有谁读过美国诗人audre lorde 的the fourth of july ,出自她的自传zami能否帮忙写个文,当然是英文,400字左右,站在作者的角度描写在华盛顿遭受的事及体会感想

有谁读过美国诗人audre lorde 的the fourth of july ,出自她的自传zami能否帮忙写个文,当然是英文,400字左右,站在作者的角度描写在华盛顿遭受的事及体会感想
有谁读过美国诗人audre lorde 的the fourth of july ,出自她的自传zami
能否帮忙写个文,当然是英文,400字左右,站在作者的角度描写在华盛顿遭受的事及体会感想

有谁读过美国诗人audre lorde 的the fourth of july ,出自她的自传zami能否帮忙写个文,当然是英文,400字左右,站在作者的角度描写在华盛顿遭受的事及体会感想
To make the readers concerned about the issue of discrimination which they probably know about throughout their lives,this essay gives readers a fresh view of discrimination by talking about people who are not born with the knowledge of discrimination.This lack of knowledge in discrimination,by common sense,should make those people more reactive and react in more extreme ways to discrimination.But,in fact,although “American racism was a new and crushing reality” to Lorde’s parents,who were immigrants,“they handled it as a private woe” (Lorde 568).Lorde encountered the same “new and crushing reality” in the essay because her parents “believed that they could best protect their children from the realities of race in America and the fact of American racism by never giving them name,much less discussing their nature” (Lorde 568).It is obvious that Lorde’s parents believed that it was how the new world that they have come to works.In other words,although they did not expect discrimination,they probably expected differences in society as they came to America.The more or less expected difference made them passive on the issue of discrimination.As for Lorde,the “crushing reality” was much more unexpected,because there was no change in her life for her to expect such a different reality from the reality without discrimination which she had long perceived (Lorde 568).

In her essay, “The Fourth of July,” Audre Lorde told a story that had greatly changed her views of the world. She did not exclusively include too many of her current views in the story; instead, she t...

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In her essay, “The Fourth of July,” Audre Lorde told a story that had greatly changed her views of the world. She did not exclusively include too many of her current views in the story; instead, she tried to use the events in the story to create a consensus of feelings between her and the readers. This form of writing, although seems objective because it is mainly descriptive, is actually embedded with very strong ideas. Audre Lorde did so by using several methods, such as contrasting between how things happen differently from what she expected, using natural foreshadows, telling the story from the views of an innocent child, herself in the past, and expressing some key ideas using some form of irony at the end of the essay. Overall, while the essay gives readers a feeling that it is their own choice to judge the issue, racism in the United States, described in the essay, it actually leads the readers, using the methods mentioned above, to judge the issue according to Lorde’s intend.
To make the readers concerned about the issue of discrimination which they probably know about throughout their lives, this essay gives readers a fresh view of discrimination by talking about people who are not born with the knowledge of discrimination. This lack of knowledge in discrimination, by common sense, should make those people more reactive and react in more extreme ways to discrimination. But, in fact, although “American racism was a new and crushing reality” to Lorde’s parents, who were immigrants, “they handled it as a private woe” (Lorde 568). Lorde encountered the same “new and crushing reality” in the essay because her parents “believed that they could best protect their children from the realities of race in America and the fact of American racism by never giving them name, much less discussing their nature” (Lorde 568). It is obvious that Lorde’s parents believed that it was how the new world that they have come to works. In other words, although they did not expect discrimination, they probably expected differences in society as they came to America. The more or less expected difference made them passive on the issue of discrimination. As for Lorde, the “crushing reality” was much more unexpected, because there was no change in her life for her to expect such a different reality from the reality without discrimination which she had long perceived (Lorde 568).
The beginning of the essay foreshadows the coming event and Lorde’s encounter with racism in a very natural way. By showing how much preparation Lorde’s family had done to go to Washington, the essay gives the readers a feeling that Lorde’s family might be a little disappointed because they have such a great expectation for an event that many people might consider trivial. Some detailed images described in the essay would also let the reader predict what might happen. For instance, by mentioning “I was disappointed not to have passed by the Liberty Bell,” Lorde might be implying that the coming event would show her how the liberty she had believed in did not belong to her (567).
The purpose of this essay is really to show how the liberty that did not belong to Lorde should belong to her. And, more generally, the African Americans should have their rights. By contrasting Lorde’s reaction to racism to her parents’ reaction to racism, the essay effectively represented a reality in the society: many people are accepting the discrimination as something natural.
In fact, a detailed event in the essay implies that this acceptance to discrimination might be the very cause of it. The event was about how Lorde’s family was being asked to get out of an ice cream store when they wanted to eat in the store. After the waitress asked them to go out, she said “Sorry” and “dropped her eyes looking very embarrassed” (Lorde 569). Obviously this action of the waitress can be interpreted as her being embarrassed of speaking to black people, but it can also be interpreted as she being uneasy of saying such telling them such a mean thing. The “Sorry” she said would reinforce the second interpretation. If the second interpretation is truly what Lorde wanted to imply, then the family basically had a choice at that time. But, although they might have a choice, they still left the store without even complaining. From this event, the reader may be able to infer that Lorde believe that the blacks were being discriminated against because they let the whites to do so.
Lorde’s shifted from a rather light tone to an angry one after describing this event. She used a rhetorical question to show the irony in the American society: “Hadn’t I written poems about Bataan and freedom and democracy at all?” (569). What she implied is that, as much as Americans are concerned about “freedom and democracy,” their views are limited, and the “freedom and democracy” only belong to the whites. The irony is that this way of thinking virtually contradicts the idea of democracy, which is a system seeking equal rights for all people.
By the end of the essay, Lorde again mentioned how she was angry at her parents’ passive way of handling discrimination (569). She interpreted the passive way as trying to ignore and lessen the effects of discrimination but did not exclusively mention about how her parents might have accepted the realities of discrimination, although previous texts implied that. It can probably be easily understood by the reader that her parents would not deal with discrimination in such a passive way unless they have already accepted it as the “natural” way the American society works. She then shows the reader, using her own actions, about what a person can do to fight against discrimination, such as, in this case, writing an “angry letter to the president of the United States” (570). Though the action she took was not very big in nature, it is significant in that no one else was doing it. By showing an example of what she could do as a child, she tries to motivate the people who can actually to do something effective against discrimination to take actions.
Lorde then ends her essay in a repetitive mentioning of the color “white” that she saw in her life (570). This mentioning would likely to lead the reader to realize how the use of color in her essay might have played a role in creating the image she tried to create. For the most important part, the white sun in July, according to her description, may give the reader an exhausting feeling. She makes July Fourth such an uncomfortable day to help the reader to see the irony in the American society. As much as July Fourth symbolizes “breaking free,” it is still only partial, because the freedom only belongs to the whites at that time. She makes the story more tragic by showing how a black family was not being able to enjoy the freedom they are suppose to have on the day that the United States had “broke free.”
These ironies, along with the other methods she used, made this seemingly descriptive essay full of rich and strong ideas. And, by letting the reader feel that they are on their own to judge the events in the essay, she had actually made it easier for the readers to be convinced of her views. In other words, she let the reader feel the tragedy of discrimination in person, so that they would be able to see how discrimination might be a problem.

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