the river niger poem

15. September 2020 @ 14:19

In a statement near the end of the play, John realizes what poetry actually is. Mo, Al, Chips, and Skeeter have chosen to fight racism through belonging to a “revolutionary” organization resembling the Jeff chooses to struggle against racism within the law, by planning to become a lawyer.

Blue Haven’s offer acknowledges the Black historical past and provides them with a route to fulfilling their role as men without “selling out,” so to speak.The problem that is presented in these two plays is common to a large number of Afro-American plays which are aimed at large audiences. In the meantime, the police close in. After these revolutionaries fail to locate the police informant and to complete successfully a guerrilla action they arrive at the Williams’ home in desperate need of assistance from competent black men. Al and John simultaneously shoot each other—Al dies immediately, while John is fatally wounded. Conducted Reading Tour of the South

. . When Dudley asks John for a drink “for the road,” he replies,“One for the road! When Jeff later catches Chips attempting to rape Ann at gunpoint, he wrestles Chips’s gun out of his hands and threatens him with it.Gail, twenty-one, is described as “sincere and very much in love with Mo.” Gail pleads with Jeff to help straighten Mo out, as she feels his revolutionary organization has gotten out of hand.

She often sings or hums “Rock of Ages” and other hymns. John himself proclaims it to be poetry and dies boasting of his prowess.As in the earlier two plays the son learns something valuable from the father; machismo is the virtue John passes to his son Jeff. The extent to which Black people have not become full participants in American society indicates their unwillingness to accept the routes the larger society has created for them. I was a b—h too. Those Mo has recruited are bound together by their sordid past, which does not provide the necessary bond for trust and devotion for one another needed for true revolutionary activity. When Jeff later catches Chips attempting to rape Ann at gunpoint, he wrestles Chips’s gun out of his hands and threatens him with it.Gail, twenty-one, is described as “sincere and very much in love with Mo.” Gail pleads with Jeff to help straighten Mo out, as she feels his revolutionary organization has gotten out of hand. No jeopardy, man, I promise.” The “fighting lady Ann,” like Mattie, knows when to make meat loaf and when to fight; decisions, however, are always made within the boundaries established by the head of the household.It is impossible to ignore in the characterization of Ann a certain amount of correction of Beneatha. The linear historical consciousness negates the past in favor of a distorted version of the present and an obscure vision of some distant future.In contrast to the linear historical conception, the mythic view of history insists on the constant recreation of the Black historical past through the actions of white Americans against Black people.

This conflict is presented in Afro-American popular drama not as vague abstractions of massive struggles of light and dark forces, of good and evil powers, but as real tensions between characters who represent either side of the dichotomy. Mattie explains to Ann that John wanted to become a lawyer, but had to quit school to support various members of Mattie’s family who had migrated from After Mattie and Grandma leave to go shopping, Mo, Gail, Skeeter, Al, and Chips show up and begin harassing Ann.

She allows Jeff to protect her and to make decisions for her.