English 1101

         In the text, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” (1965), by Malcolm X and Alex Haley, the authors captures Malcolm X as he undergoes a moral and spiritual transformation that eventually led to his great leadership in the African American community. The author uses chronological order to show the journey Malcolm X took from his prison sentence, to him making a 180 and changing his mindset, and eventually becoming an influential leader that still has a legacy to this day. The author explicitly gives readers an insight on X’s journey, in order to highlight his great acts. The intended audiences are people who were followers of Malcolm X and/or African Americans. As a group, we feel a wave of sympathetic emotion towards the negative acts taken place during this time. It is hard as a young, black African American to listen to such horrifying events, being told by another young, black African American. To think if we were born during that time, we would have to deal with those typ

          Tiffany Hendrickson’s narrative essay, “Talking in Color: Collision of Cultures” (2013), explores the idea that a person’s voice supposedly attaches them to one race. The author supports her story by supplying real life events that she experienced while growing up and delivering them as they happened. Hendrickson’s purpose is to bring awareness to the world, to decrease the amount of negative judgment that is put out towards people every day, because of the way they speak. The intended audience is for people in need of a boost of confidence, and people who find themselves judging others.           After reading the text,  we can agree with how the author, Tiffany Hendrickson, feels about code switching. There has definitely been times were we felt we had to code switch. Sometimes it can be simple as having a conversation with friends to having a conversation with our professor. In those cases it doesn't seem uncomfortable. Only because it's necessary and respectf

         From the book "Skin: Talking about Sex, Class and Literature", "Context" (1994) written by Dorthy Allison, explores her thoughts on how "context" can be perceived in different ways, especially the subject it is surrounding, it can have an effect on how others around you view you, or view someone else. The author develops her claim by providing her personal story/ flashback, as it happened, including her after thoughts, to strengthen her idea of context. The purpose of this text is to provide an insight on how context can influence someone's perspective about their background, culture, or etc. Dorothy's target audience is anyone who may have fallen victim to judging others based on their perspective of the context that they have been exposed to.         As we have read through this narrative, we've become sensitive to the understanding of the importance of context. Being that we are surrounded by different people with different ethnic

        In the narrative essay,"Mother Tongue",(1990), the author, Amy Tan defines what "mother tongue" is to her in her own words and the effects it has had on her, based off of hearing her mother's English. Tan explains her reasoning by providing personal stories about her mother and how her "broken English" had so many cons, Tan had to help her numerous times. The purpose of this narrative essay is to showcase that even though you may be surrounded by "broken English", that's not what defines you and there are ways to work with it and around it. The audience of this essay would be anybody who has a different language other than English as their primary language.         Reading this narrative essay gave us insight on how the English language can be difficult to learn and speak to other nationalities trying to learn it. Being that English is all of our first language we, cant fully relate to how Amy Tan feels, nor her mother. But we c