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This short story is about soldiers who carry more than just materialistic things with them everyday. They carry their own struggles on their shoulders as well as the guilt of other soldiers dying. This picture represents the men who were there for each other but felt guilty for whatever happened to their peers.

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Willy, a salesman from New York worked his whole life teaching his children how to become productive citizens of society, and working hard only to die the moment he is rewarded. This picture is of a man walking to his death in his business.

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This is a story about a troop of African-American girls who go to a camp called Camp Crescendo. Right away they notice a troop of white girls and start talking about them behind their backs. Some of the girls in the black group swear that the girls from troop 909, the white girls, called them “niggers”. The whole time at camp all they want to do is beat up the white girls. Once they get the opportunity they find out the white girls are mentally handicap.

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This is a short story by Ralph Ellison. It is a story about a young black man, who had recently graduated high school. He lives in the south, and was invited to give a speech at a gathering that held the towns leading white citizens. Where he was told to take part in a battle royal, with nine other black men. After the fight and the speech he was awarded with a calfskin brief case and a scholarship to the state college for Negros.

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In Toni Cade Bambara, The Lesson, it describes a group of children living in a poor part of New York City. The author used the element characterization, which helped in understanding the characters that were in this story. They seem to be satisfied living in poverty. One character, Miss Moore, the children’s self-appointed tutor, takes it upon herself to help the kids further their education since she is the one who went to college. She took the children to a fancy part of town and used F.A.O. Schwarz, a really expensive toy store, to teach them a lesson and inspire them to strive for success and attempt to better themselves and their situations. The narrator is at that age where she feels that she knows everything. “Back in the days when everyone was old and stupid or young and foolish and me and Sugar were the only ones just right, this lady moved on our block with nappy hair and proper speech and no makeup.” (Bambara 414)

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In the short story “Everyday Use,” the theme is the representation of the harmony as well as the conflicts and struggles that the African American culture faces. An encounter takes place when Dee, which is the only member in the family to receive a formal education, and her friend return to visit Dee’s mother and younger sister Maggie. It is an encounter between two different understandings of African American culture.  Walker uses symbolism and characterization to explain that culture and heritage are parts of daily life. Quilts in "Everyday Use" symbolize family heritage.

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Langston Hughes does a good job of putting words in his poem that show imagery such as, "I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins". He states a lot that his soul has "grown deep" like the rivers. In my opinion he uses these examples to show how he has aged like the rivers. Hughes writes this poem in first person point of view, but he uses the word "I" to describe all of African Americans. I chose this picture because it states, "I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it".

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In this short poem by Langston Hughes, he wonders what happens to a deferred dream. He wonders if it drys up, does it stink like rotten meat? Maybe it even sags..I used a picture of sun dried raisins to symbolize when the speaker says, "does it dry up like a raisin in the sun"?

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In this short story it is thought to be that the woman is the one that killed her husband. Her house was always a mess, but I think that was on purpose. This short story kind of reminded me of the story "Trifles". When the detectives went into the home they tell the women not to miss any clues. They piece together the clues they find of the woman and decide to conceal the evidence that could incriminate her. The picture I posted is of the dead canary the women find.

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In my opinion, this short story was sad. This woman seems to be suffering from depression. She absolutely did not like the yellow wallpaper in their room. It seems like she would find anything wrong with it, maybe it was representing her own life and what she was feeling.

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I always enjoy reading murder mystery stories. In this particular case Mr. Hale was going over to John Wrights house to see if he wanted to install a phone. When he got to the house, there was a weird feeling in the home. He asked to speak to John and the wife said no, eventually telling Mr. Hale that John had be strangled to death. This woman has good friends, they found evidence in the home that could lead Mrs. Wright to an arrest for murdering her husband, but the sheriff and coroner didn't find anything. I chose this picture to symbolize the ladies keeping quiet about what they found.

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This story is about a mother who is always nagging at her daughter to do things a certain way. She is constantly telling her what she should, should not, and how to be doing things. I'm sure she is just trying to do the right thing in raising her daughter right, but might not see that she is being a little to over barring. I chose a picture of a "bossy mom" meme to go along with the bossy mom in the story

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I enjoyed this short story more than I thought I would. It is a short story of a women who finds out her husband has died, and while she seems to mourn in the first of the story, she actually starts to be happy. She is finally able to break free from the chains (marriage). I chose to put this lyric video from the song "Bird Set Free" by Sia. It is supposed to symbolize Mrs. Mallard being "Free, free, free!" (p.71)