Being a chink by christine leong essay

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ESSAY # 1

In their essays, “The Meanings of a Word” and "Being a Chink", Gloria Naylor and Christine Leong describe their personal experiences with race growing up in the United States. Although their essays are personal, they can be considered universal for many people like Naylor and Leong because they are describing life in a society that is not inclusive and not color blind.

Using Naylor’s and Leong’s essays, answer the following question in an essay:

How important is the topic of race in the United States today in 2017?

• Support your point of view with examples from Naylor’s and Leong’s essays.

• Use at least 3 in-text citations--2 from the readings and 1 from one of the posted videos. You may not use other outside sources. The format for a video clip citation and its corresponding in-text citation USE MLA 8 citation

• Include a Works Cited list for your citations MLA 8. 1300 words which does not include identifying information or Works Cited, limited use of “I”

THIS IS THE ESSAY BY NAYLOR

“The Meanings of a Word” by Gloria Naylor

source: http://faculty.ucc.edu/english-chewning/naylor.htm

Language is the subject. It is the written form with which
I’ve managed to keep the wolf away from the door and, in
diaries, to keep my sanity. In spite of this, I consider the
written word inferior to the spoken, and much of the
frustration experienced by novelists is the awareness that
whatever we manage to capture in even the most
transcendent passages falls far short of the richness of life. Dialogue achieves its power in the dynamics of a fleeting moment of sight, sound, smell, and touch. (1)