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The Street
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Hold on!
Wait a minute!
Drop everything!
You have got to read this book!
I have read great books, by award winning authors, and masters of the written word. However, this is the first time I wanted to go right out, and get every other work the artist has produced.
Poignant, riveting, masterful.
LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT.
Do yourself a favor, read, “The Street,� by ANN PETRY.
How do I cover this book without a “spoiler alert� � here goes
WE ARE ONE, the greatest error of the people of this world is a failure to grasp, or face and accept this fact. Wealthy, poor; man, woman; laborer, exec; educated, ignorant; Black, white; French, German; Christian, Hindu psychologically we are all the same. We have the same wants, needs, and fears. We all need food, clean water, shelter and we all want our families cared for. We all have hurts, pain; suffering, loneliness; with fleeting moments of joy.
Each and every one of us is a part of a whole. And as such we are to be responsible for each other; I am to love my neighbor next door, as I love the person with whom I share DNA, and I am to love the neighbor 3,000 miles away, as I love the neighbor next door. Until we understand this, and live accordingly we are DOOMED!
We as humans face two major dilemmas sex and race; however, these are respectively the branch and fruit of the poison tree of classism/caste. Chronologically these developed in humanity in this way: first class disparity, then sex, and finally race. And the very same stereotypes and pseudosciences used for oppression and dehumanization in the first were used in all. I’m obliged to add, that the former dilemma (sex), is twofold: on one hand, there is gender disparity; and on the other, there is the binary obsession of either attaining sensate physical pleasure, or repressing it.
[[The words of one of our contemporary writer/historians, Afua Cooper so eloquently and precisely paints a picture of the dilemma that faced the protagonist in her book, “The Hanging of Angélique,� and perfectly expresses the cage that the protagonist of “The Street,� Mrs. Lutie Johnson, finds herself in:
“In this world, White subordinated Black, men had power over women, and those of high rank wielded authority over the less fortunate. Angélique was disadvantaged on all three counts of race, gender, and social status. She chafed under such oppression and had little respect for this world in which she found herself. Alienated from it, she would attempt to destroy it.”]]
Tragic plot, still, well worth the read�
Wait a minute!
Drop everything!
You have got to read this book!
I have read great books, by award winning authors, and masters of the written word. However, this is the first time I wanted to go right out, and get every other work the artist has produced.
Poignant, riveting, masterful.
LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT.
Do yourself a favor, read, “The Street,� by ANN PETRY.
How do I cover this book without a “spoiler alert� � here goes
WE ARE ONE, the greatest error of the people of this world is a failure to grasp, or face and accept this fact. Wealthy, poor; man, woman; laborer, exec; educated, ignorant; Black, white; French, German; Christian, Hindu psychologically we are all the same. We have the same wants, needs, and fears. We all need food, clean water, shelter and we all want our families cared for. We all have hurts, pain; suffering, loneliness; with fleeting moments of joy.
Each and every one of us is a part of a whole. And as such we are to be responsible for each other; I am to love my neighbor next door, as I love the person with whom I share DNA, and I am to love the neighbor 3,000 miles away, as I love the neighbor next door. Until we understand this, and live accordingly we are DOOMED!
We as humans face two major dilemmas sex and race; however, these are respectively the branch and fruit of the poison tree of classism/caste. Chronologically these developed in humanity in this way: first class disparity, then sex, and finally race. And the very same stereotypes and pseudosciences used for oppression and dehumanization in the first were used in all. I’m obliged to add, that the former dilemma (sex), is twofold: on one hand, there is gender disparity; and on the other, there is the binary obsession of either attaining sensate physical pleasure, or repressing it.
[[The words of one of our contemporary writer/historians, Afua Cooper so eloquently and precisely paints a picture of the dilemma that faced the protagonist in her book, “The Hanging of Angélique,� and perfectly expresses the cage that the protagonist of “The Street,� Mrs. Lutie Johnson, finds herself in:
“In this world, White subordinated Black, men had power over women, and those of high rank wielded authority over the less fortunate. Angélique was disadvantaged on all three counts of race, gender, and social status. She chafed under such oppression and had little respect for this world in which she found herself. Alienated from it, she would attempt to destroy it.”]]
Tragic plot, still, well worth the read�
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October 10, 2024
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October 10, 2024
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October 10, 2024
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December, 2024
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