Paradise, By Toni Morrison

Ruby Briges was born on the exact same year as the Supreme Court’s Brown Vs. Board of Education decision in the school is noticable coincidence in her early life into Civil Rights movement . When she was in the kindergarten , she was one of the African- American students in New Orleans who been choosen to take a test to be determining whether or not she can attend a all white school . The idea they planned was that if all the African American failed the test , then in New Orleans all the schools might be able to stay segregated for a while . Ruby lived five blocks away from an all white school , but she attened kindergarten serval miles away , at an all black school .

Ruby Bridges was the first African American child ever to cross an invisible line and enter an all white school in New Orleans. On her first day, large crowds of angry white men and women protested as she walked inside of Franz Elementary School. The racist protesters carried signs saying black people don’t belong in white schools. Ruby demonstrated bravery even though she was ostracized, threatened, and surrounded by racist.

First, ruby was ostracized, or isolated, by white people including teachers and administrators. Ruby had to sit in a classroom all alone since the white parents did not want their students in a class with her. She was also left to eat alone at lunch because the other students would not eat with her. Also the kids in the neighborhood stopped playing with

Ruby Bridges, the first African American to go to a white school, she was as brave as a person going into the army. There were death threats to Ruby’s family and in the army you fight and have a chance to die. When Ruby went to this white school federal marshals had to guard her because the riots were so bad. After analyzing several online biographies, Ruby was very brave and wanted to change the way the world looks at race, and she has changed the way the world looks at race.

Ruby Bridges was one of the first African Americans to attend all white schools which took a lot of courage from the parents and, the child. Ruby was an African american girl who was put into drastic situations, she approached this valorously. Ruby demonstrated the means of African americans to fight this oppression, she was shunned, threatened and, end up being the focal point of all the hate in Louisiana.

A Land More Kind than Home by Wiley Cash definitely fits the category of “grit lit.” It is a novel about the Hall’s, a family who is wracked with grief, anxiety, and guilt after the ‘mysterious’ death of one of their sons, Christopher or Stump. The story encompasses more than just the story of the family though as it is told from the perspective of Adelaide Lyle, an old wise woman from the town, Jess Hall the youngest son of the family, and Clem Barefield, the sheriff of Marshall who also had heartache of his own that is intertwined with this families story in more ways than one. The novel incorporates most if not all of the features that is “grit lit” including: an element of crime, a focus on the bleakness of life, lyrical language, and a central character who wishes to escape their environment or get peace inside it.

     Community is an important concern in both black and women's literature. The racist and patriarchal nature of American society, what Morrison refers to as the master narrative of our culture, places blacks and women and especially black women in a position of powerlessness and vulnerability. Communities serve as a protective buffer within which black women must function in order to survive. However both Hurston and Morrison identify and criticize how the patriarchal nature of the master narrative is present in black communities. The male-female hierarchy in the black community mirrors not only the patriarchy of the dominant white culture, but also the white-black

The story “Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston focuses on the marriage life of Delia Jones and her husband Sykes. Hurston is known as famous American writer, she writes on real life stories as it was during the years when she wrote the stories. The story is about Delia Jones, a hardworking and religious woman who mistakenly marries Sykes and has been living in a strained marriage life from fifteen years. Although they have been married for fifteen year, the relationship has been abusive. Sykes is an abusive and unemployed man. In addition, Sykes have a mistress and he wants Delia to leave their house so that he can move in his lover Bertha. Sykes knows that Delia is afraid of snake, so he scares Delia several times with the bullwhip, which looks like a snake. Eventually, he brings the real snake to get rid of Delia. However, at the end of the story Delia gets her revenge on her husband Sykes for his mistreatment over the past fifteen years.

In the Ruby Bridges story that she wrote she expressed how she felt and what she was felling at this time. Ruby Bridges was considered in the category of being an integrate to the people in her school the parents of the children in the school the teachers and she was constantly threatened. The first story tells what was happening such as “protesters carrying signs,yelling insults,and throwing things.” The tim that Ruby was alive the people in her world were very racist against the color of her skin.

Willa Cather once said, “The end is nothing; the road is all.” It doesn't matter how things turn out, it's the journey that really matters. That's where you learn the most and are able to grow as a person. I agree with and respect this quote, because it reaches out to those who may be going through a rough time and are in need of comfort. This quotes shows us that through rocky times with ourselves, others, or life in general, that what matters most is not the result, but the road taken to where we are now.

Although Shel Silverstein was secretive about his life, has had many life-shaping events take place that has shaped his career. Silverstein is often thought of as one of the best authors of children's books, even though some disagreed with the topics he wrote about. He has sold many books, poems, and songs over his career, and is a heavily awarded author. Shel Silverstein’s poem “Where the Sidewalk Ends” emphasizes the importance of individuality and independence in life which was inspired by his own unusual past of a PlayBoy cartoonist and 5-year hotdog vendor.

In the classic novel The Sun Also Rises, author Earnest Hemmingway carefully follows the lives of several Americans, impacted by times of World War I. The cohort of people highlighted in this time period is often referred to as the "Lost Generation." The war was commonly known as the Great War, and shaped the way people lived in that particular time period. Known for its fast times and lack of morals, the war set a new standards for the people of its time, and changed many people's beliefs in traditional values of love, morals, and religion. Throughout the novel, the results of the war affected the characters in every aspect of their lives.

How does Ernest Hemingway develop the theme of self-governance in the short story A Way You’ll Never Be?

“Morrison does not provide a map or detailed description of Ruby, Oklahoma, but rather uses narrative accounts to help readers construct the area (Christopher 89). The same is done for the Convent; the only real detail is the road running to connect the two communities. Narratives also begin to construct more metaphorical maps of paradise. The previously stated differences in paradise constructions demonstrate that there are multiple paths to attempting utopia (Christopher 1). Ruby and the Convent’s brands of paradise differ greatly in both design and execution. The communities not only demonstrate potential utopias, but they also comment on the very idea of utopian visions.“Utopian authors use their texts as maps, guides that point out both failures and the possibilities of the past, present, and future;” Morrison seems to use hers to show that real perfection lies in progress (Grattan 382). The maps are incomplete, but what truly matters is the change that both communities

Hemingway uses dialogue and a tone that is dreary to describe the complexities and the meaning of loss. Hemingway creates an unpridictable shift in the story to bring in the theme of loss. By doing so it allows the author show the conflict of the characters specially the man, who has an inner conflict.Hemingway does this by using the dialogue between the man and the women. "It's really an awfully simple operation, Jig," the man said. "It's not really an operation at all." This is when the shift happens from a simple conversation to a more complicated one that introduces the theme of loss. But later on in the text he states that " I think it's the best thing to do. But I dont want you to do it if you dont really want to." This shows the inner