Incident

This poem is also about discrimination. It talks about a memory  the author has that has marked him in an awful way when he was just a child. He was referred as a "nigger" by another boy from the same age. Even though, the children are so young and they don't even completely know the meaning of this word, one boy uses it to discriminate the author. It is surprising how the parents educate their children and since that age the discrimination is present.

When the author smiles to the white children, and that boy calls him a nigger, he felt like if a snake has bite him and all the poison was running through his body. Discrimination is a terrible action that can mark everyone's life.

The Purloined Letter

I like a lot this story!!!!! This is my favorite genre, like 2 years ago I was a super fan from Sherlock Holmes and his adventures. This story is full of misteries and I like that a lot. I think in my another life I was a detective. The plot of the story is about a letter that is missing and the content is very important to the royal family.

I hope we read more stories like this through the year, becuase really I enjoy reading this stories that makes me think what will happen next. The end of the story was a little surprising but I still like it. Good story!

Harlem

This poem talks about what will happen in the future with all the poor areas, with the inconformity of the people, with the angry of the community. It makes us think that someday all this people will raise. It is uninmaginable what are this people capable of doing.

This poem is short but with a big meaning and gives us a lot to think. What will happen to all the people in this poor areas, with the fault of theirs rights. We have to make a change right now! Or they will explode.

Let My People Go!

This is also a spiritual bur this talks about mostly of freedom instead of slavery as the other one. It makes an allusion to the egiptians times, in the time of Moses. The refrain in this spiritual is "Let my people go!" that makes us think that in some kind they will be free because they will  get tired of all the mistreatments.

When I read it I imagine a complete idea of how they were mistreated and suffering and how it was the slavery time. They have to understand that we are equal, no matter which color your skin are. Also the rythm in this spiritual is cool.

Swing low, sweet chariot.

This text is a spitirual, a spiritual is a text song by black people in the times of slavery to motivate them against it. The first stanza consists of two repeated lines that introduce the image of the poem. The image is a char­iot that descends from the sky to carry the speaker home. Also, it includes an allusion, refers to another text, when it mentions the Jordan, it refers to the river Jordan to the Bible.

This African-American spiritual was song by the slaves during their work to don't give up and to have a hope that someday slavery will end. I like this song because we song it like we were the slaves, and in some kind I felt bad about them.

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