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Post by Lily Longtin on Aug 23, 2023 12:31:53 GMT -5
In the essay "The Fourth of July" the author Audre Lorde uses the adjective "white" six times in the final paragraph. I think she uses the word so many times to emphasize how much that act of kicking her and her family out of the store really affected her and her views on the world. Everything is white and that is all society accepts in white people and white culture. Everything she was around on this trip to Washington DC for her graduation present was white, everything surrounding her, and she wasn't allowed to enjoy any of it. She described that after this interaction with the waitress the whole trip made her sick to her stomach, she felt out of place and like she didn't belong.
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Post by Jisela Albarran-Trujillo on Aug 25, 2023 12:42:20 GMT -5
In ¨The Fourth of July¨ by Andre Lorde, Lorde uses the adjective ¨white¨ six times to emphasize her frustration with American racism. Throughout the story she describes the treatment she received from everyone and everywhere. At the ice cream parlor they wouldn't let them stay in and eat they could only take there food to go. Whenever Lorde tried to question her mom or her family on why they get treated differently than others, no one would answer they would just remain silent. She alone had to figure out what racism was throughout there trip. She noticed how everything was white all her surroundings, all the people, and even the ice cream she never ate. Lorde noticing how all her surroundings where white and the people working where white, made her realize that it was a nation for white people to support only white people. Lorde repeatedly used the word ¨white¨ to catch the readers attention and have us understand how she felt towards racism.
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Post by tatummielke on Aug 26, 2023 22:52:39 GMT -5
In “The Fourth of July” by Audre Lorde, Lorde uses the adjective “white” six times in the essay's final paragraph. Lorde uses this adjective so many times to express her frustration with racial discrimination, now that she has experienced racial discrimination as a child, she sees discrimination everywhere she goes. As she describes her experience in the capital of the U.S, A country founded on the belief that everyone is equal, it is overwhelmingly white, from the color of the pavement to the color of stone monuments. This represents not only just the looks of the place she was in, but also the underlying idea that this country was made to only serve its white citizens, after facing the discrimination inside the ice cream shop, Lorde begins to connect her experiences from the trip. The white pavement, the white light, the white people, it all started to make sense that no matter how someone displays the term “equal”, there will always be discrimination no matter what.
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Post by stephanie1garcia on Aug 27, 2023 16:50:07 GMT -5
In "The Fourth of July" Lorde uses the adjective "white" 6 times in the last paragraph of the essay. I think that Lorde uses "white" that many times to show how she frustrated she is with racial discrimination, and how things are unfair during her trip that was supposed to be super fun. Throughout the essay she mentions how her mom likes to ignore things that she doesn't like such as racism. Towards the end of the essay Lorde realizes how lots of things are the "white" such as the pavement, the counter, the heat, stone, and the waitress. She also mentions that "the summer I left childhood was white" due to her experiencing racism in the ice cream shop.
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Post by sayanij on Aug 27, 2023 19:34:25 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 she chose to use this adjective so many times in the last paragraph so she could dramatically highlight her rage and hate for racism and discrimination. I also think she chose to use the word “white” so many times to describe how negatively the ice cream shop incident affected her whole Washington D.C trip. Because Lorde was young at the time and it was her first time being discriminated against, all she could think about was the “white” in things such as the waitress, counter, ice cream, heat, pavement, and monuments. She also says in the last paragraph, “the summer I left childhood was white” which to me displays the trauma that trip caused to her innocence from being exposed to how life was actually like back then.
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Post by edmundocg on Aug 27, 2023 22:00:43 GMT -5
In the concluding paragraph of "The Fourth of July" by Audre Lorde, the adjective "silent" appears six times. Lorde employs this repetition to vividly depict the silence she observes during the fireworks display on Independence Day. By using "silent," she emphasizes the stark contrast between the celebration's dazzling spectacle and her own silenced experience. This repetition serves as a poignant reflection of the theme throughout the essay: the silence that surrounds and suppresses voices of Black Americans. Lorde's description of the "silent night" encapsulates the unspoken racial tensions and histories that remain hidden beneath the surface of the festive occasion. The repetition of "silent" amplifies the discomfort she feels in this setting, revealing the deep-seated racial inequalities that persist even amidst the grandeur of the event. By employing the word "silent" repeatedly, Lorde creates a rhythmic and powerful cadence, drawing readers' attention to the unsettling quietude that envelops her. This repetitive choice underscores her alienation and points to the broader issue of silencing voices that challenge the dominant narrative. Lorde's deliberate use of repetition compels readers to confront the weight of this silence and its implications for marginalized communities, making her message more resonant and impactful.
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Post by Kelly Garcia on Aug 30, 2023 19:39:16 GMT -5
In “The Fourth of July” by Audre Lorde, Lorde uses the descriptive adjective of white six times at the end of the essay. Throughout the entire essay she has no clue why she is being treated differently than everyone else because her parents never told them the truth of racism at the time and believed it was the best to protect them from the realities of race in America. The word repetition of “White” is an example of white supremacy in America. That suggests that they are different and set apart from any other family by the color of their skin and will be treated differently. For example they were asked to leave the dinner because they weren't allowed to eat there because of the color of their skin. She urges that the celebration of the Fourth of July is all about white people and that there is no meaning of freedom to black people in Washington.
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Post by rubydrzick on Aug 30, 2023 21:26:11 GMT -5
in the story "the fourth of july" by audre lorde, lorde uses the adjective "white" six times throughout telling her story. i think lorde decided to use this word to try and portray the discrimination and bad memories she has associated with the word white. i think the word white for her has a lot of background like how in her childhood she faced a lot of discrimination at a very young age and how many traumatic memories he has stems from the word white. throughout the story lorde explains how she faced racism in dc and that she was not used to it nor was she educated about it, by the end of the story you can tell that lorde is frustrated and repeating the word white can make the reader/audience wonder what meaning or means are behind it.
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Post by Sasha on Aug 31, 2023 7:19:13 GMT -5
Lorde uses the adjective "white" 6 times. I think she used it so many times to show what it feels like to have something constantly pointed out to give a view into her reality. I think she was expressing how much she felt out of place or like she was put out of place when she didn't want to be, so she was doing it back to emphasize it.
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Post by JaNyiah Lawler on Sept 1, 2023 11:06:03 GMT -5
In “The Fourth of July” by Audre Lorde, she uses the adjective “white” six times in the last paragraph. The repetition is one that is used to send a message about racism, purposeful and subconscious, and is also used to convey her anger over the discrimination she’s faced. She says that the waitress who kicked them out was white, and the counters of the ice cream store, and the ice cream itself was white, references the specific incident in which she experienced firsthand racism. Beyond this, though, she goes on to mention the white pavement and white stone monuments, which I believe is a kind of symbolic representation of how at this point, racism and white supremacy is ingrained into our society, so much so that you can see it all over our country’s capital. The majority of the monuments in Washington D.C. are of white people, after all, and the majority of the government is white, and even today anywhere you look you see hints of racism staining the United States.
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Post by Zelda Molitor on Sept 1, 2023 12:13:16 GMT -5
In the final sentence of "Fourth of July", Audre Lorde uses the adjective "white" six times. I think that she chose to use this adjective six times to emphasize her realization and frustration with racial discrimination. Although her first big realization of racial discrimination was when her and her family where not allowed to eat inside of the ice cream parlor in Washington DC, she had be experiencing or witnessing discrimination long before that. For example, her family not being allowed to eat in the dining cars, and her sister not being able to go on her class trip because she wouldn't be allowed to stay in the hotel. However, her parents had never given attention to these things and always brushed them off so Lorde didn't really realize the discrimination they were facing. Until, she came to the realization and everything seemed to hit her, which caused her to see all off the white around her, which seemed to make she frustrated, which is conveyed through her using the adjective "white" six times in the last sentence of the essay.
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Post by Nevin on Sept 1, 2023 18:43:03 GMT -5
In "The Fourth of July" by Audre Lorde, Lorde uses the adjective " white" six times in the essays final paragraph when describing the waitress, the counter, the ice cream, the heat, the pavement, and the stone monuments. She used the adjective six times to emphasize the level of discrimination that her and her family were facing by doing everyday things like traveling, going to restaurants, staying in hotels. She chose to use it so many times to show that she had to grow up faster that day because she realized that she would be discriminated against for her skin color everywhere she went. She had lost her innocence to the world around her after this incident in Washington D.C. because of the injustices and unfairness against her and her family everywhere they went. The discrimination against her and her family made her sick and for that she used the adjective six times to emphasize how it made her feel to call attention to the reader.
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Post by Addison Popp on Sept 1, 2023 19:51:35 GMT -5
Audre Lorde used the word White in her essay “the fourth of july”. In my opinion she used that word so many times to show the realization and suffocating feeling that whiteness is rooted in everything. She saw blatant racism for the first time with no warning or formal understanding. She always knew a little bit and saw it because white supremacy is everywhere but she was sheltered by her family. That realization was the mark of the end of her innocence. She was highlighting the importance of that situation in her life by writing white 6 times and emphasizing the color.
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Post by Zachary Alexander on Sept 1, 2023 21:08:29 GMT -5
Lorde uses the adjective 'white' six times in the final paragraph of "The Fourth of July" because it emphasized how prevalent the issue was during her summer vacation. At first, she felt she was only admiring the scenery and basking in the sunlight that felt so much more vibrant than from home. After the dismissive interaction where her family was refused indoor service, Lorde's internalized anger made her realize how much bigger of an issue racism was at the time. She felt overwhelmed by the sense of unjustified inferiority, and her vacation was soured by the fact that people of color weren't considered equals. It doesn't help that her parents wouldn't directly explain the waitress's behavior and simply accepted that they were denied service. The world she lived in was dominated by white people, and even if she didn't know why this was the case, she knew it upset her.
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Post by cavan on Sept 1, 2023 21:20:27 GMT -5
The adjective used six times in the final paragraph in the essay "The Fourth of July" is "white". Audre Lorde used this word over and over to show the racism in the air. America at the time was very discriminated, and blacks were treated much differently than whites. Therefor the word white being used is to show the harsh treatment, and inequality that was projected onto Lorde. Everything that she couldn't have in life was white, white was used to show superiority.
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