THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Because she isn’t a liar
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Because he can sense that she is telling the truth
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Because the stories of slavery needed to be retold from person to person
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Because it is against the law to change past events in a story
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Detailed explanation-1: -It describes an older woman, “Aunt Sue, ” who tells a young child stories about her own and others’ experiences under slavery. The poem honors the value of Black storytelling, illustrating how Black history and the reality of slavery have been preserved through the oral tradition and passed down through generations.
Detailed explanation-2: -"Aunt Sue’s Stories” is about “memory and its transmission through the family unit: Aunt Sue, an African-American woman who has endured the brutality and sorrows of slavery, tells stories of her life to one of her descendants and thus helps keep African-American collective memory of slavery alive” (Jordan 861).
Detailed explanation-3: -It talks about how Langston Hughes moves to the North who is kinder and how the North who shelters many of his children, which means how the North Has a lot more children/people of his color, and the spell of the South is the spell of not being accepted.