Week 6 Post A

VOCAB-

jaunty: easily and sprightly in manner. adj.

disconsolate: without consolation; hopelessly unhappy. adj.

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE-

1) "The white and black keys (of a piano) could represent white people, and the black keys could represent non-white people"(171). This metaphor already explains itself, but it compares different races to the keys on a piano.

2) "I'm not afraid to disturb the skeleton's in America's closet"(171). Here a metaphor is used to discuss America's problems. The skeletons represent the things that America has done that probably doesn't want to be brought up.

3) "zazz"(177). I'm not sure if this is an actual onomatopoeia, but I think that it could be one. First, it's not an actual word, but it sort of describes something with a little emotion and personality.

QUOTE-

Although it is short; it is quite controversial. Colbert states, "Racism no longer exists in America"(172). As much as most would like this to be true it's not. I see racism almost everyday. Not in my school as much as in the outside world, obviously, but many schools still do have a racism problem. I just watched a movie called Knocked Up, and there's a scene where an older woman is trying to get into a club, and the bouncer rejects her. She gets very upset, but then he tells her that he wish he didn't have to judge by looks, but his job makes him only let in 5% of black people. So for every 25 people he can only let 5 black people in. And this movie was filmed recently taking place in the present. So it goes to show that there is still racism in America, along as everywhere else.

THEME-

This sections theme was eliminating racism, by eliminating color. Although, it would be more correct to accept all color, and not be racist.