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Question: For this assignment, please answer the following discussion question using the book "Countee Cullen "Heritage" and Jarena Lee, "From the Life and Religious Experience of Jarena Lee" (1836)-3
Countee Cullen Reading Questions
1) What is Countee Cullen's understanding of his "heritage"? How does this heritage affect his relationship to American culture and society?
2) How does the speaker in this poem feel about Christianity? Please reference specific passages from the poem to support your interpretation.
3) Is there any evidence in this poem that the speaker is angry? What is he angry about? How does he describe this anger?
Jarena Lee Reading Questions
Question 1. What challenges did Jarena Lee face in pursuing her passions? How did she overcome them?
Question 2. What made the Second Great Awakening a radical social movement?
Question 3. How was Jarena Lee treated differently from male itinerant preachers?
Question 4. Why is Jarena Lee's story important?