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Summary Of This Morning So Soon

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“This Morning, This Evening, So Soon” shows an interesting portrayal of race. The primary idea behind it is that it is not just black and white and I mean this quite literally. This story presents the idea that there are many different groups that are discriminated against. An idea that was previously explored in “Previous Condition”, when Peter’s Jewish friend Jules, attempts to sympathize with Peter’s anguish by explaining that he has also been discriminated against for being Jewish. This idea is shown through the Narrator’s Tunish friend Boona. He is accused of stealing money from Ada by Pete, while they are at the nightclub. We are led to believe that this is true based on several people’s reports. However, Boona says otherwise and claims: “I think it is that Frenchman who say I am a thief. They think we are all thieves.” Clearly, he is insinuating that they are accusing merely because he is Tunisian. Weather or not he did steal the money, it is very possible that it is true. Earlier it was pointed out that he is unable to got out with French or White girls because he is arab, so clearly it is common for him to be …show more content…

The most interesting one though, revolves around the use of the word “boy”. When the narrator gets off the boat in America he is annoyed that he is being called a ‘boy’, which we can assume is a racially charged term given his reaction to it: “When will I ever get to be a man?” And his description of the man who said it: “This was the face I remembered, the face of nightmares” (164-165). This language then shows up again later in the book, however this time it is Pete, an African-American, using it to describe Boona, when he is telling the Narrator of Boona’s theft: “I fear your boy has goofed”. This is especially interesting to me as I would of thought Pete would be acquainted enough with that term to not use

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