Jean Toomer’s “Becky” (CR 274-276)
I think the story is about a mad white woman who was isolated by the rest of the people because her madness. This practice was very common but still remain in some places around the world. When somebody becomes mad they usually do crazy things and they becomes dangerous. In advanced societies they usually take those people to asylums where they will have special treatments. But I guess in this particular town, there was just one mad woman so they decided to build her small tiny house near the railroad.
But there is a figure in the story that has not been revealed by the narrator either because it is not known or he wants to make the story more interesting:The guy who got the mad white woman pregnant. I didn't hear anything about that guy throughout the story. But I think he plays an important role in the mad woman's life. who ever he was I think that is a sign of being not responsible and not looking down for others. I'm sure he made her disappear as well so that she would not reveal his identity.


Claude McKay’s “America”
The speaker in the poem is appreciating what this America (America) has done to him. Even if the treatment was not fair as he said in his lines, he consider it as test of his youth. He really sounded like he was a slave to me then i remembered that back in time no slave could appreciate what they suffered.


“If We Must Die”
In this poem, the author is encouraging his men to stand up for themselves and not to give up. He claims that they must die with honor and if they do, even dead they will constrain the enemy to respect them.
This two poems give evidence that the author was either slave or a victim of racism because the fight here represents what he mentioned in the first poem as bitterness. So in order to test his youth he had to fight against oppressor. The cultured hell help him to unite his party and fight like one person.