The Beach Umbrella by Cyrus Colter
Review:This is a great semi- short story to use when teaching "characterization". I picked this story because of it's main characters comparison with A Raisin in the Sun. I could tell my class hated it and thought, oh well another story about prejudice. It was interesting to see the looks on their faces when we got to the curses at the very end. I stressed to them the importance of the use of dialect and they seemed at ease, but I could still hear the giggles. Please, like they don't say worse things to each other.
About the author:
(b. 1910), novelist, lawyer, U.S. Army captain, and professor. After careers in government service, law, the Army, and academia, Cyrus Colter began writing at fifty. Colter placed his first short story, “A Chance Meeting,” in Threshold in 1960. He went on to place stories in such little magazines as New Letters, Chicago Review, and Prairie Schooner. Fourteen of his stories are collected in his first book, The Beach Umbrella (1970). In 1990 Colter published a second collection of short fiction, The Amoralists and Other Tales.
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