Ch. 17-18, Blog – Can one voice move a crowd to action?
Yes, but it depends on who that voice is and what the crowd is. In the book, we see Wright realizing that the Communists can't reach the black population because they speak in high ideals and metaphors and things that aren't common knowledge in the impoverished black population. So the Communist speakers can't move that crowd to action. However, as seen by the fact that they can recruit successfully, a speaker can reach other crowds, like whites and 'intellectuals' and people like Wright.
Thursday 13 March 2008
Election
Ch. 16, What do you think of Wright's action during the election?
This sort of goes back to what we were talking about in class one day- about whether Wright was 'good' or 'bad' and I said neither because he was human. So this isn't as deep and profound as that, but I think what he did made sense. He may have participated bribery and a corrupt election, but as he said- he needed the money. Even if he hadn't done anything for it, someone else would have. One person can't change anything; only groups can (though one perrson can incite a group to movement). After he did all that, then he wrote I Protest This Fraud on his ballot. What do I think of that? I think that all votes should be honest, even if they don't count individually, and if that was how he felt, that was a good thing to do. (Also, my dad did something like that once: he disliked both candidates so he put 'the corpse of Benjamin Franklin') Wright wrote something else about how he knew that the politicians would know that at least one person knew what was going on and that made him feel better. I understand that feeling.
This sort of goes back to what we were talking about in class one day- about whether Wright was 'good' or 'bad' and I said neither because he was human. So this isn't as deep and profound as that, but I think what he did made sense. He may have participated bribery and a corrupt election, but as he said- he needed the money. Even if he hadn't done anything for it, someone else would have. One person can't change anything; only groups can (though one perrson can incite a group to movement). After he did all that, then he wrote I Protest This Fraud on his ballot. What do I think of that? I think that all votes should be honest, even if they don't count individually, and if that was how he felt, that was a good thing to do. (Also, my dad did something like that once: he disliked both candidates so he put 'the corpse of Benjamin Franklin') Wright wrote something else about how he knew that the politicians would know that at least one person knew what was going on and that made him feel better. I understand that feeling.
Change
Ch. 12-14 Blog – Is the change Wright sets in motion at the end of Part I a positive or negative change?
Wright's change- his move to the North- is a positive change. He's going to try and change himself so that he can be more himself and won't have to act so subservient to the whites. He thinks that in the North, the people won't discriminate against him so much. His desire to become more equal is a positive thing. The North will help him along that path, even though there is just as much prejudice there, too. So it is a positive change because he's trying for something close to equality, which all humans deserve.
Wright's change- his move to the North- is a positive change. He's going to try and change himself so that he can be more himself and won't have to act so subservient to the whites. He thinks that in the North, the people won't discriminate against him so much. His desire to become more equal is a positive thing. The North will help him along that path, even though there is just as much prejudice there, too. So it is a positive change because he's trying for something close to equality, which all humans deserve.
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