Introduction to Literature
Final Rough Draft Paper
Final Rough Draft Paper Comparisons of two stories
Eng 125: Introduction to Literature
“The Welcome Table” By Alice Walker/ “What its like to be a black girl” by Smith Both of these stories represent the African American woman who have been forced to face challenges of sexism, racism and stereotypes in the American life.
I will compare and contrast the similarities of both of these poems. I will also explain and give examples to show how these two poems exhibit different scenarios but similar prejudice and stereotypes.
The main character, which is nearly blind, old black woman with a lean build and a grayish tone to her skin. She wears a mildewed black dress with missing buttons and grease-stained head rag covering her pigtails. She has sleepy look in her aged blue- brown eyes. Her appearance is very ash in color also very wrinkled. She is perspiring from her walk is seeming to be very cold while she is shivering. She has entered the church and sits in the first back row. These two women’s husbands physically throw her out. “The old woman stood at the top of the steps looking about in bewilderment”. She had been singing in her head. “They had interrupted her”. “She then started singing again however instead of a happy song she sang a sad song” After the woman is turned away from the church she senses the loneliness of it all and an outcast. “ As she started looking down the gray highway she saw something appealing to her. “She sees Jesus walking down the highway and is giddy with joy. Jesus then tells the old woman to follow him and she does. Walking alongside him. The appearance that she saw she new it was he. He listens to her sing and talk to him. She feels almost like a new woman a wonderful feeling has
Final Rough Draft Paper Comparisons of two stories
Eng 125: Introduction to Literature
“The Welcome Table” By Alice Walker/ “What its like to be a black girl” by Smith Both of these stories represent the African American woman who have been forced to face challenges of sexism, racism and stereotypes in the American life.
I will compare and contrast the similarities of both of these poems. I will also explain and give examples to show how these two poems exhibit different scenarios but similar prejudice and stereotypes.
The main character, which is nearly blind, old black woman with a lean build and a grayish tone to her skin. She wears a mildewed black dress with missing buttons and grease-stained head rag covering her pigtails. She has sleepy look in her aged blue- brown eyes. Her appearance is very ash in color also very wrinkled. She is perspiring from her walk is seeming to be very cold while she is shivering. She has entered the church and sits in the first back row. These two women’s husbands physically throw her out. “The old woman stood at the top of the steps looking about in bewilderment”. She had been singing in her head. “They had interrupted her”. “She then started singing again however instead of a happy song she sang a sad song” After the woman is turned away from the church she senses the loneliness of it all and an outcast. “ As she started looking down the gray highway she saw something appealing to her. “She sees Jesus walking down the highway and is giddy with joy. Jesus then tells the old woman to follow him and she does. Walking alongside him. The appearance that she saw she new it was he. He listens to her sing and talk to him. She feels almost like a new woman a wonderful feeling has