blog assignment #4

this week in class we discussed race riots. how rumors and newspapers played roles of fact and fiction and roles of debt. how news narratives create the emotionally based actions, with emergencies , threats ; life or death, group identity and collective identity. how the roles of women bodies meant reproduction, women and children were the projection of innocence. we also discussed the story in darkness and confussion by ann petry. a man named william days starts off bad from the start. he lives in a top floor apartment in harlem but wants a better life for his family and himself. he goes to work then after goes to the barber shop, where they talk about everything and anything they want. he sees a soldier inside the shop and he knows he was with his son sam thats is in the army. he asks for his son and the soldier tells him that his son is in prison for shotting an MP. William is angry and keeps the secret to himself because he do not want to worry his wife pink. finally he is drunk on day and he sees pink in the street with a crowd of people and he tells her the truth of what happened to their son. pink is so overrun by emotion that she throws a glass soda bottle into a glass window of a show and starts a riot. william is so surprised by her action and proud of her that he finally understand that they were meant to be. "the violent, explosive sound fed the sense of power in him. pink had started this. he was proud of her, for she had shown herself to be a fit mate for a man of his type" ( petry 287). pink dies in the end of a heart attack but really it seems like if she died of heart break, from being so heart broken about her son.

we also spoke about little scarlet by walter mosley. justice is a theme in the book. its the races coming together and a commodity- market. but overall its the debt. even though justice do not equal to debt. how violence is biologizing = emotional. how the urges and wants are all primal