Alex Haley's Roots: The Saga of an American Family encouraged black Americans to explore their past and helped to popularize oral history and family history in the United States. His writing reminds us that oral history recording taps into a vast, rich reservoir of oral traditions sustained through family, community and national memories.As a boy, Alex Haley spent his summers on his grandmother's front porch in Henning, Tennessee. listening to her and her sisters tell stories of the family's history back through the days of slavery. The "Furthest–Back person" they spoke of was an ancestor they called "the African," who was kidnapped in his native country, shipped to Annapolis, Maryland, and sold into slavery. He remembered hearing:"Yeah, boy, that African say his name was 'Kin-tay'; he say the banjo was 'ko,' an' the river 'Kamby-Bolong,' an' he was off choppin' some wood to make his drum when they grabbed 'im!"These stories stayed with young Alex throughout his life. And he became obsessed with finding his family's roots in Africa.With the help of some friends and a linguist from West Africa, he learned that some of the words in his grandmother's stories were like Mandinka words (a language spoken by some tribes), and that the river she spoke of as 'Kamby Bolong' was probably the Gambia River. Alex knew that he must get to the Gambia River.With the help of Gambian officials, he learned that a griot, or oral historian, knew the history of a Kin-tay family. Could this be his own family? Alex Haley began his own trip up the Gambia River to find out.
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That you don't want to spend so much money on fashion. And that's a good thing.
<u>Answer:</u>
The depictions of nature of female power in the poems Siren Song and Aunt Jennifer's Tigers is in complete contrast with each other.
<u>Explanation:</u>
In the poem "Siren Song" female is shown as the one who holds the power over various men whereas in Aunt Jennifer's Tigers, the female is shown to be suppressed by her own husband.
In the poem Aunt Jennifer's Tigers, Aunt Jennifer is shown to express her feelings of wanting freedom and independence through her sewn tigers, which depict how she had been suppressed by her husband her entire life and has always wanted to escape like the tigers go "prancing, proud and unfraid"
whereas the poem The Siren Song shows men to be lured by a woman's call towards herself make the foolish and lustful men attracted leading to their own destruction on the fateful rocks thus showing the power women have on men which is in contradiction to the other poem.
