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This 3 page paper examines Richard Wright's, "Between the World and Me" and Frederick Douglass', "On Lynching" in order to compare and contrast their literary effectiveness. This paper explores theme, style, title, setting, tone, narractive structure and more in order to highlight the means these authors use to achieve their ends. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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providing evidence of all the horrors one man can inflict upon another. The poem exudes a painful aura, in keeping with its theme. The author has masterfully crafted
this piece in order to reach readers and impart upon them the reality of what a lynching really was about. To see how this was accomplished, we will examine
various components of the poem in order to assess how each works to support the main objective of the work. Specifically, we will assess the role of theme, style,
setting, and narrative structure. The theme of this poem is that of a lynching. However, the word itself does not illuminate
the horrific reality of what actually occurs at a lynching. This poem therefore, serves to inform readers of the actual horrors of a lynching. While we all tend
to know what a lynching is generally, this author highlights the specifics of just what a horrible event a lynching actually is.
Then my blood was cooled mercifully, cooled by a baptism of gasoline. And in a blaze of red I leaped to the sky as pain rose like
water, boiling my limbs panting, begging I clutched childlike, clutched to the hot sides of death (Wright, 2003).
The style that the author employs is imperative as well. This author takes a very creative stylistic approach, opting to reveal the lynching first
through the observances of the narrator, and then through the actual experiences of the narrator. This shift in narrative structure is a powerful creative tool in this piece, because
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