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Passing Presitation
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Passing Presitaion
Presented by Mia Christian
Introduction
TOPIC 1
SUBTOPIC 1
- Main Characters: Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry. Takes place in Chicago and NYC.
- Clare 'passes' as a white woman (when she's black). Irene doesn't pass as white as much as Clare does. Irene begins to dislike Clare because ofhow she lives.
History
SUBTOPIC 2
- made around the Harlem Renaissance around the 1920s
- Jim Crow Laws made whites more perferable than blacks. Women also couldn't get the chance to vote.
- Blacks were searching for their identites through their literature, music, and art.
Diction
TOPIC 2
- Dialouge is used for ethnic strain, gender roles, and language.
- Created in Irene's point of view to get her perspective and memories, it allows readers to build a sympathetic relationship with the main character while, taking into account Irene's opinions of the character's and judging them through her eyes.
Symbols (Mask)
Symbols
- Represents Clare's hidden identity, that she isn't who she really is.
- Has to look, act, and speak like whites.
- Uses her mask when her social grace is to obscure for her true feelings.
Doorways, Window, Thresholds
- Represents the idea of being in two distinct places.
- Represents the fact that characters find themsleves lost or stuck between their identites.
Important Themes
- Beauty- you'll see characters admiring one another or wanting to imitate someone else's look. Taking care of their own beauty. Connect beauty with race.
- Marriage- the strength of marriage is being challenged in the story. With Irene, Clare and Brian. And with Clare and John.
TOPIC 3
Stylistic Techniques
Nella Larsen uses similes, metaphors, and imagery to tell her story.
TOPIC 4
Similes
"The telephone. For hours it had rung like something possessed. Since nine o' clock Irene had been hearing its insistent jangle."
Metaphors
"Instinctively, at the first glance of recognition, her face had become a mask. Now she turned on him a totally uncomprehending look,a bit questioning."
Imagery
"And yet, wouldn't he, perhaps, have been merely ordinarily good looking but for the richness, the beauty of his skin, which was of an exquisitely fine texture and deep copper color?"
Clare's Development
TOPIC 5
- Dramatic, outgoing, and willing to take risks.
- Very admirable, kind, and beautiful at first. But begins to be devious.
- Becomes more cunning and egotistic throughout the story.
- Gets what she wants even if it effects others around her poorly.
Claim
TOPIC 6
- Teachings highschoolers about how women would get treated in the 1920s (specific gender roles).
- Teaching them how racism isn't good for anyone.
- Teaching them that women need to be treated better than just objects.
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