Unit Four

ELAALRL3 The student deepens understanding of literary works by relating them to their contemporary context or historical background, as well as to works from other time periods.
This standard is a challenge for me.

Harlem Renaissance:
I choose Harlem Renaissance because it seemed as though it would have been a more interesting time in life, the african americans were trying to get their voices out and wanted to be recognized as themselves and not just a nothing black person.

This story relates to the Harlem Renaissance because at the time that the story was wrote, the african americans were trying to get the point over that they were good writers and jazz players. The author was a woman and at the time it was that they were trying to get their point over that they were talented and they wanted to be treated equal and for being a woman it made her even more popular.

The author was saying that America then was unequal and that white people thought that the blacks had a better life and they didn't have to worry about things like they did. But really they had things going on in their lives but they didn't show it they basically keep things to themselves and to me it seems as though it made them stronger.

"Joe got his candy and left the store. The clerk turned to the next customer. 'Wisht I could be like these darkies. Laughin' all the time. Nothin' worries 'em.'"

In the quote the clerk was a white man, who thought that Joe had a good life because he was always smiling. Joe had a rough time, his wife cheated on him with a con-artist, and just had a baby which he thought wasn't his, but that didn't get Joe down. He stayed with his wife and worked things out, and didn't let that bother him. He went back to his regular life, and stayed with his family as though nothing had even happened.

Richard Corey
Richard Corey is a disillusion of the american dream. People think that his life is so perfect because he has money, nice clothes, and nice to others, but on the inside he was going though something, that was undescribed, and his life took a down fall and he committed suicide.

A dream deferred
This poem about a dream that fades away, Langston Hughes is wondering what happenes to a dead dream that people let go of. It is connecting to the harlem renaissance because it is talking about how dreams have died and the people that died before the harlem renaissance and thought what happened to their dreams and realized that their dreams of being treating equal didnt died they were pushed aside.

The Negro speaks of rivers
Langston Hughes is saying that the african american souls had grown bigger and fuller since the harlem renaissance had started. He is noting that some of the popular african american places such as Egypt, Africa, New Orleans, and Mississippi, were some of the places that the african american soul has grown from and strengthen from. This relates to the Renaissance because it also made blacks thrive for more and try to acheive more in life and for their up coming family.

Incident
Is an example of psychoanalysis because the person in the story is looking down on themself because they are made fun of because of being black. That one thing that happened in baltimore stuck in their head for the rest of their life through all the things that they have seen and done in Baltimore.


ELAALRL3 The student deepens understanding of literary works by relating them to their contemporary context or historical background, as well as to works from other time periods
I have learned how to better understand this standard in my first unit project by comparing the music influences such as Tina Turner and Keyshia Cole.