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Mind Map by David Aparicio-cruz, updated more than 1 year ago
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Social Criticism in
145th Street Stories
- Monkeyman
- A violent gang takes over
a community.
- Why do young people feel
the need to form gangs and
do violent acts.
- Is it due to a lack of strong male
role models?
- Is it due to a lack of jobs and
opportunities?
- Is it due to a lack of strong male
role models?
- Why do young people feel
the need to form gangs and
do violent acts.
- A violent gang takes over
a community.
- A Christmas Story
- OfficerO'Brian feels no
connection to the Harlem
community
- Police believe in
"eight and straight"
- If Mother Fletcher had not reached out to
O'Brien would he have connected with
anyone in the community?
- Police believe in
"eight and straight"
- OfficerO'Brian feels no
connection to the Harlem
community
- Angela's Eyes
- Angela's father is killed while
driving a taxi.
- Angela's life is irreperable altered
because of needless violence
- Why is there so much
violence in this society?
- Why is there so much
violence in this society?
- Angela's life is irreperable altered
because of needless violence
- The community turns against
Angel based on irrational fear
- They seem to have little
compassion for her loss or grief
- They seem to have little
compassion for her loss or grief
- Angela's father is killed while
driving a taxi.
- Baddest Dog in Harlem
- Police kill a little boy
- Why is life in Harlem
worth so little?
- Will the police be held
responsible for the death
of the little boy?
- Will the police be held
responsible for the death
of the little boy?
- Why is life in Harlem
worth so little?
- Why didn't Mary trust being alone
with the policemen?
- Did something happen to Mary in the
past?
- Was her fear rational or
irrational?
- Was her fear rational or
irrational?
- Is this just a writer's technique
(plot device) to get the narrator in the
apartment to be a witness?
- "...said she wasn't going anywhere with them
unless she had a black man with her" (21)
- Did something happen to Mary in the
past?
- Police kill a little boy
- Big Joe's Funeral
- Police treatment of community
members in the park
- People attending a funeral are
made to lay facedown in the
dirt.
- Even people not at the
funeral are made to lay
facedown.
- "In a minute they had everybody lying on the ground" (10)
- 'I got my rights.' "Leroy was laying facedown"
(11)
- "In a minute they had everybody lying on the ground" (10)
- Even people not at the
funeral are made to lay
facedown.
- People attending a funeral are
made to lay facedown in the
dirt.
- Police treatment of community
members in the park
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