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• Blacks and whites didn’t have the same opportunity to obtain jobs.
• Blacks not allowed to work some jobs
• Whites were paid more
• The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
- all must have equal job opportunities
• Walter was a chauffer- complained about it- not the highest pay
• Bennie wanted to be a doctor
- A lot of women didn’t have jobs
- most would just go for nursing
EMPLOYMENT
• Black male
- baffoon-ish
- violent/threatening
- sexually menacing• Black female
- fat
- pitch black
- desexualized
Black children
- undesirable
-ruffians
- street urchins
• Walter
- not sexually menacing
- not that violent• Mama/Ruth/Bennie
- not fat
- not desexualized• Travis
- not a ruffian
- no street urchin
STEREOTYPES
• My family is mostly Italian
- we eat a lot of food
- everything is always home cooked
- my grandparents speak Italian• April 25 is Festa della Liberazione
- celebration of liberation of Italy in WWII
- huge dinner• I’m proud of my culture
- I’ve been introduced to a lot of food
- I’ve learned a little Italian
MY CULTURE
Biscotti & pizzelles.
• Go to college
- I desire an education
- easier to get jobs
- more respect for myself• Be a writer
- either author or journalist
- I’ve always loved writing
- one of the few things I’m good at• Move to Colorado
- breathtakingly beautiful winters
- not too hot, not too cold
MY OWN DREAMS
Linking to the Play:My Dreams• Some dreams are hard to obtain
-becoming a writer is harder than it seems.
- Bennie wanted to be a doctor and everyone said she couldn’t do it.• Dreams take a lot of work to
achieve- study hard in college- a lot of writing- raising money to be able
to move- Bennie was tight on
money and still went to medical school• Sometimes they don’t come true
- being a writer is a long shot
- Walter never achieved his dream of being apart of a liquor store