Notes

1) Structure
There is a difference between the pain in her tooth when she is in the black area and the white area. (In the middle of page 19)
She writes in italics when she describes her imagination. (P.22-23)
Goes against own trend; There is two sides to the event. (P.22-23)


2) Credibility
She goes against her own trend; there is two side to the event (---//---)
She has credibility when she talks about her own experience.
She has credibility by showing the story from two angles. Her own and her mom’s. Even though her story might not be true, it still gains to her credibility.


3) Language:
Powhitetrash children → describing the whites negatively (page 19)
Idiotic snobbery → describing whites negatively (page 19)


4) Wider context (poem) and title
Free bird → the whites
Caged birds → the blacks


5) Circumstances
Jim Crow
Separation between whites and blacks
Reconstruction - not accomplished


Structure and credibility:
Italics
Goes against own trend → credible

Language and circumstances:
metaphors or symbols used to described circumstances (circumstances: “She sits in the back of the bus…”, because of the circumstances)
Bridge between whites and blacks (separated) → quote at page 19


Language and structure:
How does the language change in italics


Wider context and circumstances:
The caged birds sing, because that is the only thing they can do to be heard