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This week, we've read or listened to Part 2 of King's The Truth About Stories, "You're Not the Indian I Had in Mind" (p. 31-60 or link (Links to an external site.)), in which he discusses the intensely powerful and often erroneous imagery and story of "the Indian" in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and his own relationship to that story and the racism it perpetuates. King's stories in this chapter touch on other injustices, too, which can be discussed in terms of power: sexism (Bank of America calling men "junior executives" and women "tellers," despite their holding the same job) and colonialism (the attitude of the British bureaucrat in New Zealand and the treatment of indigenous people in Australia). He also points out the prevalence of such injustices when he says, "The curious thing about these stories was I had heard them all before, knew them, in fact, by heart" (King 51).
This week's other stories and poems all examine power imbalances of one kind or another, whether they are racist, economic, patriarchal, or political (or perhaps even all of the above). Choose two of this week's stories or poems and discuss them in terms of power. Do you, like King, recognize stories (or elements of stories) that have been used before to justify discrimination? How do your chosen stories/poems work to undermine or counteract the power imbalances they depict? Remember to provide examples from the texts (direct quotations) that support your claims.
the two works I have chosen are Toni Cade Bambara, “The Lesson” (p. 248) and Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants” (p. 313); these are included in the files
after writing the initial discussion post reply to two posts I will include them in the files

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I like King because it depicts and addresses various injustices such as gender inequality in the community; men seem to be occupying similar job positions as women working at the bank, but men have a better job title than women. Gender inequality is still very present in today's society; women are fighting to be fully recognized in many corporations. King also illustrates the unjust ways in which indigenous people were treated in Australia.
My stories of choice are "The Lesson," By Toni Cade Bambara (p. 248), and Ernest Hemingway, "Hills Like White Elephants" (p. 313). The two stories bring about different and educative information about power. The lesson gives insights into matters of wealth. In the story, students are taken to a museum that has expensive items by their teacher. The students are not from a wealthy background, most of the museum items are very costly for their own family to buy, but some families would afford to purchase the toys. Families, where these students come from would prefer using the money to buy their basic needs. This story depi...
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