Citizen Notes

(how Rankine uses repetition of syntax and ideas to establish an ongoing theme)

● 2nd pov directed to reader

○ immediacy/ urgency
● Interesting spaces from pages. Feels like time skips or for some other purpose?
● Mc is a black male and sister Evelyn says “have features more like a white person.”
● Usage of thunder\ lightning in pg 7
● The smell of puke repeated in pg 8
● “You smell good” used multiple times.
● Page nine is full of imagery
○ ^pg 10 1st paragraph feels repeated
● “At the top of her lungs”
● “So sorry” pg 18
● Pg 23 goes off something completely different on how black people are “angry”
● Goes into more description rather the beginning is more like a narrative
● This is present time rather than past = reflection
● Serena Williams being treated unfairly at tennis matches
● Interesting pictures
● Doesn’t shift in pov “you”
● She doesn’t use quotes for herself, but others
● Narrator uses thought rather than dialogue for indirect quotes
○ On a personal level

Micro (sentence or phrase)

Pages 33 to end

Pg 34