Old Black Joe

is raised by her suppressive grandmother who diminishes her view of life. Janie?s quest for true identity emerges from her paths in life and ultimatly ends when her mind is freed from mistaken reality. Failing to recognize herself as the one black child in a photograph,

south. "The book was criticized at the time, especially by black male writers, who condemned Hurston for not taking a political stand and demonstrating the ill effects of racism"(History 3). Zora was a very talented woman, she was given the scholarship to study anthropology at Barnard College, she became the school's first known African American graduate in 1928. "Anthropologist and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston was the most prolific Black woman writer in the USA between 1920 and 1950; the foremother

beautiful girl named Janie. The novel was written by an American folklorist and author, Zora Neale Hurston. Her novel titled "Their Eyes Were Watching God," is about a sixteen-year-old who is under grandmother 's care. Their Eyes Were Watching God gives a brief representation of the life that black slaves had to live. Through the black American culture, many slaves were force to sexual and physical abuse from their owners. This is the case of Janie 's grandmother Nanny; she is raped by her master, and has

race while the “white” people seem to be extremely nonexistent. Hurston greatly believed in a form of “black power”, although her form in this book tends to be more of a complete representation of the part of the black community as it was till it went out of style and became viewed as illiterate. The whole book is written using an archaic form of English only spoken by supposed illiterate black Americans, it all portrays the complete life of the African Americans in all its beauty and ugliness,

away. The theme of “The Man who was Almost a Man” symbolizes the coming of age, racism and self-deception of the kid. In the story Dave is a seventeen year old black boy who worked for a white male to get money and help his family. At the time of the story there was racism against the black people. In the story the part of the racism is that a black boy was working for a white male. Dave’s family does not have much money because they are not a white family and cannot get a good paying job. Also that

Autobiography of Jane Pittman, and Of Love and Dust       The ante-bellum Southern social system put blacks in a low economic and social class and limited their pursuit of happiness.  The aristocracy firmly held blacks in emotional and spiritual slavery. Cajuns, Creoles and poor whites maintained a low status in society, which frustrated them because they felt they should be superior to blacks and equal to whites. Racism was a base of southern society and a hope to improve life and gain respect

second husband, Joe. Joe becomes a powerful mayor in the town of Eatonville, where he has

Grandpa Joe. Various social media accounts have been created in order to recognize that Grandpa Joe from “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” is the true villain of the film. saynotogranpajoe.com began an entire controversy over whether “Charlie’s grandfather is anything other than a rat bag industrial spy bastard” or not. The two authors of the website refer themselves as “Oompa” and “Loompa”. Their reasoning revolves around the character Slugworth.

Film noir is described as being a piece of crime drama that involves the use of specific narrative elements and film elements. Through the use of these elements, countless individuals are entertained by the pure drama. Film noir, represents crime examples that many individuals in the United States could relate to; especially those that were living post war in the1950s. From French roots, the term film noir has a literal meaning of “dark film”. “Dark film” is an acceptable coined term for noir, because

marry them, and increase their status by having a wife. In this marriage, Joe holds Janie down by taking her voice away like Nanny did. He expects Janie to be satisfied with his dream come true of being mayor and holding the title of the mayor’s wife. Jodie, like Logan, suppresses Janie by forcing her to work at the store. Janie is also held down by not to speak and have fun with the men. Janie is put over the edge when Joe keeps publicly humiliating her. She eventually retaliates and talks back to