\n PSYCHOLOGICAL\n <\/p>\n
\n If you were to psychoanalyze the character of Elethia,\u00a0what would you say that she might suffer from\u00a0opens in new window?\u00a0 Take your clues from the text to understand her character. Look into psychological literature to argue this case.\n <\/p>\n
\n HISTORICAL\n <\/p>\n
\n Consider the time of the story–in what historical period is it set\u00a0opens in new window? How do you know this? What clues can you find in the story? What do the critics say?\n <\/p>\n
\n FEMINIST\n <\/p>\n
\n Elethia is a strong female character. What strengths does she have? Why are these strengths important?\u00a0In what way does she embody feminist theory?\u00a0opens in new windowUse outside sources and close reading to back up what you say?\n <\/p>\n
\n You can choose either of these topics and write about the story of Elethia. The story of Elethia is attached along with other resources.\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
PSYCHOLOGICAL If you were to psychoanalyze the character of Elethia, what would you say that she might suffer from opens in new window? Take your clues from the text to understand her character. Look
\nRadhika Patel Professor Kassorla ENG 1102 July 2, 2022 Prospectus Paragraph Slavery is a time in history where many tragic events happened. It is a period in history that no one wants repeated. There are many heroes from that time period that will never be forgotten such as, Harriet Tubman, Zumbi dos Palmares, and many other people that remain anonymous. There are many movies, novels, and short stories written to tell what happened. It is the mission of some to inform the public of what happened to them. Alice Walker was born in 1944 who wrote a short story named, \u201cElethia\u201d. In \u201cElethia\u201d, Walker wanted to show the audience the resistance of the black people at that time. When looking at this story through a critical historic lens, it is still noticeable that there are prolonged effects of slavery and racism during post-Civil war. In the story, \u201cElethia,\u201d it portrays a young black woman that worked in a restaurant as a salad girl. The owner of the restaurant was stuffed and placed in the front; he was a former slave. Albert was very unhappy of his status after slavery ended. After the Civil war ended, the blacks were freed from Slavery, made them citizens, and protected their right to vote but the southerners did not approve all of this. Soon they passed Jim Crow laws and segregation. These laws were designed to repress black people. In the 1860s-70s, the new class was becoming an issue. It is coherent that black people were not accepted with open arms and had many troubles to face. Works Cited Page \u201cAlice Walker.\u201d New Georgia Encyclopedia, https:\/\/www.georgiaencyclopedia.org\/articles\/arts-culture\/alice-walker-b-1944\/. Accessed 3 July 202 Alice Walker is an author whose short story I am examining. She is the daughter of sharecroppers. I will use this source in my critical prospectus of \u201cElethia\u201d by gathering information on the author and the time period. \u201cElethia\u201d Characters in You Can\u2019t Keep a Good Woman Down | Shmoop. https:\/\/www.shmoop.com\/study-guides\/literature\/you-cant-keep-a-good-woman-down\/elethia-characters. Accessed 3 July 2022. This source is an analysis of \u201cElethia\u201d. This will show the characters and symbols used in the story I will use this source in my critical prospectus of \u201cElethia\u201d by analyzing the characters and symbols and getting a deeper understanding of them. Graff, Gilda. \u201cPost-Civil War African American History: Brief Periods of Triumph, and Then Despair.\u201d Journal of Psychohistory, vol. 43, no. 4, Spring 2016, pp. 247\u201361. This source has much information about post-civil war for African Americans. There are firsthand sources and lots of emotions in this. I will use this source in my critical prospectus of \u201cElethia\u201d by connecting emotions and despair into my paper. Nast, Thomas, et al. Reconstruction and Its Aftermath – The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship | Exhibitions (Library of Congress). 9 Feb. 1998, https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/exhibits\/african-american-odyssey\/reconstruction.html. This source has information about the Emancipation Proclamation and what happened shortly within that period. I will use this source in my critical prospectus of \u201cElethia\u201d by stating what was caused after slaves were freed. Read \u201cElethia\u201d – ENGLISH COMPOSITION II Section 062 Summer Semester 2022. https:\/\/gastate.view.usg.edu\/d2l\/le\/content\/2582126\/viewContent\/49082937\/View. Accessed 3 July 2022. This is my main source, this is the story itself, \u201cElethia\u201d. I will be reading this and analyzing my paper with. I will use this source in my critical prospectus of \u201cElethia\u201d because it will give me all the information, I need to start my essay along with details.
\nPSYCHOLOGICAL If you were to psychoanalyze the character of Elethia, what would you say that she might suffer from opens in new window? Take your clues from the text to understand her character. Look
\nRadhika Patel Professor Kassorla ENG 1102 July 2, 2022 Prospectus Paragraph Slavery is a time in history where many tragic events happened. It is a period in history that no one wants repeated. There are many heroes from that time period that will never be forgotten such as, Harriet Tubman, Zumbi dos Palmares, and many other people that remain anonymous. There are many movies, novels, and short stories written to tell what happened. It is the mission of some to inform the public of what happened to them. Alice Walker was born in 1944 who wrote a short story named, \u201cElethia\u201d. In \u201cElethia\u201d, Walker wanted to show the audience the resistance of the black people at that time. When looking at this story through a critical historic lens, it is still noticeable that there are prolonged effects of slavery and racism during post-Civil war. In the story, \u201cElethia,\u201d it portrays a young black woman that worked in a restaurant as a salad girl. The owner of the restaurant was stuffed and placed in the front; he was a former slave. Albert was very unhappy of his status after slavery ended. After the Civil war ended, the blacks were freed from Slavery, made them citizens, and protected their right to vote but the southerners did not approve all of this. Soon they passed Jim Crow laws and segregation. These laws were designed to repress black people. In the 1860s-70s, the new class was becoming an issue. It is coherent that black people were not accepted with open arms and had many troubles to face.
\nPSYCHOLOGICAL If you were to psychoanalyze the character of Elethia, what would you say that she might suffer from opens in new window? Take your clues from the text to understand her character. Look
\n A CERTAIN PERVERSE EXPERIENCE shaped Elethia\u2019s life, and made it possible for it to be true that she carried with her at all times a small apothecary jar of ashes. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0There was in the town where she was born a man whose ancestors had owned a large plantation on which everything under the sun was made or grown. \u00a0There had been many slaves, and though slavery no longer existed, this grandson of former slave owners held a quaint proprietary point of view where colored people were concerned. \u00a0He adored them, of course. \u00a0Not in the present–it went without saying–but at that time, stopped, just on the outskirts of his memory: his grandfather’s time. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0This man, whom Elethia never saw, opened a locally famous restaurant on a busy street near the center of town \u00a0He called it \u201cOld Uncle Albert\u2019s.\u201d \u00a0In the window of the restaurant was a stuffed likeness of Uncle Albert himself, a small brown dummy of waxen skin and glittery black eyes. \u00a0His lips were intensely smiling and his false teeth shone. \u00a0He carried a covered tray in one hand, raised level with his shoulder, and over his other arm was draped a white napkin. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Black people could not eat at Uncle Albert\u2019s, though they worked, of course, in the kitchen. \u00a0But on Saturday afternoons a crowd of them would gather to look at \u201cUncle Albert\u201d and discuss how near to the real person the dummy looked. \u00a0Only the very old people remembered Albert Porter, and their eyesight was no better than their memory. \u00a0Still there was a comfort somehow in knowing that Albert’s likeness was here before them daily and that if he smiled as a dummy in a fashion he was not known to do as a man, well, perhaps both memory and eyesight were wrong. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The old people appeared grateful to the rich man who owned the restaurant for giving them a taste of vicarious fame. \u00a0They could pass by the gleaming window where Uncle Albert stood, seemingly in the act of sprinting forward with his tray, and know that though niggers were not allowed in the front door, ole Albert was already inside, and looking mighty pleased about it, too. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0For Elethia, the fascination was in Uncle Albert\u2019s fingernails. \u00a0She wondered how his creator had got them on. \u00a0She wondered also about the white hair that shone so brightly under the lights. \u00a0One summer she worked as a salad girl in the restaurant\u2019s kitchen, and it was she who discovered the truth about Uncle Albert. \u00a0He was not a dummy; he was stuffed. \u00a0Like a bird, like a moose\u2019s head, like a giant bass. \u00a0He was stuffed. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0One night after the restaurant was closed someone broke in and stole nothing but Uncle Albert. \u00a0It was Elethia and her friends, boys who were in her class and who called her \u201cThia.\u201d \u00a0Boys who bought Thunderbird and shared it with her. \u00a0Boys who laughed at her jokes so much they hardly remembered she was also cute. \u00a0Her tight buddies. \u00a0They carefully burned Uncle Albert to ashes in the incinerator of their high school, and each of them kept a bottle of his ashes. \u00a0And for each of them what they knew and their reaction to what they knew was profound. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The experience undercut whatever solid foundation Elethia had assumed she had. \u00a0She became secretive, wary, looking over her shoulder at the slightest noise. \u00a0She haunted the museums of any city in which she found herself, looking, usually, at the remains of Indians, for they were plentiful everywhere she went. \u00a0She discovered some of the Indian warriors and maidens in the museums were also real, stuffed people, painted and wigged and robed like figures in the Rue Morgue. \u00a0There were so many, in fact, that she could not possibly steal and burn them all. \u00a0Besides, she did not know if these figures–with their valiant glass eyes–would wish to be burned. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0About Uncle Albert she felt she knew. What kind of man was Uncle Albert? \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Well, the old folks said, he wasn\u2019t nobody\u2019s uncle and wouldn\u2019t sit still for nobody to call him that, either. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Why, said another old-timer, I recalls the time they hung a boy\u2019s privates on a post at the end of the street where all the black folks shopped, just to scare us all, un understand, and Albert Porter was the one took \u2018em down and buried \u2018em. \u00a0Us never did find the rest of the boy though, it was just like always–they would throw you in the river with a big old green log tied to you, and down to the bottom you sunk. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He continued: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Albert was born in slavery and he remembered that his mama and daddy didn\u2019t know nothing about slavey\u2019d done ended for near \u2018bout ten years, the boss man kept then so ignorant of the law, you understand. \u00a0So he was a mad so-an\u2019-so when he found out. \u00a0They used to beat him severe trying to make him forget the past and gran and act like a nigger. \u00a0(Whenever you saw somebody acting like a nigger, Albert said, you could be sure he seriously disremembered his past.) But he never would. \u00a0Never would work in the big house as head servant, neither–always broke up stuff. \u00a0The master at that time was always going around pinching him too. \u00a0Looks like he hated Albert more than anything–but he never would let him get a job anywhere else. \u00a0And Albert never would leave home. \u00a0Too stubborn. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Stubborn, yes. \u00a0My land, another one said. \u00a0That\u2019s why it do seem strange to see that dummy that sposed to be ole Albert with his mouth open. \u00a0All them teeth. \u00a0Hell, all Albert\u2019s teeth was knocked out before he was grown. Elethia went away to college and her friends went into the army because they were poor and that was the way things were. \u00a0They discovered Uncle Alberts all over the world. \u00a0Elethia was especially disheartened to find Uncle Alberts in her textbooks, in the newspapers and on t.v. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Everywhere she looked there was an Uncle Albert (and many Aunt Albertas, it goes without saying.) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0But she had her jar of ashes, the old-timers\u2019 memories written down, and her friends who wrote that in the army they were learning skills that would get them through more than a plate glass window. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And she was careful that, no matter how compelling the hype, Uncle Alberts, in her own mind, were not permitted to exist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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