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A personally interesting incident in the book is when Howard looks in the mirror after changing the color of his skin and sees a black man looking back, Howard panics due to the fact that could have lost his identity. As he decides to explore the Negro world, Griffin anticipates racial oppression, poverty hardship and prejudice based on racial grounds. The extent of the prejudice shocks Griffin, which serves to symbolize the prejudice and discrimination that the black community during the Jim Crow era. The next incident in the book that is personally interesting is the switching of races

Segregation had had many effects on the black nation, to the point that it started building up ones character, “See the depressing clouds of inferiority begin to form in her little mental sky and see her begin to distort her little personality by unconsciously developing a bitterness towards white people”, King shows readers that segregation is even affecting little children, that it is starting to build up a young girls character and is contributing to the child developing hatred “bitterness” towards the white Americans. King makes readers imagine a black cloud settling in a young girls brain mentally, when instead she should have an image of a colorful blue sky with a rainbow, isn’t that suppose to be part of a 6 year-old’s imagination? King gives readers an image of destruction civil disobedience had created in the black community, especially in the young innocent little children.

Morning”. In one of these, a young girl is put down because of the color of her skin, and

In the book, The Help by Kathryn Stockett, the main theme throughout the book is racial prejudice. The book is about a privileged 22 year old girl whose name was Skeeter. She dream was to become a writer so she began to write stories of black maids working in white family homes. All her life she has been told what to believe in and what to think about certain things, but while writing these stories she realized she was able to think for herself. Skeeter was different from the other white girls. She kind of became an outcast among her friends and her community because of the rules she was breaking. Skeeter only wanted to become a writer, but she hoped that the book she wrote would make people understand that there is not much of a

In The Ethics of Living Jim Crow by Richard Wright, various stylistic devices and rhetorical strategies are used such as symbolism, and colloquial language. The use of Wright’s symbolism of the “green growing things” establishes how African-Americans were disadvantaged in their upcoming. In this, the white boys which lived beyond the tracks were able to hide “behind trees, hedges, and the sloping embankments of their lawns.” The symbolism of these green things, displays how white people had an upper advantage in society, having luxurious lives to hide behind. Meanwhile, Wright remarked “I didn't have any trees or hedges to hide behind” displaying how African Americans were not protected, leaving them easily discriminated against and futile against attack. In this, Wright remarks that the green things “grew into an overarching symbol of fear.” Furthermore, the use of colloquial language by white people displayed how they had the freedom to say what they pleased, whereas Wright had to talk formally to white people using phrases such as “Yes, sir", and“No, sir, Mr. Pease.” Additionally, Wright had to question every word he said, in an attempt to not to offend a white man, describing how “To have said: "Thank you!" would have made the white man think that you thought you were receiving from him a personal service. For such an act I have seen Negroes take a blow in the mouth.” Together, these stylistic choices affect the tone and meaning of the work as they display the unjust

Racism is a big part of this book. It shows the absurdity of what people thought back then, which is an important lesson. It is important for us to learn what people’s views used to be, and how important it is not to go back to that mindset.

In the short story “The Scarlet Ibis” James Hurst views difference as a reason why people can’t see the good and equal opportunity among all people through Brother’s view of Doodle as a burden, and through Doodle’s family view of him as

Discrimination throughout America has created a monumental impact on people of all race, religion, and ethnicity. It has outraged and criticised minorities of the entire U.S population. It might seem like a small deal, but only the people facing discrimination would know. The novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee and the movie The Help by Tate Taylor, are based on similar ideas of how discrimination has made an impact on everyday lives of people who look different and have different beliefs. To Kill A Mockingbird was published in 1960 but is based on the times of 1930’s, a time of the Jim Crow Laws. In the 1930’s, discrimination was a big complication. It is based on the racially charged events of the early 1930’s. Similarly, The Help is set in the early years of the 1960’s, mainly focusing on the idea of gender and racial discrimination. The character Scout from To Kill A Mockingbird and the character Skeeter from The Help have both similar and different views and reactions towards discrimination. Scout thinks it is unnecessary and a waste of time while Skeeter comparably thinks it is wrong and that all people should be treated equally.

In the story, the main character, Lily, ran away to a household of black women. As a white girl running away with her black caretaker to a family of black women, Lily was looked at as a someone who did not get the racial divide, especially during the 1960s. At the beginning of the book, Lily’s caretaker Rosaleen was beaten by white police officers after she spit tobacco onto a couple white men’s shoes after they harassed Rosaleen about registering to vote. This shows how the southern was unwilling to change their views of black people because they were previous slaves. The southern white still viewed the black community as inferior. They treated the blacks still as if they had no rights; the white community beat them, yelled at them, and segregated them. For a police officer to beat a black women on such a little infraction it shows that the white police officer thought he had to break the law to put a black woman “in her place”. This is completely relevant to society today because there are still acts of racism and hate crimes towards blacks. Recently on March 20, 2017, a black homeless man, Timothy Caughman, was fatally stabbed by a white army veteran, James Harris Jackson. Caughman’s murder was later deemed a hate crime. (CBS News) This tragic event happened very recently

Richard Wright’s “Native Son” Bigger shows us the short end of the stick of how it feels to be seen as a second-class citizen for being black. His speech talking about how he feels like a prisoner in this world just because he is black. (Wright P.17) This prison pain of Bigger in Wright’s novel shows how the negative effects of fear and discrimination affect minorities in our society. This discrimination just for existence is mirrored in the “Diary of Anne Frank” and “The Color of Water”. In the Diary of Anne Frank, spends two years of her life in an attic with her family and other Jewish people, hiding from the government trying to capture them just because they are Jewish. In “The Color of Water” Ruth McBride describes how the KKK was a huge part of her hometown. That whenever a car full of white hoods drove past, any African Americans in the store would run home, Ruth did the same thing, knowing her family was also in danger. (McBride P.58)

This story takes place pre civil rights movement in a time where racism was widely practiced on not just a

Anne was immediately confused by their presence because they seemed to be just like her except for skin color. On one occasion all the children were playing together in the lobby of a movie theater. Anne was with some local white children playing, but when it was time to enter the movie lobby the white children went in one direction and Anne went in after her friends. Her disapproving mother quickly stopped Anne and they left the theater. Before this instance Anne had never considered the coincidence that all the white children watched the movie from the bottom terrace and all the African America children from the top terrace. While thinking about the difference Anne realized that the bottom terrace and side entrance was much more luxurious than the raggedy top terrace, where she and her mother usually sat (38-2). After this the difference in skin color became much more apparent to her in everyday life. Anne was motivated to find the answers as to why she was treated differently because of the color of her skin.

Internalized oppression is just one factor that contributes to the inescapability of intergenerational trauma. Alexie uses figurative language to demonstrate that the cycle of oppression is further perpetuated by the concept of racial inferiority, poverty, and failure to achieve an education in his short story “The Only Traffic Signal on the Reservation Doesn’t Flash Red Anymore”. The main character, Victor, sits on the porch with his friend Adrian as they reminisce their past and hope for others futures. Victor claims that “Indians [could] easily survive the big stuff... It’s the small things that hurt the most. The white waitress who wouldn’t take an order, Tonto, the Washington Redskins” (49).

Privilege plays a major role in the novel “To Kill a Mocking Bird “by Harper Lee. Set in 1930’s during the great depression in the southern part of America where racism is predominant and still is in some parts of the world, portrays the lesson of “Privilege is real from race to baking cakes. Sometimes you’re born into it, and sometimes you’re born with it”. The bitter reality of this lesson is that it still exists and is hard to come to an end.

The book’s character’s main problem is finding individuality in racism. For the duration of the book, the narrator is constantly fighting racism and stereotypes. Ellison put many examples in the book to help show the character’s fight to be seen equal. Ellison shows that, through the character himself, that you can not tell people who to be. However, Ellison throws curves at the narrator that challenges