Importance of Education
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Desirees Baby put a lot of things in perspective for me. You can be a certain color but that does not determine your race. In this story there was a lot of love and confusion. Armand and Desiree shared a lot of emotions together that changed the both of them. The main three things that I saw a lot of in this story was cyclical plotting, natural imagery, and contrast.
In Desirees Baby, Desiree was abandoned on the side of the road by her parents when she was younger. She grew up and met a man named Armand they got married and had a baby. After the baby started to get older everybody started to notice that the baby started to get darker. As time went on the husband start to question the wifes race. The husband blamed Desiree for been black and told her to leave. So once again she was put told to get out and leave. So the cyclical plotting is that Dersiree was abandoned as a child now she was being abandoned by her husband.
The Contrast in this story is that Desiree and Armand came from two different worlds. Armand knew who his mother and father where but Desiree didnt she only knew Madame Valmonde and Monsieur. At first before the baby started to look darker Armand was gentle with his slaves, after he became mean and unruly with them. Armand dismisses Desiree from their living place. When he is in the fields burning the old letters from Desiree, Armand finds a letter from his mother where she is telling his father that he would never know his mother was a slave.
The natural imagery in this story was describing cotton fields, still fields, sluggish bayous, reeds and willow that grew thick. The cotton fields are what the slaves kept up and picked for Armand. The still fields were the grass that had not been cut and the wind was not blowing through so it was still. Sluggish bayous were muddy swamps that served as no purpose. The reeds and willows grew thick and brushy on the trees that was what you got in Louisiana during this story.
In conclusion to this Desiree and Armand was once in love but that shows how nothing is perfect. You never know how things can come to a halt or change. I feel like Armand was wrong for dismissing Desiree just because the baby was black and he assumed it was her who was part of a slave. Sometimes looks can be deceiving but facts never are. Sometimes your color does not tell your backgroun