7. A Party Down At The Square

Today, we discussed or rather tried to discuss "A party down at the square". If you think about the story's name, you may get an idea that the focus of the article is a party, where people are having fun. Yes, your guess is right! However, these people's entertainment style is different from the ones who chooses dancing, singing or having conversations to have great time. Unfortunately, these people come together to burn someone, who is black. Only because of his colour, they are lynching him. Only because of his fate that makes him black, they are burning him alive. In my opinion, this event is shame of humanity. Nevertheless, can we consider these people as humanity, who consider themselves superior to another, only because of their colour? I think this is not fair, somebody should stop this oppression on black people and let them live as they desire. We are all humans that desire to live peacefully.

In this article, Ellison is really successful in awaking these ideas in readers. He is also a black people and point out this terrible situation explicitly. Beside from the importance of the message of this article, the techniques that Ellison is using is also crucial. He uses symbolism such as the "Bronz Statue" or "Phenix City"? Do you wonder the meaning of these? I realy wonder, but i haven't got enough idea about them, yet. However, i will try to find in my first free time when i get rid of all my exams. :)

6. The Blue Team

This week, we formed the seminar presentation groups. I am in the blue team with Sevda and Hazal. :) Firstly, we will present "The Lottery" as a practice and later move on to our final presentation. We aim to reflect "the Lottery" through the blue team perspective in a best way. The practice presentation and the final presentation will be on 5th April and 17th May respectively. I think it will be beneficial for us to begin analyzing our short story not to become stressed. Beside from these, i really love my blue team, both Sevda and Hazal have different view points that make our presentation fantastic. As well, i really love preparing power point presentation as a hobby, when all these come together, i hope the final work will be desirable. :)

5. Four Weeks Together

I am awared that days are just flowing but days never flew like this before. I feel myself as a machine that is responsible for doing lots of things at the same time. However, i will overcome. :)
During these four weeks, we first analyzed the adolescence which is a part of the identity topic and then we moved on the racism part. Last week, we interpreted two texts which are "Hailing while black" and "Black men and public sphere". These texts were examining the same issue, the stereotyping of blacks while these two writers approach to policy were really different from each other. Whereas the former writer support was conservatism, the latter one was a supporter of liberalism. Nevertheless, the distinction their political views is not an obstacle for them to engage in the same problem, the problem of blacks. To be honest, being a black person might be really difficult and scaring. I cannot imagine a situation that everyone cares with my colour. This is really difficult to handle. As well, to make these people cope with this situation is also scaring. After reading these texts, i started to examine why people avoid accept these differences. Then, i got the answer and confirmed it during our class discussion. The answer is really open, we afraid, but from what? From losing our authority. We all think that what if they come and demand for more rights. Therefore, most of the people tend to make blacks feel as abnormal. This is really painful and no one desires to feel this pain.
Beside from this racism issue, we interpreted these two texts deeply in a pub quiz. The quiz was really good and i had a chance to understand the contexts in a better way. I hope to have another pub quiz in the future. :)

4. Research Paper

This week, we learnt our research paper questions. I think researching about most of these questions will be interesting. However, i preferred researching about "domestic violence". I plan to correlate poverty and domestic violence and compare the rate of violence in a wealthy country and less wealthy country. During my research, if i encounter with anything more interesting, i will also use them. I hope to have a good job. Good luck to everyone.