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I am in no way doubting or disagreeing with your general interpretation Lauren, but I will say that according to the ''Rosa Parks and Virginia Durr'' reading from this week that it was likely for Southern women to help with the boycott. In that reading Durr said, "Then the policemen began giving tickets to the white women who were taking black women home."(225)Regardless of their motives, e.g. wanting their maids to be "fresh and alert" during work, or "I want my maid to be on time", Southern white women were helping with the boycott. As it pertains to the movie, although Miriam starts with the attitude of "I want you to be awake!", the directors give her a biography that explains her sympathy towards the boycotters. Miriam tells the story about traveling with her family to Portland in the 1930s and how the white children stayed in the pool even when the black boys had gotten in. What makes this story believable to me is that Miriam's character was given a broader array of experiences, but not a sanctimonious "I stayed in the pool" mentality. Miriam was definitely a take charge type, with a missionary's zeal, but her actions were sincere. - Jason Ward | I am in no way doubting or disagreeing with your general interpretation Lauren, but I will say that according to the ''Rosa Parks and Virginia Durr'' reading from this week that it was likely for Southern women to help with the boycott. In that reading Durr said, "Then the policemen began giving tickets to the white women who were taking black women home."(225)Regardless of their motives, e.g. wanting their maids to be "fresh and alert" during work, or "I want my maid to be on time", Southern white women were helping with the boycott. As it pertains to the movie, although Miriam starts with the attitude of "I want you to be awake!", the directors give her a biography that explains her sympathy towards the boycotters. Miriam tells the story about traveling with her family to Portland in the 1930s and how the white children stayed in the pool even when the black boys had gotten in. What makes this story believable to me is that Miriam's character was given a broader array of experiences, but not a sanctimonious "I stayed in the pool" mentality. Miriam was definitely a take charge type, with a missionary's zeal, but her actions were sincere. - Jason Ward | ||
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| + | Lauren, I didn't find what Miriam did to be very unlikely, as this was one opportunity for the caring housewives with no money of their own to make a difference for the blacks. I don't think Miriam rushed into it, although we didn't see much hesitation on her part during the film. First of all, she had always treated her maids well, although she also always knew her husband didn't agree with it. She knew from the start that her husband didn't approve of her even driving Odessa, and she stopped when he found out and made her do so. She didn't want to, but she did spend time thinking it over and finally determined that what her husband did was the final straw, the culmination of her long-held feelings that blacks deserved better treatment. By making up her mind she was rebelling against her husband and the whites' sense of right or wrong, and she was aware of what consequences might be if the blacks won--she was in support of them. -Whitney Holcomb | ||
Where were all of the real characters from the ''Rosa Parks'' reading?- Jason Ward | Where were all of the real characters from the ''Rosa Parks'' reading?- Jason Ward | ||
