Samrah's Stories

  Prompt #3: The New Yorker describes Lynn Nottage as having “built a career on making invisible people visible.” How does Sweat accomplish this and do you think enabling visibility is important? Why or why not?    This meme shows the exploitation of workers as they live impoverished lives at the expensive of the greedy companies.  The New Yorker is parsing Lynn Nottage for making invisible people visible, because she helps set the stage for the hard-working people on the rust belt. These workers are the backbone to society, yet they are treated like slaves, large corporations value profit over their well being, meaning that their work conditions are terrible, their pay is terrible, and just every single aspect of the job is appalling. However, to this day not many people know the hardships of these very important people because most people don’t care about the lower class, so Nottage does an exceptional job of bringing attention to the conditions these workers faced, and still fa

   The poem I chose to read was "I look at the world" because I felt that it had a similar theme to the poem we read in class "Let America be great again". Both of these poems follow a common theme of a corrupt world where people build walls of oppression for those who are poor and colored. However, Hughes rejects these ideas, he wants people to acknowledge the fact that America isn't what it’s promised to be, intact he wants to change it; and the only way to change this is if we all band together to fight. In the poem Hughes also uses a concrete word describe the shape of the world and how it is molded to be corrupt, he does this to show that the barrier that is set by the world can be torn, it’s not something that we have to let control us, it’s something that we need to brake. He uses humor to help ease it in too, he calls these walls “silly” downplaying how major this problem is in hopes of recruiting us to his call to action.   This poem also relates to c