Thursday, July 11, 2013

Media Outtake #2: The White Woman's Turning Tables

     When reading Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat, I found that the short story connected to the single Turning Tables by Grammy award winner English recording artist Adele. Both the story and song share how someone is tired of being mistreated and decides to leave their lovers. Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat is about an interracial couple who has to deal with a pregnancy. The woman already decides to go ahead and get an abortion without consulting the father, this is just one example of how she controls the relationship. This also shows how inconsiderate she is. There are also more subtle hints to the white woman’s narcissistic nature. Such an example being how she was only concerned with herself and put lotion on, while the man rowed the boat in the hot sun. He is also hypnotized by her and realizes how he is basically under her control. Towards the end of their conversation in the rowboat, the man realizes that the relationship is going nowhere as she doesn't listen to him or consider his feelings. In the end, he decides to leave her. In the song Turning Tables, Adele shares the accounts of a tumultuous relationship she is in where she feels mistreated, neglected, and controlled. When Adele sings, “Under your thumb, I can’t breathe,” which expresses how Adele feels unimportant because of his controlling and aggressive nature. “Under haunted skies I see, where love is lost…” shows when she realizes that she deserves to be treated better and loses her desire to be with him any longer. The song shares how she can no longer take her lover anymore and chooses to abandon. Both the song and the short story connect in that both the characters have had enough with being mistreated and realize that they deserve better. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx7sLNyIeQk

1 comment:

  1. I definitely see the resemblance in the song Turning Tables, and the book “Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat”. They both are similar in the fact that the woman are stepping up and taking control of their relationships. The white woman in “Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat” decides on her own to get an abortion and that seems to be the final say. The black man just adheres to her decision and leaves it like that, just like with their relationship. I can also see where in Adele’s song she sings about wanting more out of life and wanting to get out of her sinking relationship.

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