post by :) on Aug 16, 2022 1:05:48 GMT -5
In the final paragraph of "The Fourth of July'', Lorde used the adjective "white" six times. I think she did that to emphasize the racism that she realized she was experiencing on her trip. She points out how the waitress, counter, ice cream, pavement, heat leaving childhood, and the monuments were all white. I think she pointed all these things out and made sure to call them white to prove how out of place she felt as a black girl in this all white world. I also think pointing out all the white things that were at D.C. was to show that this was our country's capital, a place that symbolizes the freedom and new life that America is supposed to be, but this monumental place was also full of racism that took away people's freedom.
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Post by zacharyhiscock on Aug 16, 2022 11:21:19 GMT -5
Lorde uses the adjective "white" throughout the final sentence in her essay to emphasize how she felt about America and how she felt in her own surroundings. She felt out of place, and felt as if it was disgusting living in her own country. The U.S. was supposedly "free," but only for things that are white. This was when she entered "adulthood," which, in my opinion, is her realizing what the U.S. is truly like. I feel like It was really amazing to use this adjective just to describe how her own country was like, ever since she was a kid. She didn't notice it until later, but everything was "white." It fits in this story very well and helps drive her point even more. I personally believe that if it was any other word, it wouldn't have worked as well, so I truly enjoy that the adjective "white" was the one used.
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Post by chanks on Aug 17, 2022 15:19:13 GMT -5
Lorde used “white” as the repeated adjective in the last paragraph of the story. I believe she used it so many times to add emphasis. I think in the story the main character was a little bit more of a realization that something like that actually happened to her. I think the repetition of the adjective white could be recognized as an anger thing and just going off on the simple fact. I think this could also be interpreted as her finally realizing what territory she was in. Being surrounded all around white monuments and buildings, but the moment infuriated her so much that everything she saw or noticed that was white made her upset, it was an act of projection. I think personally over time when you are just now realizing what status and system you’re subjected to as a person you become immune to it. Not that situations like this don't disappoint, like we still recognize it’s a problem and that change is needed but when you hear about it it’s like again really? That's until it happens to you. You’d like to plan out what you would like to do but you never truly know what you’re gonna do until you're in the situation yourself.
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Post by Emily Porco on Aug 18, 2022 13:22:14 GMT -5
Lorde uses the adjective "white" six times in one sentence in the final paragraph. I think she chose white so many times because it is what her trip was based on. They went as a family because her sister was not allowed to go on her school trip because she wasn't white. They couldn't eat in the dining part of the train because they weren't white. As well as the fact that they couldn't get ice cream because they were not white. Lorde even noticed how white the pavement was and used white to describe the heat. She put such an emphasis on how white her trip was and that it all revolved on someone or something being white. Using this adjective also emphasized what kind of society they were living in at the time. They were in the mid 1900's and American society was dominated by white people, while Lorde's family had to deal with the discrimination and injustices against them because they were not white.
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Post by ellen T on Aug 18, 2022 15:31:53 GMT -5
Throughout the final paragraph of The Forth of July, Lorde uses the word White 6 times. I believe she repeats this word not only in this final sentence but slowly throughout the whole work to really show her childhood censorship fading away. After this trip her parents can no longer protect and shield her from the evils of racism in the world. By using the word white over and over she shows how different she feels and out of place she feels in, what she is describing, a white world. She faced heavy discrimination for the first time in her life in Washington DC and I think all of this came flooding in, for the first time she really sees how large a factor racism was at that time and how largely in negatively affected people of color in America. This experience was a huge social awakening for her and jumpstarted her career into combatting racism through her writing.
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Post by ameliagougam on Aug 18, 2022 18:37:46 GMT -5
In the last paragraph of "The Fourth of July", Lorde uses the adjective "white" six times. From my perspective as a reader, it seems that Lorde used the word in order to truly emphasize the white supremacy found in the United States, and the discrimination that people of other races/ethnicities, like herself, are faced with. I think she also chose to use it to show people how suffocating it can feel to be a person of color in a country that wants nothing to do with you. She was living in a country that claims to have fought for everyone’s “independence” and “equality”. However, as a Black woman, Lorde was unable to feel grateful as she was extremely underrepresented and even hated. Throughout the rest of her trip, and when she reflects on it later, she isn’t able to have pleasant memories of the experience as she is constantly reminded that people do not like her because of her color; They don’t even want to serve ice cream to her. Even though the “white counter” or the “white heat” or the “white pavement” do not actually have anything to do with race, or the racism that Lorde had encountered, it was a constant reminder to her of who was considered most important in the country, of what was superior: white.
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Post by dominickf on Aug 19, 2022 11:02:33 GMT -5
Lorde uses the adjective "white" six times in the final sentence. I think she used this word to describe how she didn't fit in. Throughout the story, she explained how it was so much brighter and hotter, but she did not use the word white to describe it until the ending paragraph. I think she used this to emphasize how much it was brought to her attention that she didn't belong there. During this paragraph, Lorde's perspective shifts and she explains at the end how the trip didn't feel much like a good graduation trip after all. Throughout the story, she adds small details about the racism going on but explains that she wasn't really aware of it as her parents kept it from her but at the end of the story she can't avoid it, and I think she emphasized the word as well to explain that she finally understood what was going on.
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Post by sthompson on Aug 23, 2022 16:21:07 GMT -5
Lorde uses white six times in the essays final paragraph. I think that was to emphasize the fact that she stepped out into the world for the first time since this was the “edge of the summer when I was supposed to stop being a child” and saw through her experience at the ice cream counter, the deeply rooted racism in this country. At first Lorde was so excited to see the founding fathers and the historical monuments at D.C. but all she could see was the white interpretation of history and the effects it’s had on anyone other than that of, white. I think it shows how unfortunately her eyes were opened to the fact that the racist experiences that were minimized and ignored throughout her life, were every where and a lot bigger of a deal than they were made out to be.
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Post by babydollbouncyballs on Aug 23, 2022 22:05:28 GMT -5
In the last paragraph Lorde uses the word “white” to describe everything around her. The word is used to emphasize the way she feels out of place like she doesn’t belong. Using the word white shines on the overwhelming realization she has about how she fits in the country. She remembers the smallest of things being white which draws more of a line between her and this exciting experience that her trip was supposed to be. However, seeing the founding fathers and historical monuments in the story also opened her eyes. She sees all this history painted in the eyes of white people and its effects on anyone who wasn't white. She states that it is the year she enters “adulthood” as she loses more of that childhood ignorance and bliss that her parents gave her. She realizes that the racist experiences she had throughout her life were underplayed and ignored and were a lot more important than the way they were seen originally.
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Post by adewees on Aug 24, 2022 8:29:06 GMT -5
Lorde uses the adjective “white” 6 times in the one sentence final paragraph. She uses this word to describe the world around her at the time, and how it contrasts from her and her family. They walk into this restaurant full of white, seeing it as a reinforcement that this is a good restaurant (like a white marble counter), when in reality it is a warning that it is a bad restaurant. Not literally, but based on the way that her and her family are treated. This sour experience at the restaurant really ruins the trip for Lorde because she believed in America and the American way, but here she learns that this does not include her. What makes it even worse is that she is the only one that feels betrayed by this experience, everyone else in her family moves on as if this is normal, and should remain normal.
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Post by robbie kays on Aug 24, 2022 19:45:33 GMT -5
The word that Lorde uses 6 times at the end of her essay is white. She used it so many times to show how out of place she felt and to emphasize that the root of many of the challenges she faces all have to do with something connected to the color white. Everywhere she turns she sees the color white or describes something with the word white, which in a way also emphasizes on how white people wanted things to stay that way and to keep black and white separate and by Lorde using the word many times at the end it shows how white people were successful with that and surrounded by white majority leaving no other ways to describe how she felt about her trip. When she describe how she felt leaving her childhood she describes as white, which also shows how even moving onto adult life she is still surrounded by that one word
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Post by Talia Robertson on Aug 24, 2022 20:06:54 GMT -5
Lorde uses the adjective "white" six times in the one sentence final paragraph. I believe she chose to use it so many times to get her point across how much her entire experience in Washington D.C. was impacted by her not being white. I think that before her family's trip to D.C. she didn't understand racism in America. But after experiencing blatant discrimination in the ice cream shop, learning why her sister couldn't go on her graduation trip, and learning why her family couldn't eat in the dining car, she began to truly understand. And, when she first arrived in D.C she found all the things she listed as beautiful but after her experience she developed a new outlook on them. These things that she thought represented a beautiful democracy in the nationals capital were now all just reminders that America is not a true democracy and that she did not fit into the group of people that got to enjoy the luxury of it. And by using the adjective "white" repeatedly in what i interpreted as an angry tone really gets her point across.
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Post by brendant on Aug 25, 2022 10:29:09 GMT -5
At the end of Audre Lorde's essay, the last paragraph consists of a single sentence, and in this sentence she uses the adjective white six times. She labeled all these different things from coffee creamer to the heat of weather as white. I believe she used this adjective to describe so much was to emphasize how uniformly white this community of Washington D.C., not even to mention the places of the United States that have the most power. Everywhere she went here she would see white people all about, and has a person that is not white I would assume she would be very uncomfortable in that situation. She uses this adjective many times to demonstrate how select this area is, I wonder what would be the minimum about of people that are not white would it take for her not to define this area as she just did.
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Post by rubyberg on Aug 25, 2022 20:54:52 GMT -5
Lorde uses the adjective "white" six times throughout the final sentence of her essay. As she wrote throughout, there were many times where Lorde was pretended with the idea of just having to adhere to the racism she experiences around her, without questioning why. This can be seen when she writes about her experience in the ice cream shop. Her and her family were denied service, and the family left without even questioning it. Except Lorde, she writes about how her family did not do anything and they did not deserve to be told to leave. I believe she uses the word "white" six times to emphasize the fact that white people did not have to question how they were treated ever, while African American's were just expected to understand.
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Post by Kierra Walker on Aug 27, 2022 14:25:04 GMT -5
In the last paragraph, the word "white" is used six times. I believe she used this word to show how prominent it was in her life. Lorde's life was controlled by white people. They decided where she could eat and where she was allowed to go. They dictated where she was welcome and made it be known when she wasn't. It shows the realization she had when it came to just how much discrimination her family was really facing and how out of place they actually were. Lorde's family could no longer shield her from reality and it marks the change in her way of thinking and her perception of her own life. It all came together at once and having to grasp all of that was overwhelming. After this happens, Lorde's former life ceased because there was no way to deny what she was then seeing and she was unable to live as she had previously.
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