The Theme Of Fear In 'Sow Dragon Teeth'

Racism was a big problem during the 18 and 19’s century. White people always thought that they were at the higher level in the society and they treated black harshly. They could trade them in the markets. They also thought the deserved to have better life, better education, better house, etc. Why this happened? The government was the chief culprit. The government educated white people that they were above the blacks. Because of that, they taught their children in the same idea. Luckily, the growing number of people realized that it was unfair and they tried to make the government treated everyone equally. More than that, the government laid down the law of protecting all of the colored people; however, even the laws passed, the racism still happens today. Black people were classified as robbers, murders, or thieves and a lot of people judge them with this category.

There was unemployment to a certain degree amongst the black community, as over 10% of black people were unemployed. This could be linked to poverty and poor quality of schooling and education Poverty and the condition of living and housing was a major

problems of poverty and discrimination faced by Black Americans at the end of the nineteenth

For example, African Americans were not able to enjoy the many advantages the decade brought for most people. They were forced to work very laborious jobs for little or no money, and most lived in very poor neighborhoods. African Americans also dealt with the terrors of an organization that preached hate towards blacks called the Klu Klux Klan, or KKK. The KKK was predominantly from the southern states and were feared by African Americans. In the northern states, most of the well-paying jobs were going to white citizens, while black people were forced to work the low end jobs. The only positive side to this, was that the KKK was almost non-existent in the northern states. African Americans would find solace in music during this time. Dancing and jazz music were mostly popular with white people, but African Americans loved them as well. It helped them find some enjoyment and relief from the horrible society that surrounded them during this time (The Roaring

The story begins with the description of a deep night and two men bent by their lonely fire. These men are speaking about a strange, mysterious creature, which seems to ruin everything on its way. They are talking about a dreadful dragon, which is described with much detail: “This dragon, they say his eyes are fire. His breath a white gas; you can see him bum across the dark lands”, “Passing, the black brunt of its shoulder smashed the remaining horse and rider a hundred feet against the side of a boulder, wailing, wailing, the dragon shrieking, the fire all about, around, under it, a pink, yellow, orange sun-fire with

The Great depression caused many problems for black people and they were greatly affected by it. Problems of the Great Depression affected every American, however, African Americans were the most affected. By 1932 half of Black Americans were out of work. In some Northern cities, blacks were fired so that a white person could take their job. But yet again, racial violence became more common, especially in the South. Even when President Roosevelt was trying to end the Great Depression there was still a conflict between the blacks and whites in the New Deal Housing and employment projects. This just goes to show that once everything has been set in motion that it can't really become a non-normal thing. Everyone was mostly worrying about themselves and their own people that they didn't bother

Socially African Americans were taken advantage of by the whites, politically they implemented laws that controlled and limited african americans rights and economically, sharecropping

This affected the economy because they could not meet the demands of the country. Although as a whole all men and women had their problems the people facing the most conflict were the Afro-Americans. During this time the Jim Crow Laws were taken in action. It was said that everything was to be separate but equal. In theory this seemed as a good idea at the time but in reality it was not. The African American people had their own schools, churches and even bathrooms but they were not the same. The school did not have enough supplies or even space for the amount of students they

In spite of their freedom, the majority of these blacks lived in the poorest areas of the city, and they were banned from schools and other public amenities. White employers were hostile to African Americans refusing to hire them for anything but inferior jobs, and white customers frowned upon interacting with the black employee. This led to a downhill spiral of all African Americans economic status. Furthermore, if you were a slave during this time period, your opportunity for economic growth was almost nothing. Slaves were still owned and controlled by their masters; therefore, they were confined to the land on which they worked.

Every single person in this world fears something, and there is magnificent amount of different types of fear that people know of. Each type of fear has a different name. For example, fear of change is called metathesiophobia, and fear of darkness is called Achluophobia. Fear can be not only a phobia but in a novel it can be represented as theme. One of the examples of a novel that has a lot of fear in it is The Chrysalids by John Wyndham which took place in the future, years after a nuclear holocaust has devastated large areas of the world. In that novel Wyndham explores many themes throughout the text, the main one being fear. The existence of fear in this novel is a critical factor in the unfolding of the plot. Most of the problems that occurred in John Wyndham’s tale happen because of fear. Overall, this is shown through everyone’s fear of being different, fear helped to develop Petra’s character, and by everyone thinking that if a baby was born as a blasphemy, the women is always the one who is responsible for that, but never the man.

Fear brings forth a certain atmosphere which compels us to act upon it. The era in which the book was published allows us to see how common these fears were. Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House is an excellent portrayal of how fear controls the human mind by using the characters as examples. In the book Eleanor, Theodora, Luke, and Dr. Montague have all been influenced by fear in the story, whether it be the fear of love, the unknown, family, rejection, expression, or loneliness. These different types of fear plagued their minds, causing their actions to reflect upon them. Jackson explores the theme of fear in The Haunting of Hill House by creating a cast of characters that in turn are manipulated by the inner workings of their minds and the malevolent manifestations of Hill House.

African Americans had little opportunity to better themselves economically. Some laws prohibited them from teaching and from entering certain other businesses and professions. Large numbers of blacks had to take low-paying jobs as farm hands or as servants for white employers. Many others were forced to become sharecroppers or tenant framers. They rented small plots of land and paid the rent with money earned from the crops. Struggling to survive, many ran up huge debts to their white landlords or the town merchants. Fortunately, there were rays of sunshine forcing their way through this cloudy time.

This social control made it extremely hard for African Americans to make money for themselves and their family’s during this time period and is very close to how criminals are being treated in today’s world.

Black men had to be careful with women. They couldn't look at women in the eye or whistle at them because they would get hanged. There was an assault in Rosewood a black man got into a White House and assaulted a woman she wasn't hurt badly. Then the white women husband started a riot with white men to go and kill all black people that they see. The riot started to burn down the buildings that are owed by the black people. There was one women that ran out of a burning building was shot in the jaw and took it right off. People didn't want to go outside to the riot so they hid under the burning buildings. A group of blacks were barracked in a building while the whites were firing rounds after rounds in the building. To this day no one knows

When it says “DRAGON’S TEETH” it reminds me of a fairy tale. Usually in fairy tales The story involves an upper class woman, generally a princess or similar high-ranking nobility, saved from a dragon, either a literal dragon or a similar danger, by the hero (in this case the little boy pretending to be a prince). After the mom reads the boy a story of saving the princess through thorns, which in this case is the barb wire from the company “DRAGON’S TEETH” (Gordimer 14) the boy kisses the girl and brings her back to life. This fairy tale is ironic because usually fairy tales end happily while this fairy tale is a more realistic fairy tale.