A Woman And Colored
Track A: GENDER
- “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway
- “Black Woman” by Georgia Douglas Johnson
- “On Being Young – A Woman And Colored” by Marita Bonner
Track B: CLASS and ECONOMICS
- “Winter Dreams” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “Bitter Fruit of the Tree” by Sterling A. Brown
- “The Ethics of Living Jim Crow” by Richard Wright
After selecting Track A or Track B, complete the assignment below.
Using your track of choice, please answer the following questions pertaining to the selections you read.
Choose 2 works from the Track of your choice (1 poem and 1 short story).
Please use complete, substantial sentences to answer the questions, and include in your answers textual support from the works you are analyzing.
- Given the events of the times, what themes emerge within the selections you chose, and do they seem appropriate for the time period?
- Going back to what was covered about symbolism, what symbols were apparent in these works?
- How were they used by the authors to communicate the message/theme(s) of the works?
- How do these themes fit or stray from what you have learned about racism and activism?
- Between the short story and poem in your selected track, what similarities and/or differences between the movements do you recognize?
