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3.93 AVERAGE
3.93 AVERAGE
Short and true and beautiful and bitter. Not enough has changed.
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This was an interesting short story. It was for my genre study class but still, I found it enjoyable. I'm glad Julia didn't turn on him at the end. I do wish it was a bit longer and complex though.
dark
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This was a fascinating look at what it might take to have a post racial world.
This story from WEB Du Bois uses an apocalypse to expose how the “other” is constructed by society by completely killing off society with only a white woman and Black man still living. The white woman grapples with her othering of this Black man who has become her companion in this apocalypse— first she sees him as “not that he was not human, but he dwelt in a world so far from hers... that he seldom even entered her thought.” As they work together, she realizes that her understanding of Black people is socially constructed and keeps them separate from herself. She eventually sees him as “no longer a thing apart... but her Brother Humanity Incarnate.” However, when they realize that it was only their city’s population that was killed off, this white character rejoins her white fray and seems to snap right back to the social constructs of race they inhabit. She does not allow her white family to accuse him of assault and lynch him, but neither does she applies her deconstruction of race and challenge the social order that we see them re enter.
adventurous
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A