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5. Read the below passage from “Why, You Reckon?”
The poor white fellow looked like he was gonna cry. “Don’t you know,” the colored fellow went on, “that I been walkin’ up and down Lenox Avenue for three or four months tryin’ to find some way to earn money to get my shoes half-soled? Here, look at ’em.” He held up the palms of his feet for the white boy to see. There were sure big holes in his shoes. “Looka here!” he said to that white boy. “Still you got the nerve to come up here to Harlem all dressed up in a tuxedo suit with a stiff shirt on and diamonds shinin’ out of the front of it, and a silk muffler on and a big heavy overcoat! Gimme that overcoat,” the other fellow said (Hughes, 256).
In 2-4 sentences, explain how this excerpt represents one of the Essential Ideas of Modernism listed below. Use one piece of textual evidence for support. (4 points)
- Self-expression and human mind
- Personal experiences shaped authors’ writings
- Existentialism
- Social injustice
- Race and gender inequality