Final Post #5

5 Things I Understand

• Howard finally left the south and headed home after his 5 month journey in the south as a black man.
• When he gets home he is unsure whether he would still be welcomed into his parents home, but he was when he got there.
• When he gets home, he had learned of people burning crosses outside if his home.
• He received abusive letters from many white southerners.

4 Questions i have

• whose idea was it to leave for Mexico to start a new life?
• Does he think his life is in danger?
• who is that person that planned to castrate him?
• where does he go from here?

3 Literary Techniques

• Oxymoron (157) : "Their silence was eloquent and devastating".
• Man Vs Man: don't expect me to get excited over this " historical turning point". (178)
• Man vs society: " a new sign had came, NO ALBINOS ALLOWED".

2 Vocab Words

• Incessantly:
• Laudable:

1 Sentence Summary

Howard returns back home to racial real life personal discrimination. but he comes above to talk about his experience as a black man and what really was like to walk in their shoes.

Journal Entry 4

5 Things I Understand

• Whites are targeting with rather mental hate against him.
• he is so fed up with it and scared he doesn't want to to be black anymore.
• The situation was too much to handle for him.
• He tries to "assimilate" back into white culture by rubbing his skin till it was white, and where clothes to make his black skin look white.
• his shift back to his own race seemed to work when he was welcomed into an all white bar and nobody recognized that he was black.

4 Questions

• How much rubbing does it take to turn his skin back to white?
• Has he now know what it feels like to be a Negro in the south or just a Negro period?
• Does he still posses some black pigmentation?
• No he is back to white is he going to still stay in the south?

3 Literary Techniques

• Man vs Himself (122): " my heart sickened as a remained a Negro".
• Oxymoron (127): George Washington carver hangs so strongly.... radiates an atmosphere of respect and human dignity".
• Simile(127): " black students are more dignified than white students".

2 Vocab Words

• Prominent( 146):
• Subtler (147):

1 Sentence Summary

it seems Howard has switched from being a negro back to white because he could not handle the pressure anymore.

Journal Entry 3

5 Things I Understand

• He stays there dispite the threats he gets.
• he travels farther into the south to the town of Biloxi, Mississippi.
• To kepp beaches up, whites enforce a tax on gallons of gas in ehich everytime a negroe bought a gallon of gas, a penny would go to to the beach to keep it up for white use.
• While walking he was approached by many white people even ofered rides.
• during that he was often asked about sexual references of that of a negroe.

4 Questions

• Why wasn't he scared when he got into the cars?
• why was the subjects in the car often about sexual things of a negroe?
• is there a confliction of beliefs between blacks and white?
• who are these random people?

3 Literary Techniques

• Oxymoron (105): "the heavy air of evening putrid with swamp rot smelled flagrant".
• Personification (105): " The woods issued no song".
• Simile (110): "silivated so heavenly the chocolate dribbled syrup like".

2 Vocab Words

• Delapidated (85):
• Impugn (87):

1 Sentence Summary

The deeper he goes into the south, the racial tensions continue to rise amongst blacks and white.

Journal Entry 2

5 Things I Understand

• in the south Howard is experiencing racial discrimination now that he is a negroe.
• the first is when he wanted to get off at his top but the white bus driver dropped him off 8 blocks away from his stop.
• A new quest comes along, that he wants to go deeper into the racial tensions betweens blacks and whites by going to the most hated place for blacks: Mississippi.
• first impressions in MS is that negroes get comfort from their own race, and people are nice there.
• I feel as if so far as a negroe he has not gone through what many go through everyday in the segregated south.

4 Questions

• What is he thinking going to Mississippi?
• how long does he plan on being there?
• what is the significance of the four words on pg 69?
• why is he in a man's home that doesn't like negroes?

3 Literary Techniques

• Personification(p70) "bitterness dissolved in our delight"
• Simile (p61): we turned like a small herd of cattle and drifted back to our seats".
• Man vs Man (61): no sir, then you'd do as i say"

2 Vocab Words

• Monochrome (61):
• Emanated (62):

One sentence Summary:

Howard befins the true test of being a negroe in the dangerous state for blacks, Mississippi.