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Post by georgia on Jul 28, 2023 17:31:46 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. I agree that Lorde uses the word “white” six times in the last paragraph to emphasize her feelings after realizing the full extent of racism at the ice cream shop. Before her family trip to DC, Lorde was unaware of the discrimination affecting her life, due to her parents trying to protect her innocence and their refusal to acknowledge racism. So when she and her family are told they can’t eat at the ice cream parlor she is shocked, confused and overwhelmed and gets even angrier when the rest of her family just accept it and don’t fight against the injustice. Using the repetition of the adjective “white” to describe the objects she saw in DC helps to clearly convey the sickening emotions she experienced realizing how her country’s capital was unjustly designed to favor white people.
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Post by Jayde Hayworth on Jul 28, 2023 23:27:43 GMT -5
In "The Fourth of July" by Audre Lorde, she uses the adjective "white" six times in the last paragraph. I think she chose that word to really emphasize on how easily discrimination was, and is, built into society. After experiencing the effects of racism throughout her life, she was able to show how differently and more attentively she notices even the little things that can be or are based around race, accident or not. I believe she realizes this more later on in life because her parents didn't acknowledge racism, so she never fully understood the little things until she started to grow up; which is why it was so "eye opening" for her. I think that by her using the word white so much, it was a way that she could fully grasp onto the effects of how much racism can really make you think about things that you once would've never thought about.
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Post by Ari Johnson on Jul 30, 2023 12:43:46 GMT -5
In the last part of the essay, Lorde uses the word "white" six times to represent how her family trip to Washington was messed up because of racial discrimination. The word white was used six times to show how everything around her was in the color of the people that ruined it. After being denied access to eat inside the ice cream shop by a white woman, her family was forced to eat outside in the white light, on the white pavement, near the white monuments, and around white people. She also stated to have left her "childhood" that summer which means that her innocence was stripped away from her after finding out about the racial discrimination that her family was forced to endure over the years before that.
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Post by Alanna Brockman on Jul 30, 2023 13:11:46 GMT -5
In "The Fourth of July" Lorde uses the adjective "white" six times to give emphasis on the discrimination her family experienced throughout the essay. By repeating the word "white", Lorde speaks out against the racism that happened to her, which is something her parents were unable to do. It makes her experience real in her eyes and circles back to the idea that this was the summer that she was mature and "stopped being a child". She repeats often that she wasn't supposed to question what was happening to her and the "guilty silence" she received left her angrier and with more questions. She uses repetition to express her anger at how the words that were "white" had ruined everything that happened on her trip and the predominance of "whiteness" in America. Her realization in the last paragraph is the overwhelming predominance of "whiteness" throughout her Washington D.C. trip is what opened her eyes and answered her questions about the racism she had been experiencing.
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Post by margaretscavarda on Aug 1, 2023 13:42:00 GMT -5
In the final sentence of "Fourth of July" by Audre Lorde, she uses the adjective "white" six times. She uses the word to describe the waitress, counter, ice cream, heat, pavement, and monument. Prior to this sentence, Lorde's family was just asked to leave the ice cream parlor simply because they weren't white. All her life, Lorde had been shielded from the reality of the racist world she was living in. Her parents lied and sugarcoated every problem in her life leading up to this moment. When Lorde experiences this harsh and blatant act of racism, her eyes open wide. She suddenly begins to see the world for how it is. When she looks around, all she can see is white. White people, white food, white heat, white floors, white buildings. She sees how the country is centered around that color. She notices the lack of black representation. After this encounter, Lorde feels uncomfortable for the rest of her trip.
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Post by Leah Sparks on Aug 3, 2023 18:38:21 GMT -5
In Audre Lorde's essay called "The Fourth of July," she uses the adjective "white" six times in the one-sentence final paragraph. I think she chose to use it six times because, throughout the essay, she alludes to the whiteness of the trip she experiences. By talking about how her parents didn't allow her to wear sunglasses, she then reveals the fact that everything she saw without them was bright white. After experiencing the direct racism in the ice cream shop, she addresses what she has been alluding to throughout the entire essay. The use of the word "white" repeatedly expresses how the country they live in is white in every way. The use of the word "white" helps build the plot of the essay, by starting out with a positive tone, and by the end having a much more negative tone, which changed once she understood the racism of American culture.
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Post by Leland Wagner on Aug 4, 2023 18:36:33 GMT -5
In the passage "Fourth of July" written by Audre Lorde, she uses the adjective "white" six times throughout the final paragraph of the essay. I think that the use of "white" is added to to show the use of the word during the time of history she lived through. She used to it show her view of the world as a young child. What see saw the world as through the area around her was that it was just white. But with the repetitive usage of the word it helped convey the image of how discriminatory the age she grew up in was. This is also because during her trip to Washington D.C she experienced the first real racism, causing white people to been seen as negative in her eyes. Also in the passage Lorde mentions how her parents never explained or educated her on racism in the world and the racism that was targeted towards her.
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Post by Ellie Reeves on Aug 9, 2023 21:59:29 GMT -5
In the essay “The Fourth of July”, Lorde uses the adjective “white” six different times in the last sentence of the essay. I think she chose to use it so many times because she began looking at the color in a different light. Before this trip, Lorde never had an experience with racism head-on and therefore never took much consideration to the color. Every time previously, her parents had been able to brush off or avoid the conversation and realization altogether. However, after she was unable to get ice cream because she was not white, her parents could not shield her from the issue anymore. From then on, all she could notice was the color white. The repetition of the word allows the audience to realize the importance of this moment for Lorde. It changed her view on the world and Lorde now could not ignore the significance of the color.
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Post by odessapersephone on Aug 15, 2023 21:35:23 GMT -5
In "The Fourth of July" by Audre Lorde the final paragraph contains the adjective "White" six times. The repetition of the adjective "White" so many times in such a short section of her writing serves many purposes and has many effects. First of all, it serves the purpose of emphasizing how the world was made for white people to succeed and be front and center in their importance; it shows that the world she lives in was created white. The "white pavement", "white stone monuments, the "counter" being "white", all of this implies that if all of the surrounding are white then the inhabitants should be white as well. The listing of white things paired with the obvious fact that the narrator is not white creates a contrast that shows how unwelcome and alienated the family is in Washington (and many other places). The effect of the use of the word so many times in one sentence is to overwhelm the reader; Lorde herself was very overwhelmed by the interaction, not only because it caused her to feel such strong anger, but because it was an awakening, a raising of tinted glasses. While the use of white is to emphasize the obvious racism the family had experienced, it is also the color most associated literally with clarity, light, and enlightenment. While this interaction is terrible it is also brings Lorde to the realization that there was a lot her parents chose not to teach her about why she must never trust a white person, that there was a lot her teachers had not shared when talking about freedom. The use of white is both to show the clarity brought on by the interaction, and the systemic racism built into every American institution.
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Post by Anna Miedema on Aug 17, 2023 11:10:16 GMT -5
The adjective that Lorde uses six times in one sentence is “white” and she uses it to drag the word through the mud, something that she feels like had just been done to her in the ice cream shop. The repetition of the word is also used to portray her memory of her trip. The only thing she thinks about when it comes to her travels were the white countertops, white ice cream, and white pavements. The only thing she remembers was the harsh and pitiful discrimination in the Jim Crow era. There is no right way to end such a gut wrenching story like this, but the repetition of this one word aims to attack racism one (or six) more time(s) the same way she felt attacked on that hot summer day. Once reading this, the audience realizes that Lorde only had one thing on her mind and it wasn’t the joys of her first railroad, her family’s mobile feast, or her eighth grade graduation.
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Post by Ava Ritenour on Aug 18, 2023 23:52:05 GMT -5
In the final sentence of "The Fourth of July", Audre Lorde uses the adjective white repeatedly to emphasise how everything in America is controlled by white people, and how racism affected her and the country. At the end of the essay she is angry because she her and her family were wrongfully turned away from an ice cream parlor because of their race. Throughout the whole essay, Lorde speaks of how her and her family have experienced, and delt with racism. She mentions her mother giving excuses as to why they shouldn't eat in the dinning cart on the train, while in reality it was segregated. She also talks about how her sister couldn't go on her senior class trip to Washington D.C. because the hotel they were staying at didn't allow black people to stay there. Another example is how Lorde talks about hating the Fourth of July because of how corrupt the holiday is. By emphasising the word "white" in the last paragraph, she makes a statement on her fury of oppression and racism.
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Post by eidenjonaitis on Aug 20, 2023 14:06:18 GMT -5
In the final sentence of "The Fourth of July", Audre Lorde uses the adjective "white" six times in the span of six lines. I think that she chose to use it that many times for a couple of different reasons. One is that the literary device of repetition is used in writing to truly drive an idea or a feeling into the heart of the reader. The feeling that Lorde was trying to convey seems to be how alienated she had felt that summer, surrounded by the segregation and racist ideals of the capitol at that time. Therefore, I think she chose to use it so many times to be able to emphasize her feelings of frustration with being surrounded and ostracized as "the other".
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Post by Zoe Reeves on Aug 21, 2023 10:44:04 GMT -5
The adjective Audre Lorde used six times in the last paragraph of the essay was “white”. I think she used this word multiple times to leave the message that she is surrounded by white everywhere, not necessarily illustrating the objects she described, but the white people that surround her in society. Lorde describes how as a child she was very sheltered from the racism and hate in America by her parents, and traveling to different parts of America was really eye opening, as she saw day and day again the oppression and injustice of the country from white people. Her tone changed from excitement about going to Washington D.C. for the first time, to frustration and anger after realizing the discrimination that took place on the vacation to her and her family. She struggles to find answers and explain why things are the way they are. She begins realizing that white people surround her everywhere, especially in Washington D.C. where the capital is, and is also symbolic because the majority of people in power, such as the Supreme Court or Congress is run by white people. She notices that those who hold power in America are majority white and serve white people, and that America is a white dominated country. Lorde understands what her parents and most in American society don’t- that racism and discrimination is real, brainwashed by white American social norms.
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Post by emmagray on Aug 21, 2023 14:02:57 GMT -5
In the last paragraph off the essay "The Fourth of July" by Audre Lorde, she makes use of the term "white" six times. Almost as if it is a rule she makes use of the term several times to display the significance of the unfair treatment that her and her family had to deal with. She brings up before they moved to America, her and her family never had to transact with all these things, so it's not just a new thing that she has to go through, but her whole family who moved as well. She additionally mentions that she never gave a thought about the color of the pavement, ice-cream, or stone monuments but now it was all she could really designate and see. The specific repetition of words also makes it clear to the reader what her main point is, and truly show how she felt. Overall, she uses the term "white" to show the discrimination she experiences in America and explains how it changes her views on life.
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Post by morganhall on Aug 21, 2023 15:44:33 GMT -5
In the final paragraph of "The Fourth of July" by Audre Lorde, the adjective "white" is used to show how out of place she and people of color are made to feel in America. By the end of the story, Lorde has come to realize she is living in a white country led by white people. She is not made to feel at home because she does "not belong", whites only. When you read the last paragraph you are almost overwhelmed with the constant white description just like Lorde was overwhelmed with the racism and inequity she was born into. The "white" ice cream, "white" concrete, etc are things as a young black woman Lorde can't experience simply off the color of her skin. Although Lorde's parents tried to hide discrimination from her, she still consistently saw it and likewise tried to ignore it. At this point Lorde can no longer ignore it, and she found a way to express her discomfort so we would feel it too.
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