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Post by Kierra Walker on Aug 19, 2022 18:08:51 GMT -5
The dramatic part of the story is when Lorde's family goes to the ice cream parlor but is kicked out of the establishment solely because they are black. She writes it in a way that you see it how she saw it when she was a kid but also from her adult perspective. It is an innocent, happy story about her going out with her family but then you see the racism. Moments like these are what forced Lorde out of her oblivious, childish way of thinking and made her realize what was actually going on with her and her family. This also happens when Lorde and her family are getting ready to board a train and must pack up their food because colored people were not allowed to dine on the train. It shows us what life was truly like for her and her family and how innocent she was when it happened. The intensity of the moment is developed by portraying past events in a colorful way.
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Post by sam on Aug 20, 2022 19:57:31 GMT -5
The climax moment in this text is when Lorde and her family are not able to dine in in Washington D.C, The entire story is told from the perspective of an innocent child dealing with segregation and racism in multiple ways. The story was so intriguing and captivating because the reader sees an innocent child being treated horrible and people as a whole feel much more strongly when someone who is completely innocent is being mistreated, for example people feel very strong emotion to children who are mistreated and animals because both are so innocent and people have to notion that they could deserve this in any way. This is reinforced by when they are denied ice cream at the ice cream shop because a kid getting ice cream is very innocent and everyone can relate to it so it connects to the reader and makes them feel more strongly to the situation.
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Post by sthompson on Aug 23, 2022 17:14:09 GMT -5
The dramatic moment in “The Fourth of July” is when Lorde and her family were racially profiled and refused service when trying to go to an ice cream diner. I think Lorde tells the story in a way that makes this dramatic moment more impactful, as she kind of nonchalantly talks about direct experiences her family has had with acts of racism and racists in general. Her parents seem to minimize and try to de-escalate these racist encounters in a way to protect Lordes innocence, and I suppose that had rubbed off on her, until that moment. Instead of just taking every racist act towards her with a grain of salt, Lorde didn’t care that everyone else had accepted that negative and uncalled for treatment, she rightfully became enraged, and saw the reality of America and it’s history. The people she had been excited to learn about, like the founding fathers, had contributed to creating a racist society that was set up for the success of none other than that of the white man.
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Post by robbie kays on Aug 24, 2022 20:06:39 GMT -5
The dramatic moment that happens to Lorde in her essay is the interaction she has with the waitress in the ice cream parlor. She uses it effectively as she describes many small incidents that continuously happen to her but she is still able to move on from them easily and ignores it eventually as they find solutions to the problem fixing it on their own way like not being allowed to go to the trip or dealing with the problem such as the sunglasses. But when they go to the parlor this moment is most effective as when they are told to leave the shop they can't find a solution to that problem leaving Lorde angry and embarrassed. She tells all of these instances of her facing racism, and at the end she finishes the story with a sour taste, connecting the root of all of her problems to a singular adjective.
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Post by dominickf on Aug 25, 2022 9:53:20 GMT -5
The dramatic moment in "The Fourth of July" is when she and her family sit at the counter in the ice cream shop and they are told they can not be there because of their race. Lorde tells the story at first with childhood innocence, talking about how it's her first experience of a lot of new things and she becomes blind to some of the racism going on around her. Due to this innocence, it is a big dramatic scene when she realizes the real racism going on right in front of her. This moment changed her whole experience of the trip and she starts writing in a way that gets rid of the innocence of before and starts to speak in a more grown-up understanding way. Lorde writes "...the ice cream I never ate in Washington D.C., that summer I left childhood was white...' (The Fourth Of July). Her whole perspective was changed by this one incident and she wanted to make sure it was important and dramatic in the story.
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Post by rubyberg on Aug 25, 2022 21:19:28 GMT -5
The dramatic moment in "Fourth of July" is when Lorde and her family were turned away at an ice cream shop due to their race. Lorde writes of many instances in this story of how either she, or someone else, faced discrimination because of their race. However, Lorde expands on the fact of how in these instances, every time they were just expected to accommodate to the racism, and not question it. In this dramatic moment at the ice cream shop, Lorde rights of how she questioned why they were being treated the way they were. She speaks of how they didn't do anything wrong, and how the rest of the trip she reflected on how white people never had to accommodate situations because of their race.
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Post by Keyton M. on Aug 28, 2022 16:32:10 GMT -5
The dramatic moment in "the Fourth of July" is what happens in the ice cream shop. When Lorde and her family make it to the capital, they are looking for a cold treat and walk into Breyer's ice cream and soda fountain. They go inside and sit at the counter, not expecting anything out of the ordinary and are ready to order some ice cream. To their surprise the waitress tells them that they aren't allowed to eat inside because of their skin color. They immediately leave and just brush it off but this is a very dramatic moment because of the build up. The main reason that they are visiting the capital is because Lorde was not allowed to go with her class because of her skin color. She is forced to confront these bad situations.
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Post by amygarcia on Sept 2, 2022 11:37:47 GMT -5
The dramatic moment in "The Fourth of July" is when Audre Lorde and her family go out to eat at the ice cream and soda fountain place and they get kicked out of it. I think this was the dramatic moment because it's the last thing that they experience racism in. She really details the scene to show us exactly step by step what happened to her and her family. I think the moment is very effective because the detail she went into describing how the moment was is to feel like the reader was experiencing the moment and to feel what they felt during that moment and the sadness and embarrassment they felt to coming to cool down and have an ice cream and being kicked out just because of the color of their skin and how they kept experiencing that everywhere they went in Washington D.C. when they were just trying to enjoy their family trip and this moment was the final moment where they were tired of having to keep experiencing this kind of treatment.
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Post by joshuakane on Sept 2, 2022 12:06:30 GMT -5
The dramatic moment/climax of "The Fourth of July" is when Lorde and her family are not allowed to dine in a Washington D.C. due to the color of her, her sisters, and her fathers skin. The story is is told from the point of view of Lorde who is in between childhood and the real-world, and we can see this in the story, as what would be an exciting adventure for a younger child is clouded by an adult view of how the world really is. In the story, Lorde's family decides to vacation in Washington D.C. because Lorde's older sister was excluded from her class trip to D.C. due to segregation, and when they arrive in Washington D.C. they are met with the reality of segregation again in the ice cream parlor. Due to the child-like aspect of the story, it adds to the impact of not being able to get ice cream, as people can relate to what it's like to be denied ice cream as a child, and it influences the reader to think about the tragic idea that a child was denied ice cream due to the color of their skin, an aspect of life which people have no control over.
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Post by sunny on Sept 2, 2022 13:27:06 GMT -5
"The Fourth of July" moves around the idea that Lorde is completely oblivious to the racism around them such as not being accepted to the school's trip because Phillis isn't white and not being allowed to eat in the dinning car with the justification that it is too expensive and that you don't know where other people's hands have been. The scenes before the dramatic point create at atmosphere of a happy family spending their day out in the sun looking at monuments; the heat calls for a need to cool off at Breyer's. The dramatic point in the essay is being denied service, as the family walks out Lorde knows they hadn't done anything wrong, their response to her question is a "guilty silence". Her trip no longer seems like a graduation present and the essay ends with everything being white and Lorde being sick to her stomach.
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Post by Emma Ramos on Sept 2, 2022 18:02:47 GMT -5
The Dramatic moment in "The Fourth of July" is when Lorde goes to visit in Washington D.C to the Breyers ice cream and soda fountain, her and her family sat down to order some ice cream, but were told that they couldn't eat inside. Before the trip her mom had packed lunch while on their way for the trip on the train, Lorde wanted to eat in the dining car but her mom kept making excuses about not to go, both of her parents didn't really explain to her the racism going on in which this story takes place. This made Lorde very confused because she was told to never trust white people but didn't have an explanation why. Later after this moment happened she realized how people treated them, it made her very angry and changed her mindset of the way she saw things.
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Post by sidd on Sept 2, 2022 21:39:16 GMT -5
The dramatic moment in “Fourth of July'', is when Lorde and her family visit an ice cream shop in Washington, D.C., where she and her family go for a quick snack of vanilla ice cream, which ends in them being asked to leave by the waitress and Lorde not understanding why. However, what makes this a dramatic moment in the story is how she described the event. She used words such as “indignant” and “marched” to not only describe what she felt was unfair but also by using an adjective that is known for that time to have a powerful meaning. However, in addition to using descriptive language she also followed up the situation by mentioning how she tried to contribute to the discussion surrounding discrimination by writing poems about democracy and freedom. In addition to that she also ended up writing to the President about the event.
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Post by will m on Sept 5, 2022 22:32:01 GMT -5
The dramatic moment in Lorde's story telling is her experience in the ice cream parlor. Her family being told they cannot be served inside at the establishment is the most major conflict in the short story, and it fuels her frustration for the rest of the short story. She sets up this moment by building up to this point with a lot of development about the importance of her trip and the excitement that she had for it. There were many little things that she mentions that hint at racism in America. There is also historical evidence provided to further the point of how racism affected black people. All of these things lead up to her incident in the ice cream parlor which ultimately ruins the trip for her, and her trip that is supposed to celebrate the "end of her childhood" is ruined by racist event that she experienced.
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