kyox
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Post by kyox on Aug 28, 2022 1:23:10 GMT -5
"White" was the adjective Lorde used six times in the last paragraph of "the forth 0f July". The reason being to really make sure us readers got engraved in our head what really ruined this trip for her. It was supposed to be a graduation gift but all things "white" were the reason it wasn't. The white waitress that made her and her family leave a diner where they were supposed to eat ice cream, the white she saw when squinting looking up at monuments that had nothing to do with her, and the white pavement that just reminded her that she was far from home in a place she really doesn't belong.
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Post by Sam Davis on Aug 28, 2022 12:45:18 GMT -5
When Lorde uses the adjective “white” six times in the closing statement it emphasizes the bias that America has. Lorde expresses how her and her family have had to deal with unfairness and racism in their life. She has seen racism growing up her whole childhood. Her using this word multiple times in the closing is powerful. It shows the discomfort of the word and calls out the racism in D.C. The reader can feel the anger in the tone of the writing, as well as reiterating the point to provide importance. The reader can see the build up from the sisters trip, to the hotel, then to the ice cream shop. Lorde’s writing style is very successful since she purposely stresses the central point of her essay. Writing choices such as this one makes a clear point to the audience. In the end her choice of words to finish her essay is very impactful and strong.
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Post by Keyton M. on Aug 28, 2022 16:20:00 GMT -5
Lorde uses the adjective "white" six times in her final paragraph. She chose to say this to show the way that she is forced to look at life. When she is forced to face these racist encounters it forces her to look at the colors white and black more than we could understand. When she went into the ice cream parlor, she should be thinking of what ice cream she wanted, when she was walking through Washington D.C., she should have been just enjoying herself; the racism that she is forced to face makes her have a great emphasis on color and this last paragraph shows it.
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Post by Beckett Moon on Sept 1, 2022 14:25:35 GMT -5
Lorde used the word "white" six times throughout the final paragraph of the essay. She probably used the word so liberally to drive home her message about the discrimination that she had to deal with. I think the repetition makes it clear just how tailored the world was towards white people. During her trip she describes it as uncomfortable and is sickened by how poorly her and her family are treated. Even though the trip was supposed to be a celebration for her, she was unwelcome and discriminated against. It reflects how the whole of the country was catered towards white men, and how ingrained racism was and is to the society. She uses the repetition to reiterate how her and her family had to face racism and discrimination on a fundamental level.
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Post by abosak on Sept 1, 2022 23:44:50 GMT -5
The adjective Lorde uses six times in the essay’s one sentence final paragraph is “white.” I think the reason she uses this word is to emphasize the difference in power between where she was moving, Washington, and herself. When she was growing up, she was a young black girl that lived a very protected upbringing from racism, which caused her to feel very out of place when she arrived in New York. Her parents were obviously very concerned about their child and how she would react to racism and tried their hardest to shield her from that truth, but now that she is in the capital, she is able to get the true experience that her parents tried so hard to keep her away from. Lorde realized from this difference of power that America was built on white freedom and people didn't care about her freedom because of her skin tone.
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Post by amygarcia on Sept 2, 2022 11:13:46 GMT -5
The adjective that Audre Lorde uses six times in the essay's one sentence final paragraph was white. I think she chose to use it so many times because the essay takes place during a time of racism that her family had to experience on their trip to Washington D.C. I think she chose to use it to show the power that white people had during this time and were treated with a lot of respect unlike colored people who were treated horribly. I also think she chose to use it so people could see how things were during a time of racism and the different treatments between white and colored people. She also used it to show how she was feeling during that time because everyone that was treated with respect was white and that was all she saw treated correctly and wanted to show that colored people weren't treated with respect and they wanted to be treated with respect because they didn't do anything wrong.
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Post by joshuakane on Sept 2, 2022 12:01:45 GMT -5
When Lorde uses the word white six times, and mentions how she was sick to her stomach in the final paragraph of Fourth of July, it has multiple levels of meaning, and at the minimum we can infer that the summer sunlight bouncing off all of the white things in Washington D.C. added to the summer heat that day, which would make me sick to my stomach too. When you look at it at the next level in the context of the segregation and racism of the south at the time, we can see that she was really referring to how only white things fit in to this picture of Washington D.C. in the 50s. Lorde's choice of using the word over and over again adds more punch each time the word is repeated, and it can give us an idea of how she probably felt on that trip being repeatedly hit with all of these white things.
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Post by sophocles on Sept 2, 2022 13:16:35 GMT -5
Audre Lorde uses the adjective "white" six times in the last paragraph of Fourth of July. Lorde's family was in Washington D.C. on the Fourth of July, supposedly the capital of freedom on the day of America's freedom. However, the ever prevalent racism that dictated black people's lives in America sept through the blinds of an innocent child. She describes this day as the day her childhood ended. When she continued to say white, she expressed that Washington D.C. was a pillar of freedom, only for white people. Lorde noticed the white streets, the white monuments, and the white marble which held the white ice cream she was never allowed to have. She was enraged when on a day where she was supposed to be celebrating America's freedom, she didn't have the rights to have ice cream.
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Post by Emma Ramos on Sept 2, 2022 19:44:50 GMT -5
Lorde says "white" 6 times in the last paragraph of the story. She proceeds to say that because after experiencing what happened to her ruined what she had in mind for her trip, she was excited to enjoy it with her family and was crushed for her pride of being who she was. What she realized was something that she couldn't expect for her to happen, she was upset with how people could harshly be treated and seen differently when doing nothing but ordering some ice cream. I think she feels disappointed, saddened, and discouraged. This made her feel a way she didn't know she could be aware of and really changed her mindset.
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Post by Max on Sept 2, 2022 20:30:47 GMT -5
In the final paragraph of “The Fourth of July” Lorde uses the adjective “white” six times. The use of the adjective explains the details of the city and how they represent freedom and democracy in Washington D.C. I believe that she chose to do this to show how unsafe and angry she felt in the surrounding environment, and how her views on America had changed. Before she had gone to the ice cream parlor with her family, she didn’t know the truth about racism in America. After her family was kicked out of the ice cream parlor, she felt her innocence had been stripped away. She was extremely angry about what had happened, and that her parents had avoided explaining it to her for so long.
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Post by Yatzari Diaz on Sept 2, 2022 21:23:33 GMT -5
Lorde uses the adjective "white" several times in the last paragraph. She uses white to describe the ascepts of her visit. For instance how the white waitress told her and her family that they weren't able to eat at the ice cream shop. It was for the reader to understand how she felt out of place.
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Post by sidd on Sept 2, 2022 21:37:51 GMT -5
Lorde uses the adjective “White” in the final paragraph and sentence of the essay. Throughout the piece “Fourth of July” she talks about her experiences of growing up and living in a white world. As a black child through things such as her sister not being able to fully participate on class trips, being discriminated against in public spaces, or having confusing family discussions that were meant to aid and warn her about the perceived nature of white people in America. However, she combined those events to describe her childhood as what can be summed up as “white" hence why she used the word so many times. As the word was a summary of the story she had told about herself and her experiences, with the fact that those events and or items were white and that those were ultimately the things she carried with her to describe a portion of her life.
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Post by kflanagan on Sept 5, 2022 11:07:20 GMT -5
In the one-sentence final paragraph of Lorde's essay "Fourth of July", she uses the adjective white six times. By using this word repeatedly, Lorde stresses how the exposure to the pure racism that Washington D.C. poses to the narrator and her family impacts the narrator and her views on not only herself and her family but the American society surrounding her and the role she plays in it. To start her essay, Lorde goes into detail about the food the family packs for their train ride. The narrator seems to be excited to have such a spread but soon comes to realize the reasoning behind their large selection of food, that being the reality that black people were not allowed in dining cars--which her mother had failed to mention. Throughout the essay, the narrator comments on looking up at monuments in D.C. and includes how they are bright and light colored. This acknowledges the slow realization the narrator is experiencing throughout the trip and how the shelter her mother tries to provide for her from the reality of American societal racism impacts her time spent in the capitol and her reaction to the damaging experience at the ice cream parlor. Therefore, Lorde puts emphasis on the fact that her trip felt "white" to show her devastation in reaction to her realization of American racism.
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Post by will m on Sept 5, 2022 22:06:25 GMT -5
Lorde uses the adjective "white" six times in the essay's final paragraph. This one sentence final paragraph describes her distaste for her surroundings and her experience at the ice cream parlor. The injustice she felt made her feel as if she was betrayed by her country. By repeating the word "white", she is clearly conveying why she feels the way that she does. When she says that the "white stone monuments" made her feel sick, she is elaborating how even Washington D.C, which is supposed to represent the greatness of our country, still suffers from the issue of racism. By repeating the word "white" so many times, she is adding a lot of emphasis to the word, and your attention is very focused on that word, which clearly conveys her point and also the root of her issues.
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Post by alliefried on Sept 6, 2022 20:43:53 GMT -5
Lorde uses the adjective white six times throughout the final - one-sentence - paragraph. I think she chose to use this adjective because she was writing about a time when blatant racism and white supremacy was still very much a mainstream ideal. While talking about her trip she builds up to the point where they go into and ice cream parlor to cool off and splurge on a tasty treat, however they are refused service if they were to want to eat in the air conditioned space. While she explained how she felt wronged the final paragraph is similar to what a rant in a verbal discussion would be like. Especially emphasizing how white people were favored over black people in general at the time. In a verbal discussion, when people are mad at something they tend to repeat it multiple times to emphasize how strongly they feel about it. In this last paragraph I think Lorde is emphasizing how strong her anger was towards white people when she took her trip to the capital that year -- how it became a massive disappointment because white people couldn't accept having black people as part of their society.
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