İNGİLİZ/AMERİKAN EDEBİYATI I - Deneme Sınavı - 12

Dee tells that her name is now Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo. She says she cannot bear to be named after her oppressors. The mother tells that Dee is the name of her aunt and the name traces back to generations. Dee does not accept it and insists on her new name. The answer is A.

The story is closely associated to Alice Walker’s life like Maggie’s scars, she lost the sight of one eye and like Dee she went to city for education. The answer is C.

The setting of the story is mainly the yard of the house the mother and Maggie lives in. The house is depicted as having three rooms with a roof made of tin. The house is located in a rural landscape and has a poor outlook. Instead of real windows, there are holes on the sides. The answer is B.

The short story Like a Winding Sheet is written by, an African American writer, Ann Petry.

She received a graduate degree in Pharmacy.

Ann Petry married a New York mystery writer, George D. Petry. After her marriage she moved to Harlem, New York. She found a position in Amsterdam News and a women paper The People Voice as an advertising person and a reporter.

Another important figure against racism was Martin Luther King and he played another great role on increasing the awareness of civil rights for the black community. He was a clergyman and a prominent leader of African American civil rights movement. On August 28, 1963 there was a march in Washington DC and there Martin Luther King made his famous speech “I Have a Dream” which helped many to become aware of civil rights.

The geographical story is not clearly stated, yet the line says that; “It was a long ride to Harlem and tonight the thought of it appalled him” From the line above it is now clear that the geographical setting is Harlem, New York and United States of America.

Johnson notices the red lipstick on his boss. “He stood motionless for a moment and turned away from the red lipstick on her mouth that made him remember that the foremen was a women”. Here it is possible to say that the lipstick symbolizes the woman which reminds Johnson his family values. In the restaurant the white coffee serving lady is described with her scarlet lipstick. “He wanted to do was hit her so hard that the scarlet lipstick on her mouth would smear and spread over her nose, her chin, out toward her cheeks; so hard that she would never toss her head again and refuse a man a cup of coffee because he was black”. As the conflict progresses so the madness of Johnson, the lipstick symbolizes white woman.

Awinding sheet is a fabric which is used to cover and burry a body. In the story winding sheet might be used to indicate and foreshadow events. It is the physical death of Mae and psychological death of Johnson. It symbolizes death.

The story is third person narration. The narration has full of imagery that makes the text rich in words and understanding. The events are seen through Johnson’s eyes. The readers know what Johnson thinks in certain situations. The readers may feel themselves trapped in Johnson’s mind and feel the real sensitivity of the character. So the text may become more lifelike.

Mae

She is a black woman and she is Johnson’s wife. She also works in a night shift. She has more sense of humor than her husband Johnson. She does not make racism a problem as much as her husband. After work she comes home before Johnson and when he is in she complains about few things. Johnson cannot bear the complaints and the jokes that Mae makes and he starts hitting her, may be, to death. Nevertheless, symbolically it is not the death of Mae but the spiritual death of Johnson. He acts against the values that he has been raised with. She is the victim of the society in some sense, because society makes Johnson mad and Johnson harms Mae. In other words, Johnson may not have the courage to hit a white woman superior then himself just like his boss or the coffee serving lady. They are both white and literally they are superior to the black man in a racist society. The fact here is that Mae is a black woman and black women are inferior to black men. So Mae is the only person Johnson may use his physical power on.

Johnson is always late for work and has pain on his legs. That is the main reason why he is
late for work. He cannot rest his aching legs. He is tired of the pain on his legs as well as the
racist ideas of the society.

She is proud of her manly appearance she says: “I can kill and clean a hog as merciless as a man. My fat keeps me hot in zero weather. I can work outside all day, breaking ice to get water for washing; I can eat pork liver cooked over the open fire minutes after it comes steaming from the hog. One winter I knocked a bull calf straight in the brain between the eyes with a sledge hammer and had the meat hung up to chill before nightfall. (p.280).” The answer is D.

His actual relationship to Dee is not acknowledged. The narrator of the story, the mother does not even want to learn whether he and Dee are married or not. Thus, she does not ask what the actual relation between him and Dee is. Therefore; the answer is D.

In its simplest definition point of view is the perspective from which the story is told. The story Everyday Use is told though a first person point of view. The mother is the narrator of the story and the story is told only from her point of view. The answer is A.

Irony is an expression of meaning which is used to indicate the opposite of its literary meaning. We can see some examples of irony in the characters of the story. Dee is an educated, sophisticated young woman and she seems to know everything. Despite her education at college, it is ironic that she does not know much about her family’s inheritance. She is only superficially interested in the quilts and wants to hang them on the walls. The answer is C.

The Black Power Movement grew out of the Civil Rights Movement, which accelerated in the 1950s and 1960s. It is a turning point for the black-white relations. It was not easy for blacks to gain equal rights with whites even after they won the right to vote and slavery was abolished. The movement aimed to help the blacks gain their social, political and economic rights in the society and achieve equality in all aspects of social life. However, it is often associated with violence and militant actions. Although on the surface the blacks and whites seemed equal, in reality the blacks received low wages and were exposed to racial discrimination. The Black Power Movement grew out of the oppression the black people felt. It was not a legal or formal association and did not have a central leadership. The answer is E.

Woody Allen has claustrophobia and agoraphobia because of which he had to attend psychoanalysis sessions for over thirty seven years. He has reflected these in his works. The answer is A.

He began producing short jokes to be sold for newspaper columnists and he started his career by by writing jokes for newspapers. The answer is D.