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xixImages build visual literacy. Visual texts accompany each prose reading. These images are carefully chosen %u2014 they provide additional context, suggest new ideas, or prompt deeper analysis. 2505 Redefining America%u00a9 Nathan Fox This illustration by Nathan Fox accompanied %u201cFriday Black%u201d when it was first published in Esquiremagazine. While it is not a literal illustration of the story%u2019s action or characters, it does re-create the chaos. What visual elements enable us to see and feel the chaos of the events that take place in %u201cFriday Black%u201d? How do those elements echo the language choices Adjei-Brenyah makes? me most on Christmas. I have him holidays. Me and him. Wants the one thing. Only thing. His mother won%u2019t. On me. Need to feel like Father! Ever since that first time, since the bite, I can speak Black Friday. Or I can understand it, at least. Not fluently, but well enough. I have some of them in me. I hear the people, the sizes, the model, the make, and the reason. Even if all they%u2019re doing is foaming at the mouth. I use my reach and pull a medium-size blue SleekPack PoleFace %u2122 from a face-out rack way up on the wall. %u201cThanks,%u201d he growls when I throw the jacket in his face. and tries to sweep her onto the pallet jack so he can roll her to the section we%u2019ve designated for bodies. As he touches her, a woman wearing a gray scarf pushes him away and yanks the girl to her feet. I imagine the mother explaining that her tiny daughter isn%u2019t dead yet. She pulls the little girl toward me. The girl limps and tries to keep up, and then I have to forget about them. %u201cBlue! Son! SleekPack!%u201d a man with wild eyes and a bubble vest screams as he grabs my left ankle. White foam drips from his mouth. I use my right foot to stomp his hand, and I feel his fingers crush beneath my boots. He howls, %u201cSleekPack. Son!%u201d while licking his injured hand. I look him in his eyes, deep red around his lids, redder at the corners. I understand him perfectly. What he%u2019s saying is this: My son. Loves By paragraph 12, what do you know about the narrator%u2019s personality and motivations? How did being bitten by a Black Friday shopper change him? 22 This illustration by Nathan Fox accompanied %u201cFriday Black%u201d when it was first published in magazine. While it is not a literal illustration of the story%u2019s action or characters, it does re-create the chaos. 287rse, but three hours pass of a transport orderly or s onto her side, falls to the cafeteria. She buys a olate pudding topped with eam, since making weight e concern. It%u2019s not until she realizes she is raw with le as she brings the food nishes, she checks her ndred worried messages m her father, asking her if mer best friend, meanwhile, ram post, with an image aption talking about how fighter losing, but a fighter nto the booth. It%u2019s true a small and secret ave to battle her former ll. In sparring, she Kayla in small, tricky ng, angles. She knew just hen. Tactics that could be ds in a real bout. pack and takes out digs around and finds lls, a credit card, her he had to hand over e copied, along with a she has no idea what if the expense will at she will never be able rty-eight. She is not an a small Polaroid of a d out on a bright-green book. From a side pocket, ness cards: George%u2019s laces in town where ndoors; Rivera Family psychic adviser. ors have rules about who als the number for the 65psychic adviser. She keeps thinking that someone must know this woman, that there must be someone out there that she should inform. %u201cI%u2019m calling about Mary.%u201d Kayla reads aloud her full name from the driver%u2019s license. %u201cI think she%u2019s a client of yours?%u201d %u201cI%u2019m going to stop you right there,%u201d the psychic adviser says, %u201cand let you know that I am not in the business of giving refunds.%u201d %u201cShe%u2019s in the hospital.%u201d %u201cI am an innocent seer. I am not liable. I don%u2019t make anything happen.%u201d %u201cI%u2019m just trying to figure out what to do,%u201d says Kayla. %u201cShe might need surgery. Do you know if she has any family?%u201d 705 Laura van den Berg This illustration by Daryn Ray accompanied van den Berg%u2019s story when it first appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review . What does this image of a coin purse as a kind of sacred icon suggest about the character of Mary? What do we learn about Mary from each item she carries in the coin purse? %u00a9 Daryn RayGuided Tour4646 A Meeting of Old and New Worlds KEY CONTEXT Edward Hicks painted sixty-two versions of The Peaceable Kingdom . Inspired by Isaiah 11:6%u20139, which begins, %u201cThe wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child shall lead them,%u201d the paintings depict an idyllic scene of harmony, often with animals and children in the foreground and an event from early American history in the background. KEY CONTEXT Edward Hicks painted sixty-two versions of Historic Images/Alamy Stock Photo c. 1833 The Peaceable Kingdom Edward Hicks Edward Hicks (1780%u20131849) apprenticed as a carriage painter as a youth in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and became a painter of tavern signs in addition to farming equipment and carriages. In his early twenties, he joined the Society of Friends, and in 1812, he became a Quaker minister. The Quakers frowned on decorative arts, and Hicks reconciled the conflict between his faith and his desire to paint by depicting religious themes in his paintings. Although he was better known as a minister than as a painter during his lifetime, his paintings of The Peaceable Kingdomhave become iconic American images. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution4656 Edward Hicks QUESTIONS Understanding and Interpreting 1. Look carefully at this work of art and explain its theme. 2. How does Edward Hicks reference and expand upon the scenario described in Isaiah 11:6%u20139? See the Key Context for a quotation from this verse. 3. A Quaker preacher, Hicks struggled with the conflict between his religious beliefs and his natural talent for painting. How might the Peaceable Kingdom paintings have helped him resolve the conflict between the simple utilitarian life proscribed by Quakerism and the desire to create art? QUESTIONS Analyzing Style and Structure 4. The background on the left depicts the signing of a treaty between William Penn, who brought Quakerism to the New World, and American Indians. How does that parallel image connect to the image of the animals on the right? 5. What do you think the two children in the foreground represent? Explain. 6. What do you think the river represents in this painting? Explain. 7. Although the title of the painting is The Peaceable Kingdom , do you find any evidence of conflict? Explain why or why not. QUESTIONS Topics for Composing 8. Analysis. Write an analysis of this painting. First, consider Hicks%u2019s purpose, and then analyze how elements such as line, shape, color, light, and composition help him achieve it. 9. Research. Research several of Edward Hicks%u2019s other Peaceable Kingdom paintings, studying them in chronological order. Write an essay in which you analyze the way they changed, and pose a theory about why the changes might have occurred. QUESTIONS Understanding and Interpreting QUESTIONS Analyzing Style and Structure QUESTIONS Topics for Composing Visual texts expand rhetorical analysis skills.Each chapter includes at least one painting or photo essay. We approach these visual texts as we do written ones %u2014 rhetorically %u2014 encouraging students to read them closely and analyze how artists achieve their purposes.Copyright %u00a9 Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishers. Distributed by Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishers. For review purposes only. Not for redistribution.