1. Strange Fruit by Joy Harjo
The way Harjo describes them, the reader cannot be certain whether these 'evil beings' are humans or monsters. ... The protagonist of the play (The African American woman), goes on to say, "My lover told me: Shush, we have too many stories to carry on our backs like houses, we have struggled too long to let the monsters steal our sleep, sleep, go to sleep". ... Ironically, what her lover told her is similar to what a parent would tell their child with a nightmare of seeing monsters, but as the poem goes on, the protagonist says, "But I never woke up", implying th...
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- Approx Pages: 4
- Grade Level: High School