The Golden Gazette

  I used to love reading. As a kid going all the way until middle school I would read for fun all the time. Now as a highschooler, reading always feels like a chore since the only time I read is when it’s required for classes. That enjoyment I once had quickly faded and made it so I couldn’t read more than 20 pages of a book at a time without feeling bored or tired, whereas I used to sit and read entire books in one night because I was so captivated. This year since we get to choose what books we can read for class, reading has become a little more interesting and enjoyable. While it is more difficult for me to self pace because reading still feels like a chore, I like reading books as a class more, but the freedom to choose what book I want to read is something I really value with the choice books. I think that we don’t necessarily need more choice reading in AP simply because I feel that it is almost a constant except for when we’re reading something as a class. One book a month ...

Alice Walker and August Wilson have many things in common; they both are amazing authors of color, have won multiple awards for their pieces, and most importantly both use their platforms and pieces to have many important conversations about racial issues in America. Walker wrote the novel, The Color Purple , as a series of letters to God from an African American woman named Celie, as well as letters to Celie from her sister Nettie. The novel goes through most of Celie’s young to adult life, and displays the struggles she faces as a black woman in America in the early to mid 1900s. With Alice Walker growing up at the latter end of that time period, she faced many of the same struggles that Celie did, as stereotypes have carried through all generations. Since Walker has and still does experience the effects of racism and stereotypes, she exhibits and displays her own emotions and situations through the character of Celie. While Fences shares the common theme of race, it is sho...