myPerspectives English Language Arts
myPerspectives English Language Arts
1st Edition
Savvas Learning Co
ISBN: 9780133338805
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Page 333: Comprehension Check

Exercise 1
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Sojourner in the first paragraph is talking about the reformation struggles for black rights in the south and women rights in the north.
Exercise 2
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Sojourner says that many people think “that women need to be helped in to carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere” (Sojourner, paragraph 2).
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In paragraph two, Sojourner truth discusses some hardships she has suffered, including getting lashed and having most of her 13 children sold into slavery.
Exercise 4
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Sojourner uses the detail that Christ had to be born from a woman, “man had nothing to do with Him” (Sojourner, paragraph 2).
Exercise 5
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Sojourner warns that “If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone,” which is referring to Eve taking the apple and causing the world and humanity to be changed forever, “these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again!” (Sojourner, paragraph 2), which means that the women’s movement will be able to turn the world right side up again, so watch out.
Exercise 6
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In this speech, Sojourner is talking about how she has dealt with the struggles that men go through, yet she is a woman too. She is talking about the intersectional dimension of civil rights movements in which black women are often forgotten about.
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