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Cool Christian Couple Drama

 Genre Study of Good People by David Foster Good People by David Foster Wallace is a traditional short story, meeting every requirement to fit under the genre. Throughout the story, we follow the life of a young Christian couple who are navigating an unwanted pregnancy. As they process their situation the couple begin to rethink their relationship and its strength, realizing that they do not love each other. A short story, as said by Brander Matthews, follows “one action, in one place, on one day. A Short-story deals with a single character, a single event, a single emotion, or the series of emotions called forth by a single situation.” Along with various other aspects of the short story, Good People meets all the requirements to perfectly fall under the category of a short story. One important quality of a short story is that it usually starts off with little background information, dropping the reader right into the action. In Good People , we start the story with a scene of the ...
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Sonny's Blues (Sentence Analysis)

  “Neither did they dare to make a great scene about that piano because even they dimly sensed, as I sensed, from so many thousands of miles away, that Sonny was at that piano playing for his life.” (Baldwin 228) Throughout Sonny’s Blues we see how fearful Sonny is of relapse and how he uses music and piano as an outlet for his issues. This sentence takes place in the beginning of Sonny’s recovery process and shows how fearful he is of relapse and of what could become of his life in the future. To Sonny, music is the only thing that is keeping him alive right now, as it replaces his previous addiction and allows him to work through his trauma and suffering. While in the early stages of living with the narrator Sonny secludes himself, becoming totally enthralled in his music. In doing so, Sonny begins to use music as an escape, an escape from the reality of the situation he is in, from his addiction, and from Harlem. There are various moments in the story in which Sonny tries to ru...
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Shopping in WorldMart GONE WRONG! (Reimagining FPS)

  He told me we were going out to have dinner. “Wear something nice, maybe even buy yourself some new makeup.” I don’t ask what he is implying when he tells me to buy makeup, not because I don't really want to know- trust me, I know- but because I don't want to confirm my notions of his perception of me. I tell him I'll be gone for a while and head over to WorldMart- surely there will be some cheap lipstick I can buy to impress him there. I enter the store and head for the makeup aisle, hoping to score a good deal on some Maybelline products. I fidget my hands as I walk through the seemingly endless aisles of the store, my hand feels weird, empty almost, but I think nothing of it. I want something bold, something that will make me stand out, maybe a plum or a deep red. I am not especially adept at color matching myself so I just stand in the aisle, sampling products on myself, waiting for someone to come and help me. Two workers come up to me, a young guy and a girl– hopefu...
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What does the depiction of Julia in The Comet suggest about the future of racism and race relations?

  Question: What does the depiction of Julia in The Comet suggest about the future of racism and race relations? The Comet written by Edward Du Bois is an Afrofuturist short story written in 1920. The story features two main characters: Jim, a working class black man, and Julia, a wealthy white woman. Du Bois provides a criticism of racism and anti-blackness by depicting the constant, heavy impact of those societal values on both of the main characters as they navigate, what seems to be, the end of the world. Despite race affecting both of the characters' perceptions of each other, Julia seems to be more rigid in her prejudice than Jim, grappling with her racism throughout the whole story. Julia’s shift in ideology as the plot progresses suggests that in this new, dystopian future there may be hope for race relations. However, the circumstances that it takes for Julia to overcome her racism show that Du Bois himself is not hopeful and is rather pessimistic in his prediction for t...
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