This text brings up several heavy topics that may be uncomfortable to discuss, and these topics embody the themes that were present throughout the story. These themes include racism, isolationism, and loneliness. The presence of the issue of racism in this book is very prevalent throughout the entire story. For example, Doctor Benedict Mady Copeland is a colored man who defies the traditional southern stereotype that black people are not equal members of society and therefore cannot have well-paying, important jobs. Doctor Copeland goes around and helps many people living in his town, but usually the only people that he helps are blacks like himself.
That started the separation of “color”. Statistics also shows dark skin women have trouble finding a job in the business industry today. Skin color still has an effect in the Twentieth century. Another key was to turn the race against each other using age, size, and intelligence. Black Americans believe they should look, dress, and act a certain way.
This character embodies the issue of male-dominated African American society as well as the concept of beauty as a means of "making it" in the African American society. The class distinction concept is the issue inscribed in many other characters in The Bluest Eye. It explores the fact that African American people's identities are shaped by different factors – such as ancestry, wealth, education or darkness of their skin. The novel presents several different African American families that expose prejudices to their fellow African Americans and clearly display their special social status. The class distinction among African American characters in The Bluest Eye can be followed from the upper class, represented by the family of the MacTeers, to the poorest family of the Breedloves.
Jurgis has begged for food, stolen food to survive, worked long hours every day, gone to jail for crimes he did not commit and lost his loved ones. “He has been only six months in America, and the change has not dome him good”(14). In the early 1900s the American Dream was to start from nothing, and to live a life better than the country you immigrated from. In the early 1900s, immigrants came to America in search of a better life, but were struck by the empty and unforgiving land of America. “They had dreamed of freedom; to see their child grow strong”(138).
After great determination and hard work, he is able to pull off a major comeback in his career. The movie revolves around the economic instability in the family of James J. Braddock. In a scene where Braddock tries to find a job in the dockyard, a newspaper reads “Unemployed Hits Record 15,000,000”, which tries to portray the situation during the Great Depression before World War II. Here, many men are shown working hard day and night to support their family through crisis. As the American Dream states, “Life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement regardless of social class or circumstances of birth.” in the movie, Braddock, although working very hard, gets fired and doesn’t even get a job to support his family.
His view of success was inspired by Dave Singleman, who at the age of 84 could sell anything to anyone from his hotel room and whose funeral was attended by hundreds of people. However, already at the beginning of the play, Willy is a tired, suicidal old man who doesn’t possess the personal charm and cheerfulness he used to, and therefore he’s barely making enough money to live on. All his material wealth has been bought on credit, and he is scarcely capable of
Debra Shaw Professor Magarine English II 21 February 2012 My Brother’s Keeper James Baldwin was an artist who transcended above the voice and ideas of critics who did not think he would be successful in his endeavors. He lived during an era of time when segregation was rampant and blacks did not have a vote. Although, Baldwin was black, poor and gay he made a great impact on society with his creative writing style. “Sonny Blues,” depicts a true historical event of the racial tension and difficulties that African American Families faced in the 1950’s. Living in the ghetto is a time of darkness and despair for most black families and for a majority of the people it is a way of life and death.
There are many textual and symbolic details in the story that support the claim that Dave Saunders is changing from a boy to a man. This sexual and mental coming of age happens because of what Dave faces with his work and family life, and because of the role that the gun plays throughout the story. The story’s protagonist, Dave Saunders, is an uneducated black teenager who lives with his parents in a rural, unknown part of the southern United States. Although Dave and his parents are not slaves he does work for a white landowner plowing fields for very small wages. Even though Dave does earn money from plowing fields he never sees any of it because his parents demand that the money is given to them.
Furthermore during this time Americans had a surplus of goods and services from which to choose, and the money with which to purchase them. However,the economic boom brought high inflation, which kept poorer citizens from saving any money, the lowest-paid workers in the country were the farm workers, with sales clerks and unskilled labourers .Happy, a sales clerk, Biff an aspiring farmworker , and Willy Loman a man with a dwindling sales career reflect the mental state of the American People of the time that battled to achieve Capitalist success i.e. acquiring material possessions as the basis of social approval. Willy loman in particular was effected by the Capitalist ideal , he believed that being "well liked" and a great salesman would make him a man worth remembering . But at the age of sixty- three and nearing retirement, Willy is seen as a man who gave all of his life to a business, "I'm tired to death" only to be thrown in the scrap-heap and as a house holder whose pattern of life was interwoven with instalment plans with which he could hardly catch up.
Furthermore this ongoing residential suburban segregation has long term effect on Afro-American families as well as on their ability to sell and purchase homes, due to the red-lining of such vicinities described below. Suburban residential segregation may also result from the so-called institutional discrimination or denial of equal rights and opportunities to groups or individuals that results from the society’s normal operations. The interaction between residential segregation and institutional discrimination has ultimately created a dual realty market that is generally acknowledged and supported by considerable amount of literature. This dual housing market is the market segregated by race where African-Americans endure housing selections which in their turn are the result of both overt and institutional discrimination. There are lots of factors involved in the suburban residential segregation and discrimination phenomenon.