Eighth 5,4,3,2,1

10/23/08

5 comments:
-The racism in this story is rediculous to the point that whites are calling santa black because someone had a decoration of santa, and it was dirty.
-We see that once these several racial conjectures are made, ROb gets sick of it, and decides he wants to leave the South for too.
-It is funny how Mrs. Gibson tries to arrange for Rob's marriage because he really doesn't want anything to do with it.
-Robert starts to want to stand up for his rights once he returns to the south.
-It seems as if blacks in he south are so used to the constant racism, that they don't feel anything can be done.

4 questions:
-Why doesn't Rob stand up for himself or his race when he his faced with racism?
-Why does Rob's parents say he will be like Mr. Gibson if he does not graduate?
-Why does ROb all of a sudden become sort of a rebel?
-Do you think that blacks in the south are used to the racism so they don't care about doing anything to change it?


3 words (or more for extra credit):
-Bromides (Houston 174): A tiresome person; a bore.
-Brooding (Houston 176): preoccupied with depressing, morbid, or painful memories or thoughts.
-Perfunctory (Houston 177): performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial.

2 Literary Devices:
-Metaphor: "His raccoon eyes..." (Houston 169). This is a metaphor because it compares santa's eyes wit ones of a raccoon without using the word like or as.
-Simlie: " She was standing on the other side of the room in a floral print dress that covered her big, heavyset frame like a tent" (Houston 172). This is a similie because it makes a comparison between two non-similar things using the word like.

1 Summary sentence: This section is about how Rob returns home for Christmas, and realizes how much he hates it in the south.