Community Stories

Here is New York p.903

         I think White starts off by defining New York by what it isn'tnto gie a visual of what it doesn't look like. So you wont compare New York with other big beautiful places. So that all of the images of the other places an be erased from your mind when you're thinking of New York. The contradiction about what the traveler sees is just like the beginning. Its trying to help you invision whats going on by showing you with words. The traveler is basically seeing New York in the morning when the action begins. The empire and Manhattan seem to be what White thinks contributes to New York's beauty. Some problems in New York areevery pplace is out of order, its either too hot or not hot enough, the sea hits every end of New York, and rats are everywhere, too. But they overcome these problems by unifying as a statte and being unique. They do it by being "cosmopolitian". They're at ease with New York. It's their home. The neighborhoods are all "self sufficient". They all have their own tthings they specify on. They're all dediated to pople of the same needs and wants. This reminds me of downtown Chicago aside from the west, north, east, and south side. The downtown area is fast paste and busy, the north side iss very suburban like. The west and south are the ghettos and the east side is the quiet side of town.

To be Young Black and Gifted

          Growing up in Chicag for Hansberry was a regular childhood. She played games, was the irritating younger sibling who the others weren't fond of after age five. When she was sick she was pampered. She looked up to her father. He was very hard working and he held his head in a certain way that made Hansberry "certan that there wa nothing he was afraid of". Her parents instilled the ideas that thy weren't better than anyone but they were superior to everyone. They were taught that they were products and most mistreated races of man. Hansberry, being the youngest, was at first liked by the older kids. Then she became a "pest" bothering thhem with having to take her to the washroom, the movies, and watching her at night. She was the irritating younger sibling who eventually had to learn to play alone because they didnt want to play with her. The racial conflicts of the community and compassionate of the family are represented in the end. The "white neighborhood" they lived in had people mobbed around their house, leaving Hansberry's mom to watch and protect her children. Hansberry's father wasn't there because he was fighting in D.C with the NAACP in a more goverend and political way. In the end her family showed a more compassionate side of them. Their mother showed affection, because she was her childrens' protector. In the end they seemed more family like to me. they seemed more like real people intead of how they appeared in the beginning, stern and conceitd.