“Passing” by Nella Larsen: An Analysis by Willow V. Hello! This is an assignment that I did for my Harlem Renaissance American Literature class. This essay is my own original work. In Nella Larsen’s “Passing” a Black woman named Irene Redfield, who is usually seen as “an Italian, a Spaniard, a Mexican, or a gipsy. Never, when she was alone, had they even remotely seemed to suspect that she was a Negro” (Larsen), finds out that her childhood friend, Clare Kendry, has been passing as White after seeing her in Chicago for the first time in 12 years. There are 3 sections of the novella; Encounter, Re-Encounter, and Finale. The first section, Encounter, includes the event in Chicago mentioned above, along with Irene being invited to visit Clare at her hotel in Chicago where Clare Kendry and her extremely racist husband, John Bellew. Mr. Bellew has absolutely no idea that Clare isn’t actually White, and calls her “Nig” because “When we wer...
According to my Freshman year English teacher, there are people out there who are in High School and don't know how to write an essay, so I took the initiative of sharing the essay writing formula that I've used since I first started writing essays. That was in Elementary School, by the way. Disclaimer: I am not guaranteeing anything with this post. I am simply sharing my personal essay writing formula with the world. Essay Outline Title: self-explanatory Intro paragraph Thesis statement: 1 sentence, the response to the prompt. This is the first supporting statement, a supporting statement is essentially the reason why your thesis statement is right, for every supporting paragraph, you need a new supporting statement. This is the second supporting statement, supporting statements are used as thesis statements or topic sentences for your supporting paragraphs. This is the third supporting statement, all of the supporting statements must be on the topic and ...