Krista

 Desiree asked Armand if he wanted her to go because he was acting very distant with her. When he said yes, she actually left. I think that she left because of how she was raised and society at the time. Since she was abandoned by her real parents, I think her self esteem is very low and she does not know how to fight for someone she loves. She probably feels used to getting rejected and just allows it to happen. Because of society at the time, I think that she understood why Armand did not want to be with her anymore. He had a plantation of slaves and Desiree might have felt like Armand would treat her the same way.

 Before the play begins, Tom describes Jim as the "most realistic character in the play," and I agree. I think that Jim is the most realistic character in the play because he puts everything in a better perspective than Amanda, Laura, and Tom. When Tom talks about his job at the warehouse, Jim says “You're going to be out of a job if you don't wake up.”(1.6.) Jim seems more realistic about his job at the warehouse, he knows that he is not the “warehouse type” (1.6.) but he still continues to work there and also takes two courses at night. With Laura, Jim sees her as just a normal girl that is a little shy. He tells her that when they went to high school together he never heard any clumping when she came up the stairs. Jim also says “I guess being shy is something you have to work out of kind of gradually.” (1.7.) He shows that it is no big deal how she is, but Amanda and Tom think that everyone notices Laura as a cripple. Tom says “In the eyes of others - strangers - she's terribly shy and lives in a world of her own and those things make her seem a little peculiar to people outside the house.” (1.5.) Laura is infatuated with Jim, and she puts him on a pedestal even when he is nowhere near the gentleman callers Amanda had. Jim’s character in the play is very important because he sees things differently than everyone else.  = =  
 * //Krista: Good answer, but why is Jim more realistic than Tom, Amanda or Laura? As you said, he works at the same place, etc. but why would Tom say that Jim is more realistic. You don't really address the word "realistic." Look at the difference between reality and illusion in the play. You sem to be dealing with normal and perfect rather than realistic. Mrs. S//**

Krista- I agree with how you say that Jim is the realist. Also when you say that since Laura only lives in her small world and sees Jim, her first gentlemen caller as the perfect person, it is because he is the most straight forward. He doesn't beat around the bush and is very real with everything that he says. -Nick Smart
 * //Nick: How is he more "straightforward"? Tom and Amanda certainly don't try to hold back when they are talking to one another. Mrs//**. **//S//**

UNDERSTANDING AMERICA 1. The group in the audience who would call out those words would be African Americans that might have family members who were slaves. 2. The group in the audience who would call out those words would be any person who was looked down upon or put down by someone else.

"I Hear America Singing" and "Let America Be America Again" are similar Hughes explained how America should be and people proved that it wasn't that way and Whitman explained how Americans come together.


 * ** Statements **

|| ** “I Hear America Singing” **

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|| ** Let America Be America Again **

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|| <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">** Not in either poem – put a check only **

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 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">** The poem relates a personal experience. **

|| <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">**Tells of the everyday activities of many americans**

|| <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">**"carpenter measuring his plank and beam"**

|| <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;">** He talks about coming from Africa. **

|| <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">**"negro bearing scars of slavery" "young man full of strength and hope"**

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 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">** The poem relates common experiences. **

|| <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">** workers doing common jobs and being joyful at their lives. **

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|| <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;">**people suffeing at the hands of others and society**

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 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">** The poem explicitly states the message of the poem again. **

|| <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">**no**

|| <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">**<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">the reader has to infer that whitman is celebrating the diversity of America and the joy and hope of the American people. **

|| <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">**yes he repeats words that lead the reader to understand the explicit message that America is not the land of hope and dreams that it should be**

|| <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">** He states that he wants America to be how it used to be. **

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 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">// The poem describes a variety of events, many of which could be happening at the same time. //

|| <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">// Yes //

|| <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">// He talks about everyone having different jobs to accomplish. //

|| <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">// Yes //

|| <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">// He talks about all of the problems everyone goes through in America. //

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 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">** The poet uses elevated language. **

|| <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">** Whitman used the language"I" to reresent the American people and his language is the vernacular of everyday language of Amercia. **

|| <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">** <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">nonconformist ** || <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">** as a part of the Harlem Renaissance ,Hughes celebrated the language and culture of his black heritige. **

|| <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">** <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">nonconformist ** || <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">** √ **

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 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">** The poem uses the language of the poem’s subjects. **

|| <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;">**No**

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|| <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">** No **

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|| <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">** √ **

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 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">** The poem’s tone is optimistic and joyful. **

|| <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;">**Whitmans poem is**

|| <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">**"singing" "carols"**

|| <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">**pesimistic at the beginining ends optimistic.**

|| <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">**begining-"living like leeches on peoples lives" " America never was America to me"**

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 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">** The poem’s tone begins in a pessimistic way but ends in a positive note. **

|| <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">** No **

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|| <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">** Yes **

|| <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">**<span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;">In the beginning he talks about all of the problems people face in America and then towards the end he talks about America going back to normal one day. end- "Steel of freedon does not stain" "America will be America again"**

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|| || <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">**repetition** || <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">**" I hear" Every line begins with "The" repeats singing almost every line.** || <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">**repetition- rhetorical question** || <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">**"Who said free" " The millions on relief today?"** ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">**Poetic Devices**