Michael

**How are Desiree and Frederick Douglass alike or different?** One could say that Douglass and Desiree share traits because they are both shackled by their appearance or better yet, thir race. Desiree is shackled by a decision that was her choice to make(getting pregnant and giving birth in the first place); Frederick Douglass on the otherhand was born into slavery, it was not his choice. Also, both of them escaped thier shackles in the longrun. Douglass learned how to read and he became an abolitionist. Desiree runs away with the baby to be peaceful with it

Describe Amanda’s illusions and her reality. What has happened to these illusions and reality at the end of the play? Her illusions were that Laura was still going to school and Tom was going to the movie almost every night. She also believed that Laura was not crippled and that she can get all the gentlemen collars as she did Amanda when she was Laura’s age. The reality is that Tom sometimes had lied about going to the movies every time he said he would go. Laura was crippled and unpopular and she dropped out of school. She also realized that she herself has no man in her life to this day. Because she was so unpopular, there was only one gentlemen collar that went to Laura’s house. Laura and Amanda came to the reality that the gentlemen collar was already going steady with another girl and Amanda’s illusions for Laura had suddenly faded.

=Laura can’t say anything to Amanda about finding a gentleman caller because sure Laura had them when she was young but she has no husband or man in her life to this day. – Chad Riese=

==The first group of people were the backbone of america. they were the slaves, the poor and the desperate. they were all of the races that didnt have money or freedom. to them america has never been a land of the free.==

the second group was any common person they could have been any race or gender, it was the average man, women, or child. it was those who didnt have moeny or power and were always on alert so as not to get crushed by the fist of the powerful or to be overwhelmed by the rich and the greedy.

Statements || (words or phrases) ||= **Let America Be America Again ** ||= **Evidence ** ||= Not in either poem – put a check only ||
 * “I Hear America Singing” **
 * = **Evidence**
 * = The poem relates a personal experience.  ||= Relates to my experience of hearing and watching everyday life. ||= “The shoe maker singing as he sits…” ||= ||= “I am the young man, full of strength and hope.” ||=  ||
 * = The poem relates common experiences. ||= Workers doing common jobs ||= SAME ||= <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">People suffering at the hands of others ||= <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">SAME ||= <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> ||
 * = <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The poem explicitly states the message of the poem again. ||= <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Not stating ||= <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Reader must infer that Whitman is celebrating the diversity of America ||= <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Says that America is not the land of hope and dreams that should be. ||= <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">“Let America be the dream of dreamers” and “let America be America again.’ ||= <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> ||
 * = <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The poet uses elevated language. ||= <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Both Hughes and Whitman are noted for their non- conformity in the use of language. ||= <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Whitman used “I’ language that represented the American people( vernacular) ||= <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Harlem Renaissance, Hughes celebrates language of his black culture. ||= <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> ||= <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> ||
 * = <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The poem uses the language of the poem’s subjects. ||= <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> ||= <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> ||= <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> ||= <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> ||= <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> ||
 * = <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The poem’s tone is optimistic and joyful. ||= <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Whitman’s poem is.

||= <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">‘singing”” carols” ||= <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> ||= <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> ||= <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> ||
 * = <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The poem’s tone begins in a pessimistic way but ends in a positive note. ||= <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Pessimistic ||= <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">“Living like leeches on people’s lives” “America was never America to me. ||= <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Pessimistic ||= <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> ||= <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> ||
 * Shackles essay:**

Mrs. Sommers- In the short story of "A pair of silk stockings" written by Kate Chopin (p.437 Literary Textbook), Mrs. Sommers comes across fifteen dollars and thinks for a few days before deciding to shopping for her children. The defining moment in the story where she breaks off her shackles is when she actually touches the pair of Silk stockings and wants to spend the money on herself. Throughout the beginning of the story Mrs. sommers plans on spending all of the money on her children (or shackles) for their needs such as clothes, and toys but when she sets her eyes on the gloves she finally wants to be uxorious and have elegant things in life. She was this poor ole' lady and she same across luck and she wants it for herself. Her reaction is going and purchasing them and totally forget about whom the money was intended for.

Comparisons- Mrs. Sommers and Desiree were shackled by decisions that they had made and was thir chice for participating in the activities they did. Douglass and some of Desiree were shackle by how they were born, and their race. In their stories, Douglass and Mrs. Sommers moods end somewhat positive by them overcoming their shackles. Desriee, on th other hand was never satisfied snd they only way she could come free of her struggles was to run away and not face her froblems and end them.

-CHAD RIESE