Champion Of The World Thesis

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A chapter “Champion of the World” from the novel, “Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou, canvas this racial pride having ambition unity factors of segregation. To who is cogent this chapter is Maya Angelou when she was a young black girl from her perspective of discrimination of “white beliefs”. This proposes towards African Americans trying to gain freedom, unification, and tolerance. Additionally, towards the government to abolition segregation laws. It takes place around the 1930’s a boxing match between a white boxer and Joe Louis in Arkansas the rural south. The ambition of this chapter demonstrates the solidarity and desperation of Africans Americans having to face violent racism appeared in the South in the world where black men are lynched and black women are raped and abused.
In the chapter “Champions of the World”, Maya Angelou depicts imagery describing vividly during the fight illustrating what she had remembered when she was a young girl. During the match Joe is losing and Maya portrays what has happened: “Yes ladies and gentlemans, the referee is signaling but the conductor keep raining blows on
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Using diction describing the racial listing violent words as it shown: “A black boy whipped and mained”. Granting the tone of this quote aggressive, bitter, and out of order because it is being depicted what the inequality the black boy has compared to the whites. Also the stereotype from the chapter is: “It was a white woman slapping her maid for being forgetful”. Displays what stereotype the black women is a maid for a white women where again is being punished for being “forgetful” illustrates the whites have the superiority over the blacks, as the whites can punish or execute the blacks because they have more of a equal rights than the blacks. As in where in the text it shows syntax mainly listing what describes from