Question Of Identity In Eric Jerome Dickey's Milk

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Question of Identity in Eric Jerome Dickey's Milk in My Coffee Milk in my Coffee is a novel about relationships between women and men. The main couple in the novel is that of Jordan Greene and Kimberley Chavers. There are many other characters, some of them were involved in parallel love affairs with either Jordan or Kimberley, some of them are coming from the past some of them from present but all of them have some kind of impact in searching for identity of main characters. The couple has a lot of problems and they had to fight against prejudices during the course of the relation. The message that the author is trying to deliver is obviously related to the color-problem and could be seen in Kimberley‘s words during her conversation about race with Jordan : “White‘s a color, I‘m a person, a human being, not painted.“ Black and white can be considered almost as a paint that is applied to the skin, but should not affect the identity of the individual. While Jordan is worried about how society will accept him with a white women, Kimberley bears scars from her childhood because she was not black enough. She struggles with the fact that in a society dominated by blacks she must prove all the time that she is African American woman. Finally, this prejudice in society made damage for all her life as Kimberley explained, she said: “On the outside, it may look wrong, it may sound bad. But to understand what it did to a person, it had to be you. You couldn’t explain away the pain. And you didn’t forget the words. The looks. The snickers. You never forgot the feelings or rejection. It hurt because of the way they said it. The way they talked down to me. The way they talked at me. It made me cry, and I hated seeing them. And since I didn’t look like they wanted me to, like what they thought the people in their family should look like, I was the
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