Journal #6 Due Sept. 22

After reading Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (763-791) and Child's, “The Quadroons” (http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/abfilmcat.html) answer ONE of the following questions about social context (you may write about a single major or minor character in your posting). Remember to use specific examples from the texts to support your points: 1. Class: How does membership in a social class affect the characters' choices and their successes or failures? How does class affect the way characters view-- or are viewed by-- others? What do economic struggles reveal about power relationships in the society being depicted? 2. Race and culture: How are characters portrayed as being caught between cultures? Are any characters engaged in a conflict with society because of their races or ethnic backgrounds? 3. Gender: How are the characters' choices restricted because of gender? What are the power relationships between the sexes, and do these change during the course of the story? Do any characters resist the gender roles society has assigned to them? Do other characters choose to conform to those roles?
Post your journal before class on Sept. 22, 2011

Harriet Jacobs
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