Unit 1: Response To Reading And Literature Reflections

NameInstructorCourseDateRace and ethnicity that leads to diversityFor any diverse society to function in a cohesive way, it’s important to encourage the integration of all races and ethnicities. I chose to evaluate how Race/ethnicity plays a prominent role throughout the class readings. Ethnicity is based on unity of heritage, customs, language, nationality, or religion, or a mixture of these things. I chose to evaluate this prompt because race and ethnicity is an integral part in the construction of individuality and in the end affects social cohesion and leads to diversity. I chose to examine and compare “Everything That Rises must converge” by Flannery O’Connor, and “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner. This is because the characters in these two short stories do not understand the cultural differences between them ending up in some of the races in the stories being looked down on and seen as inferior. In this examination, we will get to look at the concept of race and ethnicity in the literature that is in turn translated to society. This is because failure to understand cultural differences affects our understanding of others in society. In these two stories, we will examine how two characters in these