*
juxtaposition:sterotypical racists attitudes
exclamatory followed by caesura:
anguish, impassioned voice
attitudes are being includated
religious lexis demonstrates now these racist
THE LITTLE BLACK BOY by the church
innocent
# firts person narrator -
child
⑥
My mother bore me in the southern wild, unspecified
superior
country:s ets
British
the
boy up as
primitive an outsider/lesser than
And I am black, but oh! my soul is white. ·uhiteissymbolic ofpurity
andfaithfulness:
his skin color masses
White as an angel is the English child: reflects
double standards w hite
that is assumed to be
synoymus with
But I am black as if bereaved of light. goodness
Child has
black
+
absorbed
'evil'
the
-
an
negative
argumentt ojustify
attitudes of
colonisation. The
society.
-
Parells us to highlightimportance -
↑
My mother taught me underneath a tree, symbol ofp astoral
and protection.
world
And sitting down before the heat of day
⑥
She took me on her lap and kissed me, affection
-good rel
and tenderous
parents
with
And pointing to the east began to say:
gesture
his love
towards sun:
being
available
symbolic of god
to an...
and
focus on
to western
an alternative
assumptions
ideology
where black
imperative:
voice mother
of people are oppressed
‘Look on the rising sun! There God does live, God presented
She is teach-
1
as benevolent
ing her son/ is +
didactic effect giving generous light+life with
-
And gives his light and gives his heat away; discrimination.
out
And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive
list:abundance
synthetic
Comfort in morning, joy in the noon day.
↓
being goasand
in
presence:metaphorically suggests brevity of rise /
light spiritual comfort h ardship endurance
very:
brings individuals
insignifance
-
‘And we are put on earth a little space, negative
explicitly
lexis
linked
implys suffering
skip
to colour
struggle
That we may learn to bear the beams of love; She
skin
reframes
colour to
the
of
concept
suggesti ti s
his
a
And these black bodies and this sun-burnt face Positive
loved
created
God
by being too
by
& Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove.
thatskin
metaphor implies body are
temporaryconditions.
⑨
‘For when our souls have learned the heat to bear suggests
hardships
both
learning
accepting
+
Gods
to endure
love
The cloud will vanish; we shall hear his voice,
*
dramatic eventthat
suggests release
Saying: ‘Come out from the grove my love and care, God benevolent:paternal
-
-
signos
And round my golden tent like lambs rejoice.’ ’ *
emphasises
with God a
in
joy athumanity
paradise where
reunited
skin
God:shepard protector Yuninocentchildren colour is irrelevent.
and purity
innocent
voice ofchild
compliance reiteration ofh e r speaking:
Thus did my mother say and kissed me,
And thus I say to little English boy. assumed associationbetween narrative
the
reader
intervention
in the voice
directly addressing
of black child
the
When I from black and he from white cloud free, boys -
both are
equally trapped regardless of race
And round the tent of God like lambs we joy:echoshismotherswords- hamony andequalityindocrinin one
I’ll shade him from the heat till he can bear
⑥
metaphorically
child as he i s hespeakerwill project the met een
To lean in joy upon our father’s knee. child # superiority:r o l e reversal + power over while parental role
And then I'll stand and stroke his silver hair, ↳
angelic superior
And be like him and he will then love me.
autonomicals, the while chids *mhose
approval speaker
the seeks is viewed
as
superior ingrained sense
-
of
otherness inferiority
asa re s u l tof
racial divisions
juxtaposition:sterotypical racists attitudes
exclamatory followed by caesura:
anguish, impassioned voice
attitudes are being includated
religious lexis demonstrates now these racist
THE LITTLE BLACK BOY by the church
innocent
# firts person narrator -
child
⑥
My mother bore me in the southern wild, unspecified
superior
country:s ets
British
the
boy up as
primitive an outsider/lesser than
And I am black, but oh! my soul is white. ·uhiteissymbolic ofpurity
andfaithfulness:
his skin color masses
White as an angel is the English child: reflects
double standards w hite
that is assumed to be
synoymus with
But I am black as if bereaved of light. goodness
Child has
black
+
absorbed
'evil'
the
-
an
negative
argumentt ojustify
attitudes of
colonisation. The
society.
-
Parells us to highlightimportance -
↑
My mother taught me underneath a tree, symbol ofp astoral
and protection.
world
And sitting down before the heat of day
⑥
She took me on her lap and kissed me, affection
-good rel
and tenderous
parents
with
And pointing to the east began to say:
gesture
his love
towards sun:
being
available
symbolic of god
to an...
and
focus on
to western
an alternative
assumptions
ideology
where black
imperative:
voice mother
of people are oppressed
‘Look on the rising sun! There God does live, God presented
She is teach-
1
as benevolent
ing her son/ is +
didactic effect giving generous light+life with
-
And gives his light and gives his heat away; discrimination.
out
And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive
list:abundance
synthetic
Comfort in morning, joy in the noon day.
↓
being goasand
in
presence:metaphorically suggests brevity of rise /
light spiritual comfort h ardship endurance
very:
brings individuals
insignifance
-
‘And we are put on earth a little space, negative
explicitly
lexis
linked
implys suffering
skip
to colour
struggle
That we may learn to bear the beams of love; She
skin
reframes
colour to
the
of
concept
suggesti ti s
his
a
And these black bodies and this sun-burnt face Positive
loved
created
God
by being too
by
& Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove.
thatskin
metaphor implies body are
temporaryconditions.
⑨
‘For when our souls have learned the heat to bear suggests
hardships
both
learning
accepting
+
Gods
to endure
love
The cloud will vanish; we shall hear his voice,
*
dramatic eventthat
suggests release
Saying: ‘Come out from the grove my love and care, God benevolent:paternal
-
-
signos
And round my golden tent like lambs rejoice.’ ’ *
emphasises
with God a
in
joy athumanity
paradise where
reunited
skin
God:shepard protector Yuninocentchildren colour is irrelevent.
and purity
innocent
voice ofchild
compliance reiteration ofh e r speaking:
Thus did my mother say and kissed me,
And thus I say to little English boy. assumed associationbetween narrative
the
reader
intervention
in the voice
directly addressing
of black child
the
When I from black and he from white cloud free, boys -
both are
equally trapped regardless of race
And round the tent of God like lambs we joy:echoshismotherswords- hamony andequalityindocrinin one
I’ll shade him from the heat till he can bear
⑥
metaphorically
child as he i s hespeakerwill project the met een
To lean in joy upon our father’s knee. child # superiority:r o l e reversal + power over while parental role
And then I'll stand and stroke his silver hair, ↳
angelic superior
And be like him and he will then love me.
autonomicals, the while chids *mhose
approval speaker
the seeks is viewed
as
superior ingrained sense
-
of
otherness inferiority
asa re s u l tof
racial divisions
