African Literature
African Literature, now there is a tough subject to write about. The purpose of this paper to write our opinion about African Literature well, I am not sure I have an opinion either way about African Literature. What I can tell you is what I think African Literature is about and how it relates to modern day. In reading the story: The Epic of Son Jara and in the movie we watched in class and in some of the other short stories I read on the internet I noticed that they all have one main theme. That theme would be the importance of family to the African culture. Not just their immediate family but also their extended family as well. I grew up in a predominately African American neighborhood on the east side of Detroit. Most of my friends and classmates were of the African American decent, and I re
My best friend for example, had her grandmother and her great grandmother living with them and to that family it was perfectly normal to them to have their extended family living with them. Even in today's society, I think the African American families now so much more of their past then White Americans do. Really I think that if the generation of children today had that sense of family we would have a lot less problems in today's world. Look at the reason so many young people join a gang. ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**. The grandmother would basically tell us of that family history. I remember asking my friend, "is the service always like this?" She told my yes, which was the way the !service was brought down through the generations. I also remember go to church with my friend and listening to the service and thinking how vocal these people were. I can remember going to her house and sitting and listening to the stories of my friends relatives that her grandmother would tell us. I think that is the biggest different between the African American and the White American societies today. I remember my friend being able to tell is all about the different generations in her family, and I remember thinking that I know nothing about my own family history. I do not feel that the family importance is as important today as it was back 300 years ago, but I think that if by some miracle we as a society could ever get back to that simpler time, society would have a lot less problems with crime and hatred. They join for the sense of belonging, to have more than one person to care about them; in reality that gang becomes their family. There were never any stories told about the past generations of my family. They did not just sit quietly; they got involved in the service.
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