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Post by Ms. English on May 30, 2023 7:44:00 GMT -5
Post your answers to the discussion question here. Make sure to read the responses of those posted before you and respond directly to them when appropriate before posting your own.
What adjective does Lorde use six times in the essay's one sentence final paragraph? Why do you think she chose to use it so many times?
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Post by Marley Mickel on Jun 29, 2023 22:27:14 GMT -5
In “The Fourth of July” by Audre Lorde, Lorde uses the adjective “white” six times in the essay's final paragraph. I think Lorde chose to use the adjective “white” so many times to really emphasize discrimination. Racism is typically from white people which is why I think that Lorde decided to use “white” over and over again. Lorde pointed out in her essay that the majority of the things and people surrounding her and her family were in fact white which makes me think that maybe people are not the only racist things, in my opinion, people can discriminate, but they can also decide for an object to discriminate as well through text or color. Everything Lorde could not have was white, everything she was around was white. Could that perhaps be the superiority white people think they are, projecting themselves on objects? People's beliefs could possibly be influencing the colors of the surrounding objects which in this time could be a projection of racism.
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Post by brynn on Jul 5, 2023 11:33:54 GMT -5
In “The Fourth of July” by Audre Lorde, Lorde uses the adjective “white” six times in the essay's final paragraph. I think Lorde chose to use the adjective “white” so many times to really emphasize discrimination. Racism is typically from white people which is why I think that Lorde decided to use “white” over and over again. Lorde pointed out in her essay that the majority of the things and people surrounding her and her family were in fact white which makes me think that maybe people are not the only racist things, in my opinion, people can discriminate, but they can also decide for an object to discriminate as well through text or color. Everything Lorde could not have was white, everything she was around was white. Could that perhaps be the superiority white people think they are, projecting themselves on objects? People's beliefs could possibly be influencing the colors of the surrounding objects which in this time could be a projection of racism. If white people were projecting superiority onto objects is it on purpose or subconsciously? In the last paragraph Lorde mentions, the counter, the pavement, and the monuments were made with white materiel. These are the three objects people chose to make white but the other three objects, the ice cream, the waitress, and the white heat, no one really chose to make them that way so it makes less sense for those to be a place for white people to project superiority onto. Lorde wouldn't have had to pick white ice cream in this description, so she might have not been talking about the color of the objects necessarily but who they represented (the monuments and the waitress) and who could use them without fear (the pavement, the counter, and the ice cream). This doesn't really work for "white heat" but it could be a way to show how she didn't realize until that trip that white people had more authority in America and that it was everywhere. Another way she might have been looking at it was that she was realizing that white was everywhere just like racism and discrimination. If white people were projecting superiority is it on purpose or subconsciously?
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Post by Emerson Agnello on Jul 13, 2023 11:57:24 GMT -5
In "The Fourth of July" by Audre Lorde, she used the adjective "white" six times in one sentence. I think that Lorde used white so many times because this was one of the first times of racial discrimination that she had faced as a child, and she became furious. Now that she has experienced that, she sees the discrimination in places all around her. Before she didn't give a thought about the color of the pavement, the ice cream, or the stone monuments, but then that was all she could see. I think she used the word so many times to illustrate the effect that the event had on her. I also think that she chose to include "that summer I left childhood was white" because the color white can be seen to express innocence, and after her family had the racist encounter, her innocent look on the world disappeared because of racial discrimination.
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Post by Hailey Lowry on Jul 16, 2023 10:42:22 GMT -5
In “The Fourth of July” by Audre Lorde, she used the adjective “white” 6 times in her last paragraph. I think that she uses this adjective so many times to express her frustration with racial discrimination. This was one of the first few times she has experienced racial discrimination and now since that happened all she could think about was how everything around her was white. Like the counter, the heat, the pavement, the monument, and also the people around her. This was especially frustrating to her because her parents never talked about racial discrimination previous to this event. Even after the event, they never spoke about it and this was a very big experience in Lorde's life, so not speaking about it made it worse. Not speaking on big personal experiences like this is very unhealthy for your personal mental health and could cause internal anger and frustration.
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Post by jirehm on Jul 19, 2023 13:10:30 GMT -5
In “The Fourth of July” by Audre Lorde, Lorde uses the adjective “white” six times in the essay's final paragraph. I think Lorde chose to use the word white so many times to describe the unfair treatment she was experiencing and to emphasize the negative effects of white people had on her the whole trip alone. Throughout the essay, she talks about how her parents never really addressed racism to her and her siblings in order to protect them. Instead, Lorde had to experience racism for herself and all the “whys” her parents never explained. When she went to D.C. it was one of her first experiences of discrimination. Throughout the trip, she dealt with many cases of discrimination and racism from the dining cart to the ice cream parlor, and was ultimately over it by the end of the trip which made her sick to her stomach.
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Post by audrey on Jul 19, 2023 14:07:40 GMT -5
In “The Fourth of July” by Audre Lorde, Lorde uses the adjective “white” six times in the essay’s final paragraph. I think Lorde used this word so many times to emphasize what it was like for her as a child. I believe it was to show how she viewed the world in her own eyes as a young child, she viewed it as “white”. She didn’t see any contrast in color or fairness in the world; all she saw was white. Lorde strategically chose to use the word “white” for repetition as a rhetorical strategy in the last paragraph to help achieve her purpose of the essay. The use of this repetition helped her achieve her purpose by highlighting how much discrimination there was and how racism impacted herself and her community. The repetition of the word “white” grabs the reader’s attention, makes it more memorable for them, and allows the word to resonate in their mind.
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Post by audratate on Jul 19, 2023 18:06:40 GMT -5
In ¨The Fourth of July¨ written by Audre Lorde, she uses the adjective ¨white¨ six times in the final paragraph of the essay. I think she used the adjective ¨white¨ so many times because she grew up in a time of discrimination. She used the adjective to show us how she viewed the world that she was growing up in. She saw the world as white power and superiority, she saw it as ¨white¨ and she wanted her readers to see this, to understand how she saw the world growing up as a child. She chose the adjective ¨white¨ as a way of rhetorical writing, she used repetition. She used repetition as a way to get her point across in the essay, and she did just that. We were able to understand her emphasis on writing the adjective ¨white¨ 6 times and bring the whole story together at the same time.
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Post by aubrianna on Jul 21, 2023 11:50:28 GMT -5
In the essay “The Fourth of July” by Audre Lorde, Lorde uses the adjective “white” six times in one sentence. I believe that was to emphasize the frustration she felt, due to being racially discriminated against for one of the first times in her life, she is able to look around and see that white is all around her. Before she experienced racial discrimination, she paid no mind to the color of the pavement or the ice cream or the stone statues, but after that experience that is all she can see. I also believe that when she had said “that summer i left my childhood is white” was a way of her saying that after having that experience it made her grow up in a sense that she is now conscious of how racial discrimination is and she feels as though a part of innocence faded away that day.
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Post by elizabethb on Jul 23, 2023 13:20:19 GMT -5
In the essay "The Fourth of July" by Audre Lorde, Lorde uses the adjective "white" six times in one sentence. The emphasis on "White" is important to understanding her trip. There were several things on her trip that were white, and unlike she was use to. For example the whiteness of the pavement So, since the trip was hyped up by her parents and made up for the schools racism she thought the things they were doing and seeing were very exciting. She didn't know a lot about racism but through out the trip she had many instances where it came into play. For example when she couldn't eat in the dinning car in the train. Once she had the interaction with the white server at the ice cream parlor she realized how ridiculous it was that because of the way she looked she couldn't have ice cream. So she chose to use the word "white" six times in the last paragraph because it was the one thing that ruined her trip and innocence. She was trying the emphasize and simplify how racism affected her trip and how she views the world.
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Post by violetkn on Jul 26, 2023 12:22:33 GMT -5
In the essay "The Fourth of July" by Audre Lorde, Lorde uses the adjective "white" six times in one sentence. The emphasis on "White" is important to understanding her trip. There were several things on her trip that were white, and unlike she was use to. For example the whiteness of the pavement So, since the trip was hyped up by her parents and made up for the schools racism she thought the things they were doing and seeing were very exciting. She didn't know a lot about racism but through out the trip she had many instances where it came into play. For example when she couldn't eat in the dinning car in the train. Once she had the interaction with the white server at the ice cream parlor she realized how ridiculous it was that because of the way she looked she couldn't have ice cream. So she chose to use the word "white" six times in the last paragraph because it was the one thing that ruined her trip and innocence. She was trying the emphasize and simplify how racism affected her trip and how she views the world. I agree with the idea that she was trying to emphasize how the whiteness of everything had affected her perspective. It almost seems to me that she is trying to portray the overwhelmingness of the whiteness she experienced to the reader by repeating the word in the closing of the essay. This seems to expand on the opening paragraph by containing similar information however the word white is added in the end, signifying her new views shaped from her experiences in Washington DC. Since her parents and sisters had attempted to shield her from racism this was an eye opening experience for her and caused her to realize how the whiteness of Washington DC and how it affected her and her family outside of her vacation. I think the repetition dignified how she had her eyes opened to the reality of how white everything around her is and it almost seems to overwhelm her, causing her to feel sick at the end of her vacation.
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Post by sofia on Jul 26, 2023 15:30:17 GMT -5
In “The Fourth of July,” Lorde repeats the adjective “white” multiple times in the last paragraph to emphasize how there is no room for anyone else to be accepted into society other than white Americans. As she describes her experience in the capital of the United States, a country founded on the belief that everyone is equal, it is overwhelmingly white, from the color of the streets to the color of the stone. This represents not only just a physical description of the place she was in, but also the underlying tone that this country was made for and continues to only serve its white citizens. As her family experienced blatant racism in a diner before she made this observation, it can also represent a child growing up and understanding the harsh realities of this world. She points out how she “left childhood” after this experience and her view on the world changed. By using the repetition of the word “white,” it helps the reader truly cement the idea of how Lorde felt in Washington after her unfair experiences and a glimpse into the true existence of a non-white American in a country dominated by white people.
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Post by meadowmeskil on Jul 26, 2023 20:42:19 GMT -5
In "The Fourth of July" written by Audre Lorde, the adjective that is used six times in the final paragraph of the essay is "white". I think that she chose to use the adjective "white" so many times in order to emphasize and bring more importance and focus to the discrimination she has experienced during the trip that she went on. The use and repitition shows the racial discrimination that is experienced due to white people and the fact that white people view themselves at superior. The repitition of white shows how important being white is to other white people and in society in general. Her trip made her face more discrimination and made her realize more about discrimination, which changed her perspectives. The repitition of white also impacts the reader more by making it more clear about who affected the narrator as well as gives emotion to what the narrator is saying.
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Post by izzymorris0715 on Jul 27, 2023 21:18:17 GMT -5
In ¨The Fourth of July¨ written by Audre Lorde, she uses the adjective ¨white¨ six times in the final paragraph of the essay. I think she used the adjective ¨white¨ so many times because she grew up in a time of discrimination. She used the adjective to show us how she viewed the world that she was growing up in. She saw the world as white power and superiority, she saw it as ¨white¨ and she wanted her readers to see this, to understand how she saw the world growing up as a child. She chose the adjective ¨white¨ as a way of rhetorical writing, she used repetition. She used repetition as a way to get her point across in the essay, and she did just that. We were able to understand her emphasis on writing the adjective ¨white¨ 6 times and bring the whole story together at the same time. Though I partially agree on your outlook of her use of the adjective "white", Audre Lorde hadn't seen the world as being white when she was a child. She didn't understand racial discrimination until her experience in Washington D.C that summer. So technically growing up she didn't see the world as white. But after she was forced to mature because of the harsh reality of racism she was then more aware of white superiority. Audre Lorde uses the adjective “white” six times during the final paragraph. Lorde does this in order to emphasize the fact that after someone realizes the impact of racism on their life, they see everything differently. Not only that but she used this to prove her point: she had to grow up. She didn’t just see the white in the world but the white saw her. An example of this would be when Lorde wrote that “the ice cream that [she] never ate in Washington, D.C., that summer [she] left her childhood was white,” which also parallels a line prior which states that “[she] was supposed to stop being a child.” referencing what was said at her eighth grade graduation. These two lines are important because they show how racism influences children to grow up and realize things quicker. This repetition also shows her frustration when it comes to the influence of racial oppression on the world and her life.
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Post by Eloise on Jul 28, 2023 10:12:01 GMT -5
In the final sentence of the essay, Lorde uses the adjective “white'' six times. Although she had experiences with racism, her parents chose not to speak of it as they thought it was out of their control and decided to ignore it instead of discussing it. On the train, she was not allowed in the dining car, but her mother told her it was because the food was expensive and dirty. Her sister was not allowed to go on her senior trip because they were staying in an all-white hotel, but the nuns told her it was because she wouldn't be happy. In the moments after facing the discrimination inside the ice cream shop, Lorde begins to piece together her noticing's from her trip. The white pavement, the white light, the white people. the white monuments, and so much more allowed her to piece together a more realistic picture of the nation she lived in. Her representation of everything white, not just in the people but in the entire environment around her, represents her understanding that the government was made for white people by white people and was run to support only white people. Even in a nation where everyone is supposed to be equal, by using the word “white” multiple times, she acknowledges what her parents won’t, that discrimination is real, and the whitewashing of the nation has allowed for so much of it to happen.
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