Short story #1 A Party Down At the Square

This story was told by alittle boy that saw a man get burned in a fire. I believe its supposed to be from back in the day but there was a plane and electric lines so it couldn't be to old. There was a man getting burned down in front of the courthouse. He was a black man so this was a racial story. The little boy in the story was talkin like that was all he was use to. In the story someone called the boy a name that had Cincinnati in it. I asume thats where he is from.

I feel like this story was cruel and had no purpose. There were three main tragedies that happen in this story and then the story ends.The first tragedie is a black man getting burned in a fire by the community. The second tragedy is a plane thinks the fire is the landing and crashes. The third tragedy is a big storm that causes alot of problems in the town and then the story ends.

I feel like there is no reason for this story. Why would somebody want to write a story like this? that is my response..i almost felt uncomfortable reading this story.

After finding out that Ralph Ellison is a black man it changed my outlook about the story. I feel like he wanted people to know how people were treated during this time.

2. The boy in this story was young. He was a child and he live with his mother and uncle Ed that is with his mother. His father passed away. This boy was the narrator of the story. When ythe man got burned and the boy was talking about the man being strong it made me feel as if he had sympathy for the man, but then i relized that he was raised to not kno that blacks are equal so that why he had an attitude like he really didnt care.

3. the author didn't explain waht the athour was like. The characters were shown and noticed by there actions. A character in the story name Jed let himself be known because of his cruelty he kept throwing gas on the fire and trying to let the man burn.
4.simlie-is a figure of speech comparing two unlike things, often introduced with the word "like" or "as".
metaphor-describes a first subject as being or equal to a second object in some way.
personification-The act of personifying
allusion- a literary device that stimulates ideas, associations, and extra information in the reader's mind with only a word or two.
hyperbole-A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect
irony-the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning