User versus the Used
In today’s society, there is a tendency to merely except the information given in classes, broadcasted on the television, and printed in books and newspapers. Many times this information is funded, published and censored by the group that has more power, resources, and education. Through this power, this group, known as Group A, obtains power over the receiving group, known as Group B. Group B is usually group that takes in and accepts the information told to them because they are traditionally told to do so. Group B is trapped in a never ending cycle of receiving, reciting, and accepting the information given by Group A. The only way to break it is through the questioning the work itself. ...
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and information that has been either told to that person or they are stories that are commonly heard and never questioned. She uses the image of a monkey, a common primate in the animal kingdom that is usually seen as the imitator of its master or instructor. In the beginning of the poem, the speaker is saying, “crick!/ Crack!/ Monkey break he back on a rotten pomerack/What is the mirage and what reality?/ Do we know what is truth and what is truly fiction”(45). The speaker is questioning whether this group B knows the difference between what is true and what is false. Many times, group B is fed information with out knowing exactly why they are being taught or told these stories that usually do not pertain to their group of people. Thus what they hear may not always be the complete truth. Once again this information is being given to them by a group, Group A, who wants to remain the group in power, and whose purpose is to find ways to stay in power. Thus the information that is ...
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against those who shape the information.
In another instance in the poem, the speaker says, “…once an African child told me/ a story she said she had learnt/ at school/ slavery, she said,/ had been abolished by/ a tall, tall white man/ in a tall, tall, hat/ a man whose name she/ couldn’t remember/ the name had gone/ but the image remained/ so what is the mirage and what reality?”(p47 lines). The speaker, a member of Group B, is shocked by this story that this child has told them. A white man that had enough sympathy to free black people, seemed unreal to the speaker, and so they questioned their giver of information. In this case the little girl is perceived as Group A, in telling an ...
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