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1.Richard Wright: Nicole Mazzola

Richard Wright was an author, who was born on September 4,1908 on a plantation in Mississippi. Wright went to Lanier high school but had to drop out in order to work and raise some money in order to go to Memphis (Rayson). Wright married Ellen Poplar and then a little later they divorced, and he married Dhimah Rose Meadman. He had two daughters with her (Rayson). In 1941 Wright established a play of __Native Son__. In the spring of 1941, the play ran and was as huge success (Rayson). Richard Wright died in Nov of 1960.

Rayson, Anna. Modern American Poetry. Richard Wright’s Life. 2000. 10 Jan 2010.

2.Segregation

Nicole Mazzola

Racial Segregation is when different races are separated into different places (Wiki). They were not permitted to be anywhere near each other. There were laws that restrained them from coming close to each other. These Laws were passed in the 1960’s. Segregation lasted until Martin Luther King Jr. Started the civil rights moment to stop segregation. Rosa Parks Started the Montgomery Bus boycott, when she wouldn’t give up her seat to a white man who wanted her seat.

Wikipedia. Racial Segregation. 6 January. 10 January 2010.

3. Jim Crow laws Nicole Mazzola The Jim Crow laws were laws against blacks. These laws separated Blacks and whites from going to the same places, or being in the same areas. There were Jim Crow laws for every public place. “No person or corporation shall require any white female nurse to nurse in wards or rooms in hospitals, either public or private, in which negro men are placed (Jim Crow Laws). These laws prevented whites and blacks to interact with each other. They separated Blacks and whites everywhere they went. There were separate bathrooms, restaurants, etc. No laws permitted them to be anywhere near each other.

Race, Racism and the law. Examples of Jim Crow Laws. 2 Nov 2009. 10 Jan 2010.

4. New Deal Programs Elisabeth Lopez



During the 1920s, it was difficult to find jobs in America because of the Great Depression. The cause of this era was the Stock Market Crash of 1929, an event that would affect thousands of individuals and families. According to an economist, Richard M. Salsman, “Anyone who bought stocks in mid-1929 and held onto them saw most of his or her adult life pass by before getting back to even” (Wiki). Many people took financial tolls the day this happened and sought after any means of work to gain back money. However, it wasn’t until Roosevelt issued a series of New Deal programs to bring people back on their feet. These programs generally included construction jobs and with that, required people to take on these tasks.

Wikipedia. Wall Street Crash of 1929. 9 January. 10 Jan 2010. Web.

5. The Scottsboro Trials Elisabeth Lopez



9. Literary Naturalism By; Katelyn Stephens



The term Literary Naturalism is described as "Literature that attempts to apply scientific principles of objectivity and detachment to its study of human beings’’ (wsu.edu). Basically it means that that they use science in their novels to determine the human character cannot escape social conditions, heredity and environments. They have an idea where human nature where the laws apply that they can be studies and understood better and they prefer the scientific method and the human nature to determine if they cannot escape. Some famous authors that used this were Frank Norris, Theodore Dresiser, and Jack London. All these authors were proving human nature can be determined and more people can study it to determine more about its information. However human nature they can escape their circumstances when they work hard enough and make a better life for themselves. Though a lot of time they do not get to have the opportunity to get out of their heredity or social conditions they can at lease make it where they over- exceed from where they are. This could be a problem in Native Son where the main characters are going to be stuck in their heredity or their social conditions.

Campbell, Donna M. Naturalism in American Literature. Wsu.edu. 08 Jan 2010. Web

10. Marxism By Katelyn Stephens



Marxism definition is "An economic and social system based upon the political and economic theories of Karl Marx and Friedrick Engels''(allaboutphilosophy.org). Basically it is a system that these two people came up with that means that the economic production is determined by political change or social change. These could be big factors within the book where everything is based off of the economic/social systems which the people of the book my be stuck in the the situations they are in like the Street. Also as stated "Under capitalism in order to support their families are paid a bare minimum wage which causes the worker to be alienated" (allaboutphilosophy.org). In class the other books we talked about alienation and how it could happen because of the person alienating themselves or that society is doing it but in this book it could be where alienation will come into play. The way the people of the book live is how they if they had to work for the bare minimum then they will have not a lot of money for their families and cause problems. The same circumstances happened in the "The Street" where the mother Lutie was doing everything in her power to make a better live but also she was trying to support her family. In the book I think that there is going to be alienation and capitalism because of either money, status or something because of the people in the book.

No author. //All about philosophy//. allaboutphilosophy.org. 10 Jan 2010. Web

11. Jean-Paul Sartre By: Katelyn Stephens



Jean- Paul Sartre was born June 21, 1905 in Paris, France. His father died when he was one years old and after his father's death he went to live with this grandfather [maternal]. He believed that "Influence of modern society was so strong it produced a loss of self and to regain individual freedom from such force in society one must seek for group revolutionary action" (egs.edu). He also believed Marxist could not deal with the every changing situations unlike his idea but also it has the "persecution of individual freedom" (egs.edu). Both ideas had a different ideas concerning society that could be present in the book where freedom could be an issue where they are trying to gain it back. From these terms freedom is one of the most common idea coming up along with alienation so it could be that this story is going to have those issues in them. Sartre was offered the Nobel Peace Prize for his book in 1964 but rejected the award. Through his ideas it brought the philosophy of how people can regain their individual freedom and how it changed how people thought about philosophy.

no author. //Jean- Paul-Sartre biography//. Egs.edu. 10 Jan 2010. Web