DOROTHY WEST

By: Ashley Flaum

January 9, 2014

Period 7

Boston MA

Attended school 1st grade

(Boston's Farragut School)-

college (Columbia University)

Studied Creative Writing

First published in the Boston Post

Tied 2nd in NAACP writing

competition

Moved to Harlem, NY to join

other African American writers

BIOGRAPHY

(2 June 1907–16 Aug. 1998)

This is a story about a man

who hates his life. One day

his daughter asks him to talk

to her so she can practice

her typing skills. The man

creates his dream life in the

stories he tells her.

THE TYPEWRITER

Brief description Dorothy West

Gloomy

Depressing

TONE

When a dream is

postponed

An individual feels

trapped by racism

THEME

Similes

Figurative ( J. dies)

Mood (sad, depressed)

Symbol (typerwritter)

Synecdoche (the

typewriter, letters)

TECHNIQUES

Nicknamed “the kid”

by Langston Hughs

She created the

Magazine the

Challenger; it was a

collection of works from

young African American

writers

HARLEM RENAISSANCE

Then she published the

New Challenger; which

featured "Blueprint for

Negro Writing," an essay

by Richard Wright .

She was one of the last

surviving writers of this

period.