Table Two

1. Table Two Grammar and Cliches

2. There lies between every individual and every group of people an invisible barrier that results in physical and psychological separation by stunting effective communication. Du Bois called this barrier “the Veil” and it stemed from the cultural context in which an individual is raised. This Veil takes responsibility for what Du Bois claims is the sole “tragedy of the age not that men are poor,—all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked,—who is good? not that men are ignorant,—what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men” (Du Bois 185). By continuously feeding from the differences from the contrasting cultures, the Veil becomes an inevitable and destructive force that prevails in society. This is demonstrable in J.M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron in which Curren a dying Caucasian woman is reflecting on her finalmoments during racial apartheid in South Africa in a letter to her only daughter who has fled to America. In contrast, in The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois, an African-American with an upbringing in a Northeastern and white- dominated neighborhood, discovers the antebellum south and in doing so, discovers himself. Although both Curren and Du Bois have successes, they ultimately fail in their attempts to fully understand the struggles and hardships of inequality during their lifetime because they fail to break through the Veil.

3. There lies between every individual and every group of people an invisible barrier that results in physical and psychological separation by stunting effective communication. Du Bois called this barrier “the Veil” and it stemed from the cultural context in which an individual is raised. This Veil obtains responsibility for what Du Bois claims is the sole “tragedy of the age not that men are poor,—all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked,—who is good? not that men are ignorant,—what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men” (Du Bois 185). By continuously feeding from the differences from the contrasting cultures, the Veil becomes an inevitable and destructive force that prevails in society. This is demonstrable in J.M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron in which Curren a dying Caucasian woman is reflecting on her final moments during racial apartheid in South Africa in a letter to her only daughter who has fled to America. In contrast, in The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois, an African-American with an upbringing in a Northeastern and white-dominated neighborhood, discovers the antebellum south and in doing so, discovers himself. Although both Curren and Du Bois have successes, they ultimately fail in their attempts to fully understand the struggles and hardships of inequality during their lifetime because they fail to break through the Veil.

4. Corrections Made 1.) Use Present tense, not past tense. “Du Bois calls,” instead of “Du Bois called. 2.) Two “m’s” in “stemmed,” and again, use present tense. 3.) The language is too complicated it, the student was trying to make it sound smarter but it actually just makes it less clear. Instead of saying “obtains responsibility for,” just say “is responsible for.” 4.) Commas are necessary to make the sentence clear. 5.) “discovers the antebellum south and in doing so, discovers himself” just sounds really familiar, like its been pirated off the paragraph on the back of the book.