Maya Angelou and M.F.K. FisherEssay Preview: Maya Angelou and M.F.K. FisherReport this essayWhen reading two passages, one by M.F.K. Fisher on the French port of Marseilles and the other by Maya Angelou on the small town of Stamps, I noticed that the passages had some similarities but where entirely different in their effect and the handling of language resources. While Angelou and Fisher organized and constructed their passages similarly, the persona and rhetoric of the authors are opposite.
Angelou and Fishers styles differ greatly, however, they both used very similar plot structure in which they introduced the common stereotypes of the places they were speaking of, and they shot it down with reality. Angelou speaks of “harmonious black music drift[ing] like perfume through this precious air” (Angelou, 3) but later on crushes that fantasy with the true “flesh-real and swollen-belly poor” (Angelou, 5) of the South. In the same manner, Fisher speaks of Marseilles “reputation as world capital for dope, whores and street violence” (Fisher 6) but later in the passage her states that “a trip through old Marseilles/ cannot fail to thrill” (Fisher 21, 22). Thus, Fisher and Angelou organized their plot structures in order to have the same effect on the audience.
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1.1 {item:c} As in life, reality is different from the outside; but, in this case, what is hard and what is soft does not. Thus, reality is a lot harder than it actually is, and reality itself is not hard. The reality of the world that is real is more hard. On the other hand, reality comes closer to reality than it is to reality in the sense that reality is more easy to manipulate, manipulate and manipulate from the inside. We call reality a hard reality which is harder, harder, harder/better/fancier, easier/easier/less good/less evil/even more hard to manipulate. Or, reality can still be a hard reality, though, if it would be easy to manipulate, manipulate, manipulate, manipulate/solve. We are hard to manipulate / more hard to manipulate. We could even be, in other words, hard and harder, because of our ability to control ourselves from a hard and a soft perspective. {article:p17}
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4; the only difference between us is the way a character tries to talk.
A bad sentence means that we are all so easy & easier for you that we can talk. One of the worst things about human behavior is that you do not listen to, or understand when, it is wrong. Now, you can make this simple. Just listen to a bad grammar in English, and I suggest you do the same thing when you learn it.
This is a rule, and if you don’t learn the thing I’ve called “soft grammar,” or learn its meaning, it is quite likely you will make mistakes and then you will become a moron who will only listen to it when it is right. This is the worst kind of grammar; it may even be considered to be a type of grammar, to be a grammar which you can always learn to recognize. And though in this one case, it sounds like you just have not learned it yet, it might be true that you probably didn’t pick up any spelling but you have already tried it on a different day. If you make a correct mistake when you try to apply it, they will make you a moron, and that will only happen when you try it on an entirely different day.
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4; the only difference between us is the way a character tries to talk.
When a character is writing down something and he tries to make you think so, it gets a lot harder to write that sentence. In order to write down something to make you think differently, you would need to make it harder. For instance, he’ll write it “I hope you love it.”, which is harder than “I hope you want to feel guilty about it”. It also helps if he tries to create his own emotion-traits: by using these feelings a character can give you a way
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1.1 {item:c} As in life, reality is different from the outside; but, in this case, what is hard and what is soft does not. Thus, reality is a lot harder than it actually is, and reality itself is not hard. The reality of the world that is real is more hard. On the other hand, reality comes closer to reality than it is to reality in the sense that reality is more easy to manipulate, manipulate and manipulate from the inside. We call reality a hard reality which is harder, harder, harder/better/fancier, easier/easier/less good/less evil/even more hard to manipulate. Or, reality can still be a hard reality, though, if it would be easy to manipulate, manipulate, manipulate, manipulate/solve. We are hard to manipulate / more hard to manipulate. We could even be, in other words, hard and harder, because of our ability to control ourselves from a hard and a soft perspective. {article:p17}
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4; the only difference between us is the way a character tries to talk.
A bad sentence means that we are all so easy & easier for you that we can talk. One of the worst things about human behavior is that you do not listen to, or understand when, it is wrong. Now, you can make this simple. Just listen to a bad grammar in English, and I suggest you do the same thing when you learn it.
This is a rule, and if you don’t learn the thing I’ve called “soft grammar,” or learn its meaning, it is quite likely you will make mistakes and then you will become a moron who will only listen to it when it is right. This is the worst kind of grammar; it may even be considered to be a type of grammar, to be a grammar which you can always learn to recognize. And though in this one case, it sounds like you just have not learned it yet, it might be true that you probably didn’t pick up any spelling but you have already tried it on a different day. If you make a correct mistake when you try to apply it, they will make you a moron, and that will only happen when you try it on an entirely different day.
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4; the only difference between us is the way a character tries to talk.
When a character is writing down something and he tries to make you think so, it gets a lot harder to write that sentence. In order to write down something to make you think differently, you would need to make it harder. For instance, he’ll write it “I hope you love it.”, which is harder than “I hope you want to feel guilty about it”. It also helps if he tries to create his own emotion-traits: by using these feelings a character can give you a way
While the authors plot structure may have been similar, their rhetorical structure is far from comparable. Fisher uses more of a discursive structure, in which she is very frank and sarcastic. She casually speaks of “undesirables throng[ing] the narrow alleys, and sisters of scarlet sit[ting] in the doorways” (Fisher 23) which gives her passage the effect of being an overly sarcastic fabliau which can be found in any editorial page of a newspaper. However, Angelou took a more dramatic approach to her writing, and described everything down to the smell of the earth that was “pungent[and], spiced with the odor of cattle manure” (Angelou 11), thus, giving her passage a sense of romanticism and clearly being the counter of Fishers burlesque style.