“Brownies”
Answer the following questions about this story
- What is the effect of having Laurel (nicknamed “Sont”) narrate the story?
- How does the setting of the story affect the action?
- What is laurel’s opinion of Arnetta does it change during the course of the story?
- how does the narrator initially view the white brownie troop? Does her background influence her initial perspective? Consult the text for examples?
- Much of “Brownies” is very funny. What role does humor have in the story?
- What realization does the narrator have at the end of the story? How does this change her understating of her father and of racial dynamics more generally?
- What does the story suggest about racial stereotyping?
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