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Student Name Professor Course Date Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Boat This narrative is all about color and is drowned in it. Russell Banks, the narrator, claims that he wants his people to be able to see just what he's speaking about, but in this novel, that intention is doubtful, and it isn't all he's attempting. In “Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Boat, "The plot revolves around two people in a tumultuous interracial relationship. She is pregnant with his kid, but she does not wish to retain it. In Dreiser's story, he describes how Banks depicts the storyline struggle with two programs excesses. While Theodore Dreiser's disagrees with the way Banks' narrative is told, it does illustrate how certain women of all races can be just as dominating in all aspects of a relationship, especially in today's interracial couples.This story Black Man and White Women story supports the view of naturism as discussed below. It was a blistering hot day on August 3rd when the story took place. Most of the occupants were on their way to work, though some were taking a break at the trailer park. In the trailer park, a white person lived solitary, and a black man visited her often. They decided to take this dark green boat out on the lake. The black man was a fisherman while the white female was tanning(Banks,42). In Banks' narrative, the white woman was attempting to attract the attention of the black guy by placing her tiny white feet over his enormous, dark feet while being in the dark green boat. "The guy examined her crotch wedge, then her belly, where a stream of perspiration was forming, then the swell of her little breast, and lastly her long throat, which

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glistened in the sunlight." She knew she'd have complete power over him. "His examination of her physique leads him to a comparable advertisement of his availability," By taking his shirt off and wrapping it around his head because of the blazing sun and heat. Then she decides to call him all types of different racial names thinking that wouldn’t make him feel a specific type of way Now, this is when things start to fumble. They then start up a conversation about the situation they’re in. Theodore explains that "Their verbal encounter portrays how they are increasingly aware of a contradiction of "Doxa," a phrase that, as Bourdieu punctuates it, refers to unchallenged societal belief structures that look natural.". She starts the conversation with some bit of hints about her pregnancy. She starts complaining about her body in different ways to address it. The white woman stated, “I’m already putting on weight,” then he told her, “It doesn’t work that way. You’re just overeating.” That means in this story, she starts bringing up the pregnancy. She then switched up the conversation about telling her mother about everything but wasn’t looking at him while she was talking. He realizes that the white woman is uninterested in him, so he vents his rage on the sea by rowing faster and less gracefully. She then tells him that she’s been having depression, but it’s referring to how she doesn’t want to keep the baby. She took it upon herself to get an abortion without discussing the situation with him(Banks,42). He stated, “I hate this whole thing. Hate! Just know that much, will you? ” She acknowledged what he was saying, but it still didn’t make her change her decision on the abortion. She still wanted to go forth with it. Dreiser's says, “the black man is being enticed into a social narrative that will only mean his suffering at the hands of the woman’s white community. ” He wants to keep the baby, but the main reason she doesn’t want to have the baby is that she doesn’t want to get fat plus have to take care of another human being

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At this point, the black man realized that their relationship was not going in the right direction. He felt like there was no point in him being with her since she wanted to kill their baby. Not looking at her, the black man said, “I wish I could leave you here (Banks,42). He didn’t want to take her back to the trailer park because he wanted her to miss the appointment she had, but even if she missed it, her mother could’ve rescheduled another appointment. She looks so nervous and might have been a little frightened. In Theodore Dreiser's essay, he states, "By implication, however, the fear is that she would be shunned by her group and made a sexual dominance prisoner." then he realized that he needed to move on because she only cared about herself. So he started to row the boat back to the shore so she could get to her appointment to have the abortions, and he went his separate way Theodore Dreiser's naturalism is viewed by looking at his personality, the kinds of encounters he had in his developmental years, and the intellectual theories that sprang from his encounters and reading. A warm, excitement and enthusiasm human compassion; a considerable vital lust for life with the finding of guilt that man is the end and way of measuring of all things in a world devoid of intention or guidelines; moral, ethical, and religious methodological individualism; contact with late-nineteenth-century scientific thought that underscored the authority and magnification of structural laws over human desires; belief in a cannabinoid interpretation of the human machine—an explanation that substantiates human desires; moral, ethical, and religious agno It is important to note that his understanding of the dynamic, cyclical nature of human and natural events stems as much from personal experience as it does from exposure to literary models or scientific theory. His determinism loses power once again because he is more interested in the mystery, fear, and wonder of existence than in finding the mechanisms that may explain and eliminate the enigma. this naturalism is similar to bank in that

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it witnessed too many of the ills of industrial revolution and the malignancy of natural forces, which does not regard science as the magnificent high priest of benign Nature. Life, on the other hand, is always seeking, yearning, struggling, throbbing—life is the one constant amid a relentless change. And Dreiser's works are primarily concerned with the pitiful fates of humans in this universe of meaningless change. I’m also in an interracial relationship. I can relate to this story because my fiancée at times tells me that I’m always trying to be controlling, which I do. I like to decide and make sure everything in our household and our lives is in order. When I got pregnant with our son, I also didn’t want to keep the baby. One day he showed me a whole different side of him that I had never seen and told me he would like me to keep the baby. He bought a house for our little family once our son was born, and we were finally getting married this year. He wasn’t raised with a father growing up, but that didn’t stop him from being the best dad to our son. The way we both were raised, he doesn’t realize that I have goals for him and me, not only to make sure our family is living excellent and wealthy but to make sure our son wouldn’t want for anything In “Black Man and White Woman in a Dark Green Rowboat,” the white woman had stated she almost had a “close call” of having depression. She was making the black man feel like the baby is making her have different emotions that she doesn’t want to deal with. She was trying to find a reason not to keep the baby so she wouldn’t have to feed another mouth or mess up her body figure. I thought about having an abortion moment I learned I was expecting my first kid, and I had no idea. What to do nor financially wasn’t I even prepared to take care of a child. My mother and my grandmother had to talk me out of it. I also didn’t think he was ready to become a father, but he showed me differently. So we both had to change some things in our life around to prepare for our son's birth. Three years later, I am proud to say I’m glad I did not go

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through with the abortion because I have the world’s most imaginative handsome toddler son. We love him unconditionally issue of abortion elicits moral concerns based on the fetus's right to life. While an adoptive parent may not be the most extraordinary person to raise a kid, it is debatable if killing the infant baby is a reasonable response to the situation. However, a termination may be required to save another life of an expecting woman in some circumstances, and others believe that termination should not be used as a last resort for people who have struggled to take enough precautions to avoid undesired pregnancies.

Surname Works Cited Banks, Russell. “Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat.” Mississippi Review, vol. 10, no. 1/2, 1981, pp. 42–49, www.jstor.org/stable/20133817.

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