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Post by Ava Ritenour on Aug 19, 2023 0:18:35 GMT -5
The dramatic moment in "The Fourth of July" by Andre Lorde was when her and her family were told they could not dine in the ice cream palor they stopped in at the end of the essay. To make this short story so carefully constructed, Lorde uses forshadowing and build up to the event by describing other experiences she and her family had with racism. Through imagery on the train, she sets up a way to talk about how her mother made excuses so she was unaware about the carts being segregated. She spoke a lot throughout the essay on how her parents had made excuses and tried to hide the reality of how oppressive America really was. Her being more unaware of the racism going on in the country is what made the event at the end the dramatic moment. She builds up on the experiences until the moment comes where it is definite and harsh. She also uses diction to emphasize the word white so much in the last paragraph to stress not only the intensity of that moment, but also the realization and anger she felt from it.
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Post by meadowmeskil on Aug 19, 2023 15:20:03 GMT -5
In "The Fourth of July" by Lorde, I think that the dramatic moment is when Lorde and her family go into an ice cream shop during their trip, but are unable to get or eat any ice cream in the shop because of the color of their skin. Lorde sets up this and the story by describing other experiences with racism that the family has gone through such as eating on the train dining car and not being able to go on the school trip. This is also set up by Lorde still not knowing that this was racism, which builds up more to when she finally realizes that the family experienced racism in the ice cream shop, making that the turning point for Lorde after all of the other experiences. This is also set up by the repitition of "white" that is used in the last few sentences of the story.
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Post by eidenjonaitis on Aug 20, 2023 14:20:28 GMT -5
In Audre Lorde's "The Fourth of July", she informs the reader that the story she has laid out truly happened to her, and then proceeds to lay it out like any short story. There is a build-up to the most dramatic event in the story. In this story, Lorde's climax would be her family being kicked out of the ice cream parlor, unable to be served due to the segregation laws in that time period. Lorde tells her story by talking about what landed her family on the trip to the capitol, sprinkling in some of the unjust things of the trip (like her sister being unable to be housed in the hotel her white classmates were staying at) to settle on the right time period of the story. Then, saying that her father was taking them to the parlor as a treat just for them to be forced to vacate it makes the whole thing seem just terrible.
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Post by Jayde Hayworth on Aug 20, 2023 18:26:32 GMT -5
The dramatic moment in “The Fourth of July” by Audre Lorde, is when Lorde and her family went to get ice cream at a diner in Washington D.C. and faced racial discrimination. Lorde was able to make the moment especially effective by how she spent the beginning of the story foreshadowing the racial discrimination she and her family had previously faced until it precipitously comes out in the end; she explains in detail how her parents used to ignore or brush off minor acts of racism, trying to protect Lorde from it. One way she helps build up the dramatics is by going in detail about what she was told, and what really happened. She wasn’t allowed to eat in the dining car because of her skin tone; her sister wasn’t allowed to go on a trip to Washington D.C. because they were staying in an all-white hotel; and throughout her time in Washington she noticed how everything seemed more “white.” The reason she alludes to this situation so much is to show how her perspective changed on her nation.
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Post by Zoe Reeves on Aug 21, 2023 15:30:16 GMT -5
The dramatic moment was when Lorde and her family were asked to leave an ice cream diner on vacation in Washington D.C. solely because of their skin color. Her story led up to this moment, beginning the story with a happy tone, expressing excitement about going on a vacation, but slowly changed to confusion and frustration when they were discriminated against at the diner. In the beginning, Lorde describes that she was supposed to stop being a child, which foreshadows this climax scene. This incident made her more mature, as she realized that racism and discrimination is real in America. This was especially eye opening for Lorde since she was very sheltered from the racism and hate in America growing up. Lorde described incidents in her story where she was discriminated against- but didn’t realize because her parents shielded it. For example, Lorde wrote how she was excited to eat in the dining car, and instead of her mother telling her the truth, she lied by saying “dining car food cost too much”. This climax scene in the story also led her to the realization that not only did her parents not discuss racism with her, but they rather block it out without addressing the incident at the restaurant. She explains how her parents feel that they should have anticipated it, and avoided it, which frustrated Lorde more because rather than questioning the discrimination, they accepted it. This incident caused her to leave her childhood and innocence behind.
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Post by Maya Alvarez on Aug 21, 2023 19:51:14 GMT -5
The gripping moment from Audre Lorde's,"The Fourth of July",was when she and her family experienced racial discrimination at Breyer's ice cream, and were asked to leave. What had led up to this moment was starting the story off happily that she and her family were going to Washington D.C. But then along the way she reveals unsettling details about the trip. Starting with why they are going. Her sister, Phyllis was originally going to D.C. for a graduation trip but being the only black girl in the class, she was rejected from the excursion because the hotel is for whites only. So instead her family is going for the Fourth of July. They drive down from New York with a car full of food, Lorde enjoys it, but wants to stop to eat in the dining car. Her mom says no with a cover-up answer of it being too expensive, but in reality she doesn't want to tell her that they are not allowed to eat there because they are black. At the Lincoln Memorial, they visited where Marian Anderson sang because the Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.), refused her due to being a woman of color. Lorde becomes more aware of her life as a black girl living in the USA, due to the recent events, especially since her parents have shielded her from the racism and discrimination. Finally after a long day, her family stops in for ice cream and sits at the counter waiting to be served, but the waitress says she will not allow them to be in the store because they are a white-only restaurant. This was the turning point for her because she was angry. Angry at her parents for shielding her and acting like nothing happened, angry at the white monuments, white heat, and white people, and angry at how in the capital of the Land of the Free, she was not free. She matured and was not innocent or blinded anymore.
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Post by Lily Longtin on Aug 23, 2023 12:39:31 GMT -5
In the essay "The Fourth of July" Audre Lorde tells the story in a way that makes the moment the waitress kicked her and her family out of the ice cream store the most dramatic moment. This part of the story has the greatest impact on the readers and on Lorde as she lived through it. After this happened, she began to see things differently, she felt out of place and like she didn't belong. Throughout the whole story she is hidden from the acts of racism by her parents, she thinks they don't eat in the dining car because it is too expensive when it is because she is not white. When the waitress kicked her out purely because of her race she is no longer protected from the discrimination her family deals with on a daily basis. That moment changed her whole perspective on the world she lived in and how discrimination would always affect her.
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Post by Andrew on Aug 24, 2023 9:53:37 GMT -5
In "The Fourth of July" by Audre Lorde, the dramatic moment in the story is when her family gets refused service in the ice cream shop because of their skin color. Lorde leads up to this dramatic moment by writing about her family's experience traveling to Washington D.C. She talks about how her family was refused service on the train car and how her sister wasn't allowed to go on the school trip because the hotel that her classmates were staying at wouldn't allow her to stay. In both of these instances Lorde didn't fully understand what was happening. However, in the dramatic moment at the end of the story when her family wasn't allowed to order food, she became aware of the discrimination that that they were facing.
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Post by Leland Wagner on Aug 26, 2023 21:30:12 GMT -5
The dramatic moment in "Fourth of July" by Audre Lorde is during the family's trip to Washington D.C. when they stopped for ice cream, during the stop they were denied due to the color of their skin. This moment is conveyed well due to the storytelling from Lorde's point of view and how she felt in the moment and how Lorde's parents went about the situation. Though her parents decided to not talk about the situation and instead angered themselves on how they should've been more prepared and seen the incident coming. Throughout the essay Lorde slowly builds up to this racist event where she finally realizes what's happening. With other racist events its either been hidden from her like with what happened in the dining car or she just ignored it. But from the beginning of her childhood she is told to not trust white people but she is sheltered from racial discrimination.
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Post by stephanie1garcia on Aug 27, 2023 16:33:11 GMT -5
The dramatic moment in "The Fourth of July" is when Lorde and her family are going into the ice cream shop to cool off, and later on and are not allowed to dine-in (only take-out). Lorde sets this story up by providing previous racist experiences that her family has gone through, such as her sister not being able to stay in the hotel during her school trip, and not being allowed into railroad dining cars. Lorde also sets this up by adding her age and how she's told to "stop being a child", this late on shows how Lorde is growing up by realizing the discrimination against colored people.
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Post by sayanij on Aug 27, 2023 19:49:49 GMT -5
The dramatic moment in “The Fourth of July '' was when Lorde and her family were unable to dine in at an ice cream shop in Washington D.C because of the color of their skin. I believe this is the dramatic moment of the story because it is when Lorde experiences first-hand racial discrimination for the first time. Lorde sets up this part of the story by telling how her parents hid her from actual reality where certain places were segregated. One example of this is when they were on the railroad train on the way to Washington D.C when Lorde said she wanted to eat in the dining car part of the train. Her mother refused to let her because she always told her that it was too expensive and you never know whose hands were touching that food but in reality the dining car wasn't allowed to black people.
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Post by sasha on Aug 31, 2023 7:26:31 GMT -5
I think the dramatic moment that Lorde built the story up to was when her and her family got declined by the ice cream parlor because of the color of their skin. I think she made the moment especially effective when she used the adjective "white" many times in the last paragraph to show how her looking different made her not able to get the same experience in Washington D.C. as a white person would. I think she does a good job at pointing out the differences in experiences and what they could or couldn't do compared to other people.
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Post by Nevin on Sept 1, 2023 18:48:58 GMT -5
In Audre Lorde's "The Fourth of July" the dramatic moment came at the end of her story when her and her family went to a ice cream shop. In the ice cream shop her and her family are told to leave because of the color of their skin. The build up to this moment was Lorde telling stories about her past experiences and how she lived and viewed her life, about her innocence coming up to this point. The ice cream shop incident highlighted the time in her life when she realized she had to grow up because her and her family would be discriminated against everywhere they went. The ice cream shop moment was especially effective because the story leading up was about the little things she was picking up on and then in the ice cream shop was were it all came together.
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Post by Addison Popp on Sept 1, 2023 20:08:24 GMT -5
In Audre Lorde's "The fourth of july". The "dramatic" moment was when they were in Washington D.C. They were told that they can buy food and benefit their franchise but can't sit in the store next to all the white people. She was confused and distraught and her family was silent while she was left with her anger and confused feelings. It was her first time ever experiencing such blatant racism like this and she didn't know how to react or feel but she knew she was mad. This part of the essay had so much emotion and feeling. It was the most emphasized.
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Post by emma on Sept 1, 2023 22:08:10 GMT -5
The dramatic moment in "The Fourth of July," by Audre Lorde, was when her family and her were not allowed to dine in and eat ice cream at the restaurant, but are instead offered the option of take out due to the color of their skin. Lorde sets this scene up in a way that makes it especially effective because throughout the story she had only been talking about how she was now graduating and had been told that once she does, that will be the time when she finally grows up, to then explaining the train ride to D.C. and how all she did was eat the whole way there, explaining how she had really wanted to eat dinning car, but was told from her mother that it was too expensive, not realizing at the time that she actually wasn't allowed to eat there because she wasn't white, but her parents had been guarding her from this her whole life. Both of these events really setting up the "dramatic moment" of the story to then being in the diner and really realizing that this was her "growing up" moment, when she was no longer able to be shielded from the discrimination that she faced.
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