VAWN’S WORLD

Hooks and Gates (Reading Response)

In Hook’s paper she defines “talking-back” in a situation. She says that it happens when a younger individual talks to an older individual as if they were equal. But Gates also uses that technique in her paper. She uses it to convey her readers to see what it was like to be a woman in society during her time period. She was an African American woman during a time where she was only seen as an object or a piece of property. Some of her readers felt like she was “throwing her people under the bus” but she was just using Hooks technique to prove her point in a strong way.