Wednesday, July 22, 2009
"The Goophered Grapevine"
First of all, it was challenging for me to fully understand “The Goophered Grapevine” because of the language that was used in the story. I have to read it several times in order to know the line. The story begins with the narrator who is well educated and therefore, there is a vivid contrast with the second narrator Uncle Julius. In the story of “The Goophered Grapevine”, there is a story within a story. Chesnutt introduced Uncle Julius to tell story of the goophered grapevine that makes the story mysterious and entertaining. But inside the goophered grapevine, there’s a story about a poor slave Henry’s life. Henru was treated as property that Mars Dugal would take advantage of the curse and make profit out of this cash cow.
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I agree about the story being hard to comprehend. This story wasn't terribly long but it ended up taking forever to read because of the author's diction. I had to go read a summary to make sure I was understanding everything right.
ReplyDeleteJust as you and Brett have proposed, I also had a hard time reading the story when Uncle Julius was speaking. The dialect used by the author made it very difficult but also entertaining if you could understand it.
ReplyDeleteThis story was very hard to read. They used the sterotype of the african american slave to bring some local color but it makes it really hard to read.
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