Description
Write journal about summery book Beyond Feelings and Beloved
Instructions from syllabuse
About Journal Keeping: The journal is not to document what class activities we engage in on any given day. It is your evidence that you have completed the reading assignments, and a tool that can help you better understand your own reading and writing habits. This may result in an epiphany, or epiphanies! Keep the journal current; write it weekly, at the very least. Look back, and skim at regular intervals what you have written to help you learn more about your own writing. This journal is to be typewritten and double-spaced, on one continuous document that you print and submit at the end of the semester. Start the journal by writing about the first four essays, e1, e2, e3, and e4. Free-write two short paragraphs, detailing the experience of writing that assignment, or essay. Your first paragraph should discuss what you had a hard time doing, what grammar and punctuation problems troubled you, and what challenges of logic you may face. The second paragraph should go on to discuss how you tackled the problems you identified in the first paragraph. Also note how workshop helped you, or not. What are you discovering about the way you write? Don’t forget to workshop the final revision of your essay before turning it in. Each and every character, if you’ve done your job, will have been reevaluated! For each reading assignment free-write one short paragraph regarding your experience reading/studying/beholding that assignment. This includes handouts, and any other materials, e.g., paintings, or films that may not appear on the course calendar, we may view in, or outside of class for analysis. Don’t forget to read any essay or written work aloud one last time until you think it is perfect before submitting it for evaluation. These journal entries are called directed free writes. Keep the journal current. You will be bummed at semester’s end if you have to write it all at once, and you will have lost the entire point. So write in it once a week.
Explanation & Answer
Attached.
Essay One: Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
Reading this article was quite fascinating and inspiring due to Luther King’s intelligence and
modesty when responding to the clergymen’s criticisms. Luther King provides both moral and
logical justifications for his presence in Birmingham and for his actions. Therefore, I found his
responses reasonable and justifiable.
In his letter, Luther King sets a judicious environment for dialogue by recognizing that the
clergy’s concerns were sincere. He then responds to the eight clergymen’s allegations that he
was an outsider by explaining the fact he had been invited by Southern Christian Leadership
Conference (SCLC) to Birmingham to support the African-Americans residents in their fight for
civil rights. This was a logical justification. Luther King then provides a moral justification that
he was in Birmingham to help the African-Americans to fight against injustices which was very
widespread in Birmingham.
Dr. King also apprehends the fact that the clergymen prefer negotiation to protest. However he
insists that the whites were not ready to negotiate hence, protests had to be done in order to
create crisis and tension hence, forcing both parties to negotiate. He insists that negotiation was
justifiable since they went through all the necessary steps that is; establishing facts, negotiating
self-purification then direct action. Dr. King then rebuts the clergymen’s claims that the protests
by the SCLC were untimely contending that being privileged, they whites would always view the
African-Americans protests as untimely as they were a threat to their status quo.
Besides responding to the clergy’s concerns Dr. King uses his letter to express his personal
concerns. He criticizes church leaders for supporting status quo over civil rights. He also
expresses his disappointment in the whites who acclaimed to support the African-Americans in
the fight for equality but rejected all direct actions. King completes his letter with a hopeful tone
that African Americans will finally triumph and attain freedom and equality.
Essay 2: Beloved Page 24-100
Studying this section was highly engaging. This is mainly because Morrison constantly swings
the readers between the past and the present hence, making the text highly confusing. As such,
more concentration and a higher level of engagement was required.
As they are together in bed, Paul D and Sethe cannot help but think about the past. They
constantly recall memories of their past. Their sex has not been as fantastic as they both though
would be. This disappointing experience for both of them in the present and their preoccupation
in the past is an indication of the ability of the past to interfere to the characters’ present and
shape or emasculate how they perceive their present lives.
Denver recalls about how a white woman, Amy helped her mother give birth to her after they
encountered each other when Stethe was running away from the school teacher. Sethe’s rescue
by Amy portrays the image of a world where women come together to support each other and
also depicts a white-balk cooperation which was rare during those days.
Denver asks Paul D on how long he plans to stay in 124, hence hurting Paul D feelings. Sethe
apologizes for Denver’s behavior but does not entertain Paul D’s criticisms about Denver. Paul
D cautions Sethe that it is not good to love someone that much as they can be taken away from
them any minute. This indicates how the blacks did not have any control over their lives. In order
to bury the hatchet with Denver, Paul D buys them gifts and helps them unite with other black
people who normally used to shun them.
The return of Beloved, the daughter that Sethe marks the beginning of a new chapter for the three
characters. Despite Beloved being physically frail, she is capable of terrorizing 124. Beloved is
obsessed with Sethe while Denver is obsessed with looking after Beloved mainly due to her
loneliness. Beloved makes Denver feel even lonelier as she only focuses on fulfilling her needs.
Essay 3: Beloved Page 101-195
Studying this section was fascinating yet puzzling as it clearly shows how evil Beloved is, a fact
that neither Sethe nor Denver; who knows the truth about Beloved is ready to admit.
Sethe goes into a clearing to try and feel Baby Sugg’s presence but she ends up being chocked.
Denver and Beloved rescue her and Denver accuses Beloved of chocking Sethe. Beloved
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