Danny Gilham
May 14, 2007, 2007
Lit 11 1st period Siegmund
Realism Project

1. A Story of an Hour
a> This paragraph explains good details too, it gives a setting also. But to me, I think that when she was explaining the details she lacked. Some one was opening the front door with a latchkey. It was Brently Mallard who entered, a little travel-stained, composedly carrying his grip-sack and umbrella. He had been far from the scene of accident, and did not even know there had been one. He stood amazed at Josephine's piercing cry; at Richards' quick motion to screen him from the view of his wife.
b> The social issue was that Kate’s husband die, and she doesn’t know how to handle it. She was like a wife overlooked by her husband. This story was basically a joy that kills.
2. Fredrick Douglass story Negro Breaker
a> This paragraph is a good example, it gives all details and explain all ways. No thinking in this paragraph the details is already there. It details the actions that are going on and a little about the setting. Sunday was my only leisure time. I spent this in a sort of beast- like stupor, between sleep and wake, under some large tree. At times I would rise up, a flash of energetic freedom would dart through my soul, accompanied with a faint gleam of hope that flickered for a moment, and then vanished. I sank down again, mourning over my wretched condition. I was sometimes prompted to take my life and that of Covey, but was prevented by a combination of hope and fear. Mr. Edward Covey, the slave owner. Bill Smith, William Hughes, Eli and the narrator are the slaves. Bill runs away for about a week because Mr. Covey kicks and abuses him. On the journey meeting new people asking them should he go back? When he returns he basically gives Mr. Covey a fight for his manhood.
b> To me Fredrick Douglass wanted to let his knowledge out about how he thinks it should really happen. Slavery is realism because it was the real world back then, and it explain how it happened in details that gives you good enough of information to understand it.
3. My example is of course a verse from my favorite rapper Jay-Z. He is realism period, his hole Blueprint Album. Because it details his life and how it really is in the hood. Not acting but reality. In one of his verse on The Black album, on this song call Lucifer. He talks about the devil. It goes,
"Lord forgive him, he got them dark forces in him
But he also got a righteous cause for sinnin
Them-a-murder me, so I gotta murder-dem
First emergency, doctors performing procedures
Jesus, I ain't tryin to be facetious, but
"Vengeance is mine" said the Lord
You said it better than all
Leave n***** on death's door, breathing on
res-por-rators for killin my best, poor haters
On permanent, hi-atus as I skate
in the Maybach Benz, flyer than Sanaa Lathan
Pumpin "Brown Sugar" by D'Angelo
In Los Angeles, like an evangelist
I can introduce you to your maker
Bring you closer to nature
Ashes after they cremate you bastards
Hope you been readin your Psalms and chapters
Payin your tithe, bein good Catholics, I'm comin". I like the way he used Lucifer in a good way even though it’s crazy. Realism is a perfect word for this song and Album because it shows the real world using realistic facts, but at the same time it shoes details, and what ifs about the real world.