Critique of The Souls of Black Folk

The author of the Souls of Black Folk is W.E.B. Dubois. The background of the story dealt with W.E.B. Dubois and how is he is an African American scholar that graduated from prestigious schools such as, Harvard. the story is written about Dubois's child that died some time after birth. throughout the whole story he talks about the death and how it would have been if the child would have lived.

"And then one night the little feet patted wearily to the wee white bed and the tiny hands trembled ; and a warm flushed face tossed on the pillow , and we knew baby was sick." That quote described one of the first foreshadows that something could have happened to the child. Also through the using of the word "veil," Dubois used an allusion to death. Dubois said"Within the Veil was he born." To make the word veil standout, he capitalized it to show the importance of the word.

Overall, the story was quite compelling because of there were great quotes that came out of his grieving situation. One quote that I find to be extremely fascinating was,"Only in the chamber of death writhed the world's most piteous -a childless mother." I thought that it carried a great imagery. The quote of "Sleep,then child, - sleep till I sleep and waken to a baby voice and the ceaseless patter of little feet- above the Veil," I thought really summed the whole thing of what Dubois was talking about when he talked about the death of his child. He used sleep as an allusion to mean to go to sleep and the was very compelling. I would recommend this story to someone that is grieving for anyone because of the way that Dubois characterizes certain parts of death that could let them feel that someone is going to the same thing of them.