Black Like Me
Theme: Discrimination because of race can change a person's whole outlook on life. John is a white writer who spends six weeks as a "Negro" in the southern states. He later reports of his trials and hardships, he tells how he dealt with racism as both a white man and a black man. This book takes place in mostly the southern states. John travels from New Orleans, Louisiana, through Mississippi, and then into Alabama as a "Negro." It started in October of 1959 and John returned home to Mansfield, Texas in December. For the next eight months John tells the papers, television stations, and radios of his experiences living as a "Negro." During those eight months he also has some threats towards his family, so they t
With out John wanting to do this nothing would have worked. I was imprisoned in the flesh of an utter stranger, an unsympathetic on with whom I felt no kinship. Sterling Williams was "the shoe shining man. The transformation was total and shocking. He also didn't change his personality or even his name. " After doing so he then walked the streets of Louisiana, spent nights in random hotels, and traveled at the back of the bus. " Discussion:Finding out how it feels to be discriminated because of your race is a factor of both the plot and the characterization. " He was in his fifty and had a limp, which with he had to use a crutch. He had a loving wife and 3 kids who he absolutely adored. The whole basis of the story was to figure out what effect discrimination has on a person.
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