King Still King

I believe that Martin Luther King Jr. is still King. King has yet to be forgotten and his movement still affects are society today. Without Martin Luther King Jr., many of the leaders in the African-American community would not have much inspiration. They look at King as an icon and many of these leaders base their methods and ideas from Martin Luther King’s. Also in recent years, Barack Obama has been compared to Martin Luther King Jr., which shows that he has not elapsed from our memory.  I feel that if the African-American community did not have an icon to look up like Martin Luther King, the things that we stand for would be brought about in a very different, perhaps more violent way. The way Martin Luther King Jr., moralized his message in a very peaceful, and organized matter, which made him a very unique figure and person that will never be forgotten because of that trait. 

Children of the Sea

             For starters, the new section that we are doing has been my favorite so far. Short stories cannot have a boring build up because they are meant to catch the reader’s eye from beginning to end and I felt that Children of the Sea by Edwidge Dannicat did that exact thing. Dannicat really painted a picture in my head about what was happening. The concise, but vivid details- as opposed to long, insignificant details that are sometimes seen in regular novels- makes Children of the Sea a better read. In addition, the unique style she used to write the story in journals helped portray the lives of both people through their thoughts, and ideas, allowed us to understand how they felt from one another, and gave us information about the experiences that they had to undergo. Lastly, one of the main reasons I enjoyed this short story was because it was half non-fiction, which put more emotion into the story and kept the reader interested.