1. The imagery in chapter four affects the narrator because he begins to think about past events that happened, such as with the road. These events allow him to think different about the campus, and he see it as a threat.
2. The narrator dislikes Trueblood and the people at the bar because he could get expelled for the setting he is in. Also because he is just another black student with potential but racial injustice threaten his future.
3. The effect of comparing the building to an old plantation house is pretty deep. Since the building looks like one of those that where owned by slave masters it was easy to get that perception. Also the narrators feels threatened because he is black, and Mr. Norton is white which adds to the irony the narrator is going through.
4. Dr. Bledsoe achieved his power in society because he basically went alomg with the culture at the time and knelt down to the white man. He sought to make the white man happy, and he carried himself well.
5. The mirror and aquarium are metaphors because they give off great meanings that impact the message of the story. The mirrors shows how the narrator and Dr. Bledsoe changes their personality on how they address white people. They struggle with whether to bow down or live a life of their own. While the aquarium just shows how far the black generation has came yet ti still be behind.
Chapter 5
1. The rhetorical argument between the blood shot eye and the moon is that the white man always has his eyes on the actions of black people. Although that person may have been through a lot and has been torn a part the eye also represents how the white man may see a black man as a threat.
2. The overall tone is mainly sarcasm. The author is sarcastic about things and talks dowm on them as well.
3. The importance of the italicized passage is to show how important the narrator's feelings are about the things that are going on now and from his past.
4. The text says Dr. Bledsoe had the decorum of a portly head waiter. This is significant because it shows the inequality between him and the trustees. They had more power but he was more sharp.
5. Rev. Barbee alludes to the different figures of Christianity and the days of slavery.
6. The founders death was seen as a good thing because the things he created and worked for began to flourish, including his teachings.
7. Sound devices are used the portray the meaning of the word black throughout the story. The story if portrayed in a dark world full of hate. Most of the things the reverend says he is blind too.but tries to make others see the light of it.
8. The rhetorical effect of Rev. Barbee being blind is that he tries to teach to other his unwavering faith and how he is so committed to the founder. He wants to show that his blindess does not change his allegiance toward the founder.
9. The narrator see the images of a Mockingbird perched up with a note also bright lights under the head of a kneeling slave.
Chapter 6
1. His posture is mainly relaxed then it begins to change.
2. Dr. Bledsoe is mad at the narrator because he allowed Mr. Norton to see things that happened in the blacl community amd take him place he should not have. This is also important because Dr. Bledsoe haa modeled perception of a black community.
3. Dr. Bledsoe's ideas are similar because it talks about how black become yes men to whites, and how they will tell the white man a lie just to impress them and get on their side.
4. The narrator discontinues to listen to him and keeps referring to how he was called "that" referring to the N word.
5. The weak handshake with a lack of firmness foreshadows how weak of a man and how little of help Bledsoe will be in the future.
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