nne Bradstreet, "The Prologue": correct answers says that some writing is too superior for her. Simple in her skill. Talks about weakness and brokenness and nothing being able to fix it. Says the greeks were hiding the way they really felt about women. If she did good men would call it a cheat or ...
nne Bradstreet, "The Prologue": correct answers says that some writing is too superior
for her. Simple in her skill. Talks about weakness and brokenness and nothing being
able to fix it. Says the greeks were hiding the way they really felt about women. If she
did good men would call it a cheat or lie. Asks for people to at least read her work but
she is not expecting a reward from it. Will continue to write.
Hannah Webster Foster, The Coquette: correct answers written in letter
form/epistolary; Eliza is the main character her fiance dies and then she has two suitors,
her family wants her to go with the stable one but she finds it boring, kind of self-
centered. Miss Lucy Freeman is her best friend gets married and last name is sumner.
J. Boyer a minister and the stable one of eliza's suitors. Mr. Selby is boyer's friend.
Peter Sanford is a rich guy who is a player he is the one who gets eliza pregnant even
though he is married to someone else. Charles Deighton is Peter's friend. Mr and Mrs
Richman friends of eliza welcomed her into their home have a daughter. Julia is another
of eliza's friends who comes to stay with her for a while. Somewhere there is a garden
of eden scene. Eliza dies after her child dies she is 37.
David Walker, Appeal in Four Articles: correct answers published three years after
Jefferson's death kind of refutes or asks others to refute what he has said. Talks about
how horrible whites treat africans and are they not men and children of god as well.
Being christian makes whites worse and they have not lived up to their covenant with
god. Demands that africans get basic human rights. Develops more of a history/
background to show where prejudice comes from he finds that there is no good reason
for it.
Washington Irving, "Rip Van Winkle": correct answers pretends someone else wrote it
named diedrich knickerbocker. Kaatskill mountains and village below is where Van
Winkle lived. He was a likeable man by everyone but his wife because he helped them
but not his own family. His wife got cross with him and kicked him out a lot. Went to
mountain with one day with dog to go hunting and followed a man into a cave when he
woke up and went back down the hill about 18 years had passed. Now after the
revolution and places and flags have changed. He went to be lazy and live with his
daughter and told his story to anyone who would listen. If someone wanted to escape
they would mention his story. Note: the author of this tale says that it is all true and he
heard it from Rip Van Winkle himself.
athaniel Hawthorne, "My Kinsman, Major Molineux": correct answers A boy of about 18
came to town; he seemed to be of at least the middle class and not bad looking, boys
name is Robin. He asked at a barber shop for directions to Major Molineux's house but
they got angry and told him to leave and laughed at him. Went into a tavern and asked
there but they started saying nonsense and then laughed him out of the door. Found a
, half open door to a house with a lady inside and asked her directions she said Molineux
lived there and he almost believed her until she rushed away when a guy came out and
told robin to leave, he did not answer robin's question either. Was about to knock on
everyone's doors when he met a stranger and forced the stranger to answer him, the
stranger said that if robin waited there an hour he would see Molineux. The stranger
seemed to have a face split down the middle half black and half red. Robin- Waits on
church steps looking at the town then he starts to get creeped out by being close to so
many graves and reflects back on past days with his family. A man passes by and well
he has never heard of Molineux he offers to wait with Robin and they have a nice chat.
Noises start getting louder and louder and all of a sudden the odd stranger from before
is on a horse leading some sort of parade or march. The crowd has tarred and
feathered Major Molineux who Robin had been looking for the whole time.
Something overtook Robin and suddenly he was the one screaming/laughing loudest of
all.
The nice gentleman said that Robin should stay for a while and see if he could make a
name for himself without help.
William Apess, "An Indian's Looking-Glass For the White Man": correct answers
Women left unprotected for white men to seduce. Agents: those appointed by the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts to oversee Indian affairs in such towns as Mashpee.
Speaking to redskins. If the Indians have such good principles and talents as supposed
they should then they should be brought forth out of their misery. Naturalist: i.e., the
American Indian; a play on the view of Indians as children of nature or "sons of the
forest". If God sees colored people as horrible than why did he create so many they
outnumber the whites. Who would have the most sins can infer that it is the whites.
Burning son: the reference is to the "nation" of Africa, many of whose people were
brought to the United States as slaves. God teaches to love all and the whites do not do
this. Talks about intermarriage and the laws against it in Massachusetts. Jesus christ
was a jew does that mean you would not let him into your home. They are noble people
some that he lists that agree with him.
He says that his kind has to keep on fighting because one day they will be rewarded.
Problems facing Native communities: unprotected, poor living conditions- starving and
naked, packed in a small space, prodigality and prostitution, shortage of jobs so men go
to sea, treated as "minors", land is commonstock/ shared with everyone, agents who
are corrupt, lack of education. Apess' view on race and comparison to Jefferson and
Walker: appeal to humanity, skin color is superficial and not indicative of character or
destiny, "persons and properties" would you like to be disfranchised, "pretend"/
"pretext"- racism is a shame for greed, fighting for natural rights; like Walker written in a
logical manner also appeals to empathy/ challenge racism.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance": correct answers Starts with some verses. Says
to speak what you think otherwise you might regret if someone says it before you. "Envy
is ignorance; that imitation is suicide;" -killing of self identity, intellectual suicide,
encourages originality. Trust yourself. Be like a boy who does not yet have a conscious
and thus says what he pleases. Society stifles our minds. The only wrong is going
against what is right to whether you be evil or good. Does not like to give money to
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