A StreetCar Named Desire

I going to start of by saying that I hate plays and I especially hate reading them. When i saw the title I really wasn't interested because I thought it would be about some stupid guy who liked to race cars and his cars name was Desire,but this was the total opposite. The title is kind of similar to the last story we read "The Eyes Were Watching God" because it has nothing to do with the book, and you notice that as you read on the play is kind of interesting. What i found funny was the fact that they discussed things that were kind of taboo for that time. For example Blanche was this women who made up lies up lies and tried to embellish them. She is a women who sleeps with a lot of men, she is definitely not your typical southern bell. I think that she tells lies because she doesn't want to face the truth. She doest even want Mitch to see her in the light its like she doesn't even want to face her age. Then Mich decides that he doesn't want to marry Blanche anymore and this was also like a big slap in the face. He even tell her "You are not clean enough to bring in the house with my mother". Even if I knew I was a typical southern bell and I was in fact a clean women I would have still been offended. So imagine how she felt.

Stanley cut the cake for me or should i say for Blanche. He really took her back to reality. I think the reason he raped her was to prove the fact that if he did it no one would believe that it was true because she is so promiscuous women and that she tells lies. I think her sister pickes her husband before her because she doesnt want a life like Blanche I think she rather just have a fake "happy' marriage than the one that every one is going to talk about. Sort of like the one that Blanche lives.

Their Eyes Were Watching God

This was a great book. I was real hesitant about this book because the title sounds dry. As I read I found out that the title had nothing to do with the story. This was different from the rest of the stories. The main character Janie is a powerful character. In the begining of the story she was just a child and her point of view was different from all of the other african american characters in the other stories I read. Instead of complaining of her race she was proud to be black. She was not the type to get mad because someone was being racist she looked at it as them missing out on meeting who she really was. She was strong and independent.

As she got older she married man named Jody and this relationship was different. They were distant. I was really surprised at the fact that it was hard to leave Jody when it was easier to up and leave her last marriage. She didnt even get a valid divorce. But it was harder with Jody. Jody was rude and mean and i was really happy when she embarassed him and destroyed his whole sense of man hold. To me he had it coming, he always embarrased her and it was his turn. Towards the end it was like Jody didnt trust her anymore he was resentful. At his bedside when he was dieng he didnt even want her to feed him he trusted the docters instead.

Then came Tea Cake he was alot younger then Jainie he was in his late twenties and she was in his early forties. I was kind of skeptic about him because he was so young. But he was definetly better than Jody. They had a intimite and passionate relationship. He put her on this petistol and she didnt want to be on the petistol. He was different from Jody because he was the one to make her breakfast after sex. With Jody she was expected to be the one in the kitchen. But Tea Cake treated her like a lady.

I didnt like the ending. It was sad, It must have been hard for Jainie to kill the man she loved, but I see why she wasnt hesitant because she was defending her self. She says in the book that that she didnt see the man she loved. I was happy at the fact that they didnt convict her of murder and they were convinced that it was self defence which it was self defence.

Jim Crow

Ok I especially liked this reading because it described how African Americans lived in the south after "slavery" was over. Richard Wright, describes how the blacks lived on the other side of the tracks. This right here describes segregation to me. Jim grow says that nothing green ever grew in his yard and how his house had a skimpy yard that was paved with black cinders. He describes that the only people that saw green in there yard were the "whites". There was a game where children would play by throwing cinders at ecah other. I was really shock to read that even the white children were racist. I came to this conclusion because, insteacd of the white kids throwing cinders back they threw glass bottles which in fact cut Jim. You would think that the children were a little more remorcefull than the grown ups but they were just as bad as there white parents.

I dont believe in beating children in order for them to learn leasons, but i can understand why the mother did. She was scared for her son. She knew how bad things could get. I think that next time, she feared one of the white kids would kill him. I think she also wanted him to learn early, that even if the blacks fight against the whites that they will loose. After his mother beat him he said " I was never to fight any more wars"....... " I was never,never under any condition, to fight WHITE folks again". I think he learned his lesson.

Slavery might have been over, but you can tell that there was still segregation. The blacks had, black school, black churches, black teachers, and black groceries. The mother actually works all day everyday for a white family. Too me she was still considered a slave to the white people. Slvery might have been over but the blacks were still suffereing. What started off as a game enden in black boy being hurt. The blacks want social change. Its horrible how racist the whites are, they dont even want the black people to learn because they dont want them to be smart. I think they dont want them to be smart ennough, because then they will want to fight for more rights.

This story was written to describe the "old South" but let me say something......... These things are still happening. It may not be in the same way but racism has never ended.