Setting: Another Country takes place in Harlem, France, Greenwich Village and other locales throughout numerous incidents in this literary work. ... Literary Style: According to Langston Hughes, "Baldwin uses words as the sea uses waves, to flow and beat, advance and retreat, rise and take a bow in disappearing....The thought becomes poetry and the poetry illuminates the thought." ... Meaning of Title: The title of the novel Another Country stipulates two explicit terms: love and racism. ...

• Word Count: 1203
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Something else that must be mentioned in order to understand the evils of school censorship are facts censors ignore; the first being literary quality. ... The derogatory terms in the book are not used to put down African Americans, but to provide valuable in sight to the lives and opinions of the people of the pre-emancipated south. ...

• Word Count: 942
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The Harlem Renaissance, as the name given to this whole bunch of artistic and literary revivals, is believed to have begun in 1923 with Jean Toomer's novel Cane. ... Countee Cullen's "Incident" is another striking one in terms of how it makes the reader feel. ...

• Word Count: 750
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

This literary, artistic, and intellectual movement, centered in New York's Harlem, kindled a new African-American cultural identity by celebrating black traditions and the black voice. ... Alice illustrates this, "You mustn't think in terms of getting even with them [white people], you must accept whatever they do for you and try to prove yourself worthy to be entrusted with more." ...

• Word Count: 1898
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

SECTION 1 - Short Answer 1) Ida B. Wells maintained her anti-lynching campaign throughout her life despite her constant fear of death by her oppressors. When the entire passage is taken into context, it explains her actions and the amazing courage that she possessed. "I felt that one had better d...

• Word Count: 4173
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School