Friday, March 14, 2008
Wright using parenthesis
Recently in the book, Wright has been using long paragraphs enclosed in parenthesis more commonly. One example of this is the first paragraph on page 267. I am not going to typed out the entire paragraph because it is quite long. But when Wright uses the parenthesis in the book it seems to be when he is explaining what he was thinking or how he was thinking at the time. I think this a good way to do this, and I think it is important to the story to get this information. In this particular paragraph Wright is talking about what it meant to be black in America, and how he "began to forge in the depths of my mind a mechanism that repressed all the dreams and desires that the Chicago streets, the newspapers, the movies were invoking in me." Not only is using asyndeton here like we talked about it class, but he is talking about how he tried to not dream about things that were coming naturally to him in his everyday life. He is in a way having us be in his mind, and know what he is was thinking at the time which is really interesting, and helps to explain some things.
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