The Fourth Of July Audre Lorde Summary

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It is a natural human tendency for people to fear what’s different. Racism is fear against someone of a different race. Over time, racism has evolved into discrimination and discriminatory acts were set into place; the biggest example of this is segregation. In the emotional essay, “The Fourth of July”, Audre Lorde uses metaphors and irony to convey her frustrated opinion toward society, sparked by racism and discrimination in the nations’ capital. Marked by a family trip to Washington DC, Lorde is told that her childhood is over. This then becomes evident when she is fully aware of her grotesque reality. Lorde uses a personal anecdote to describe how it felt to experience racism at first hand, “The… Summer I left childhood was white, and

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