emma
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Post by emma on Sept 1, 2023 21:52:51 GMT -5
In the final paragraph of "The Fourth of July," by Audre Lorde, Lorde uses the adjective "white" six times. I think Lorde uses this adjective so many times to emphasize how she felt growing up, she grew up in a white world, where nothing else was really accepted, and while she saw this as a huge problem and it enraged her, she noticed how her parents and siblings seemed to just ignore it, because it was normal. She used the rhetorical strategy of repetition to really show how she was feeling in the moment, with this repetition, she was able to grab the reader's attention and allow how she was feeling and the discrimination her family and her were facing in the moment to really sink in with the reader, and really show how what was supposed to be a trip of celebration became very memorable, but for all the wrong reasons.
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Post by mollylocke on Sept 1, 2023 22:00:36 GMT -5
Audre Lorde uses the word “white” to describe Washington D.C. multiple times in the final paragraph of her essay. She uses this adjective as a way to reiterate her new found distrust in the city and her frustration with how the trip turned out. Growing up, a sense of distrust was instilled in Lorde when it came to whiteness. She was raised to have a certain level of caution when it came to white people, though the reasons why were never explained to her. Her trip to Washington D.C. brought a life changing amount of clarity for her as she learned why whiteness was not to be trusted. In this city, which was supposed to be representative of liberty, freedom, and democracy, her and her family experienced racial discrimination. Experiencing this allowed her to realize why whiteness was not to be trusted, in turn amplifying the whiteness around her and the new sense of caution she felt due to her increased awareness of racism and injustice.
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Post by zanderligman on Sept 1, 2023 22:17:51 GMT -5
In the last sentence of "The Fourth of July," Audre Lorde uses the adjective "white," six times. I think she chose to use it so many times to show her frustration with how her family is treated in America. After getting essentially kicked out of the ice cream shop just for their skin color Lorde is very angry, not only at the waitress who kicked them out, but at everything. Her own family, all of her surroundings, the entire trip. While she's so frustrated about her families treatment she is angry at everything that is white, because white is the color of all the people who discriminate against her, and it is the color that America was built upon. So she notices how all of her surroundings are white because that is the color that she is so frustrated in.
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Post by Sophia Salinas on Sept 1, 2023 22:24:12 GMT -5
In the final paragraph of "The Fourth of July", Audre Lord uses the word 'white' repeatedly to show how she had done everything “right”. Everything about her trip had been "white", so why was she discriminated against? A particular part of the paragraph struck me in particular. "that summer I left childhood was white". The mentioning of the absence of her childhood from then on is what solidified just how harsh discrimination can be. The moment she realized why people treated her and her family differently was a jarring moment for her, as it would be for any child who discovered that the reason they received worse treatment was just because of their own skin color. Since her parents always jumped around the issue of race and discrimination she never really got to know how it would feel until she felt it first-hand. The repetition of the adjective emphasized the utter disbelief and hurt Audre Lorde experienced.
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Post by krystalin on Sept 2, 2023 11:05:34 GMT -5
In the final paragraph in "The Forth of July", Lorde uses the adjective "white" six times. I think she used the adjective "white" because she grew up in a time when people were discriminating and was racist. The use of the word shows racial discrimination due to white people by them thinking that are superior. She had experienced direct racism at the ice cream shop, they were denied accessto eat inside by a white woman, her family was forced to eat outside where everything was white like the "white" ice cream, "white" concrete, and a lot more things. She had stated to have left her "childhood" that summer which means her innocence was wipped away from her away from her after experiencing racial discrimination on their trip to Washington D.C. Even tho her parents tried to hide discrimination from her, she still saw it everywhere and tried to ignore it. She found a way to share her experience of how it changes her views on life and a way that we can feel it too.
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Post by khanielsmith on Sept 5, 2023 19:44:12 GMT -5
In "Fourth of July", Lorde uses the word "white" six times. I believe she chose to use it repeatedly to intensify the impact of the discrimination that she experienced while growing up. By constantly bringing up the word it brings attention to the power influence of privilege and systemic racism that exists in primarily white demographics. It shows as a way to challenge and be upfront with the discrimination and structures that continue with white supremacy and highlighting the tensity as a black woman in america. through the repeating of the word "white", she disorders the notion of a singular, homogeneous american identity, confidentially pushing her own perspective and taking away from societal expectations.
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Post by Imani Hobson on Sept 6, 2023 20:37:02 GMT -5
In “The Fourth of July” by Audre Lorde, Lorde uses the adjective “white” six times in the essay's last paragraph. I think she used the adjective six times because of how upset she was from the racial discrimination she faced. I also think she did this to really emphasize and show how she felt as a child that experienced this and how much whiteness there is around her, even the materialistic things around her. The repetition makes the word stick with the reader so they will keep that with them as they read the rest of the passage. The repetition also shows how things stick with you when you go through something traumatic. When she experienced this for the first time and actually realized it was racial discrimination she realized that the other stuff her parents or other people around her lied to her about was also racism and it changed her perspective.
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