Blog 7 "The Fight"

Blog # 7

"The Fight"

                                                  

 

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Dana and Kevin decided to get married, Kevin asked Dana to get married at him, Dana thought that, although she loves Kevin, she is black and he is white man.  Also the Kevin's sister is the only surviving family and she won't accept Dana as a part of her family, the contrast of the families would be present in their relationship  It is a big decision for Kevin get married with a black women, but they love each other.   The comments about their color, or their relationship were all over.  The lady who worked  in the "slave market" told Dana that" she and Kevin were "the weirdest looking couple" she had ever seen". Dana defended her love and not matter what the people said they love each other.  In all society the interracial relationship is condemn .

When thy were in the plantations in Weylin house, Kevin had to explain to enter family that Dana was his wife. but they thought Dana was Kevin slave and Margaret Weylin punished her for following Kevin she slapped her in her face, Also Tom Weylin, Rufus and Kevin have a conversation, that wasn't permitted  had a slave educated, but this case didn't separate them. When Rufus find out that Kevin was Dana husband, he was surprised and refers at Dana as "Nigger".  Dana and Kevin  were working and observing all the life in the slavery. They were doing the job in the plantations, were exposed to the abuse, power , traditional gender roles, but they need it to continue with their goals.

The masters behaviors endured them as a couple and as a human beings and they became strong to continue and stay together again.  Kevin was sent to other side and separated from her, in time was five years. The life in the plantations and all that bad experiences, the cruelty and unconscious of the master with the slaves cemented their bond and make them became more closer.

 They were at home and she is pain, because she had whipping.  she thinks travel to the South, but she is confused, she can reconcile  the past  with the present, she was two months in Maryland, she came home and she didn't want to go outside, so she asked her cousin to bring her something to eat from groceries.  While she was at home and days passed she was busy reading books.  Books about slavery and concentration campus World War ll.

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"Those Winter Sundays"

This  blog entry, makes me very proud is blog # 3 "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden, I choose this blog, because I read one and more that ones this poem to understand it, I found many meaning in this poem, It has  deep meaning in only fourteen lines, but have learned , there is so much to say and think abut this poem, what is going on it and the message in its context.

What I have learned doing all the poem activities, It is curious how many poems and messages are in it. I also learned how to read a poem, how we can interpret and understand how beautiful thing we cans express in a poem.

Working with my house members was very interesting experience, because we have the same poem and each one interprets it in different ways. we talked each other, an d all of us explained our differentiation opinions and point of view.

It was very interesting and was a great experience for me, when we finished to analyzed the poem, each one took the best part and we made our "own poem".  We have learned so many things and concepts from our houses members.  I would like  to continue working in some activities like this.

I need to learn more, I have enjoyed how creatives we are, each one has own style and did the most beautiful  expositions.

Blog # 5

Faces of Slavery

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 Some authors have described   Africa as a Country where have been developed the slavery. The men decide how many children the women have to have. The death of the slavery was so high, so to replace the slaves who die they encourage the women to have four or five kids. The only way to stop have the kids is when the women were  breast feeding, because most prolonged breast feeding habits which stops the conception.

The production of kids was low they obligate the women have more kids,   to take to the plantations. They do market of slaves, and the men who was interesting in slaves, goes to the place where the salves are line up waiting for be sold.  But the most important thing is that they like the pregnancy women, they have to pregnancy who the first one have already seven kids and the second one was nineteen years old and has four kids, the master offered thousand dollars for each one, but it was a regular market, they have gang so, they offered to pay eleven hundred for both of them .

The plantations owns were the father of the slaves children, and the master sometimes tried to have sex with the young girls.

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                  This is my fourth blog and I choose this poem “Those Winter Sundays”.

 

                                

                            

I want to mark how important is our relationship with our parents, they are our support and our guides, they teach everything during our childhood, and they take care of us  and prepare  for our future life.

All of this behaviors and relationship with our parents will be make us good persons, from them we learn respect for everybody, also we learn how we can share our love with everybody and special with our family. The childhood is the best time to enjoy the time with our family and parents.

In “Those Winter Sundays” we analyzed the poem and how the speaker didn’t have a good relationship with his father, this was a man who was working very hard during his life to support his family, no matter how cold o how   many “Storms” and indifference from his son and his family he felt.

I like this poem in the form that is written, because the poet used nice, sophisticated and strong words to describe his son’s indifference, showing in significance metaphors to express his suffering and the anger or “cold Weather that he felt about his family. He didn’t use nasty words or complained; he showed the love through the lines, although he was tired never asked for help. He acted as a parent; if we are good parent we do everything for our family without rewards. 

blog 3" Those Winter Sundays"

 

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We continue studying close poems forms in class. This is an entry of “Those Winter Sunday,” which was published 1962.

By Robert Hayden

Sundays too my father got up early

And put his clothes on in the blue-black cold,

Then with cracked hands that ached

From labor in the weekday weather made

banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.

I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.

When the rooms were warm, he’d call,

and slowly I would rise and dress,

fearing the chronic angers of that house,

Speaking indifferently to him,

who had driven out the cold

and polished my good shoes as well.

What did I know, what did I know

of love’s austere and lonely offices?

 This poem is only fourteen lines, but each line is very strong, and Robert Hayden, show the distance between father and son. They have a few communications.  Although they love each other, the author shows in the two last lines. The Father is very tired and in pain working during the weekday and nobody Thanks him. The author used the Sunday and winter time maybe he wants to show us how cold is outside for the snow and inside of him .The poem started with cold tone and finished with some warm sentiments.

 I would to send this poem to people who have their parents, and families, to take care of them and         recognize their work and give them love during their lives.