Graduation

graduation, hierarchy, new begining. this piece was interesting to read. the language that she used at times was new to me . "... anxious to help with preperations as a kind of dry run." and the sentence structure was very detailed. she did alot of showing and telling . "his voice rose ib tides of promise and fell on waves of warning" it was a good balance of the 2 . she did a really good job of setting up the scene for me when i was reading i had a picture of the setting before she explained the situation of the people. for expample on page 44 paragraph 2 when she explained the school it was very detailed and gave md a good picture what the school was and i could sense through her writing and how she explained it that the school was different from the other white school. i also thaught it was interesting how she talked about the 2 white men when they came to speak at the graduation. i thaught that they were giving priase to the african american students but then she goes onto say (during the time of the to be or not to be speach) " hadnt e got the message? there was no ' noble int he mind' for the begros because the world didnt think we had minds, and they let us know it. i like also how she gave a bit on how she felt to be a "negro" "it was awful to be a negro and have no control over my life" she made many bold statements liekt hat throughout the book. very opinionated .