Track A: GENDER
“Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway
“Black Woman” by Georgia Douglas Johnson
“On Being Young – A Woman And Colored" by Marita Bonner
Track B: CLASS and ECONOMICS
“Winter Dreams” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Bitter Fruit of the Tree” by Sterling A. Brown
“The Ethics of Living Jim Crow” by Richard Wright
After selecting Track A or Track B, complete the assignment below.
Using your track of choice, please answer the following questions pertaining to the selections you read.
Choose 2 works from the Track of your choice (1 poem and 1 short story).
Please use complete, substantial sentences to answer the questions, and include in your answers textual support from the works you are analyzing.
Given the events of the times, what themes emerge within the selections you chose, and do they seem appropriate for the time period?
Going back to what was covered about symbolism, what symbols were apparent in these works?
How were they used by the authors to communicate the message/theme(s) of the works?
How do these themes fit or stray from what you have learned about racism and activism?
Between the short story and poem in your selected track, what similarities and/or differences between the movements do you recognize?