The events at the end of the book test the love and Janie must prove her dedication to TeaCake to end his miserable rabid state, Janie feels the wrath of the ‘boys’ from the back of the courtroom. They forgive her later, however, when they realize that what she did was best and that she truly lives TeaCake. Janie’s decision to return to Eatonville with her newfound selfhood shows the solidarity that she feels with the black community and the words of Mrs. Turner made her forget her white lineage and love her blackness. Janie’s to selfhood is also a journey through the varying lifestyles and communities of the thriving African American culture. Hurston succeeds in portraying a political message through her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.
In both stories, the black characters are already prejudged by the white people they come across. The people who are targeted by the racism will overcome and continue to live their lives. The stories happen in different parts of the world, but the mindset of discrimination was the same everywhere at that particular time in history. Wright writes about Jim, a merchant sailor. Olaf was a merchant sailor just like Jim when he was younger; the only problem with Olaf was the color of his skin and his intimidating size.
When Irene visits Clare at her home, she has the pleasure of meeting her husband John. He calls Clare “nig” and openly discusses his hate for “niggers,” believing he is in room with only white people. Larsen portrays how Irene is negatively affected by the white world through this uncomfortable situation that Clare obliges her to endure. She is forced to deny her true identity in front of John so that she can remain loyal to Clare’s true identity, or risk him finding out that he married a woman of color. "She couldn't betray Clare, couldn't even run the risk of appearing to defend a people that were being maligned for fear that that defense might in some infinitesimal degree lead the way to final discovery of her secret!
Dubois’ approach towards segregation and Jim Crow Laws were more effective in the black community. W.E.B. Dubois was one of the most influential black leaders in this time period of American
As a result, she became very bitter, angry, and cold-hearted toward him, and did everything she could to keep him from reading. The sentence in Douglass’s autobiography, “She was an apt woman; and a little experience soon demonstrated, to her satisfaction, that education and slavery were incompatible with each other” tells me that she was a likely person to be swayed by her husband’s opinions. Also, she was eager to let it be known that education and slavery just did not “mix”. That brought on her being very harsh with Douglass. In Douglass’s autobiography, he expressed gratitude toward the white boys in the neighborhood.
His opinion is mixed because although he accepts the society’s idea of Jim being a slave he still respects him. His acceptance of the society’s idea of Jim being a slave is shown when Huck addresses Jim as “Miss Watson’s nigger” (Twain, 17). By addressing Jim as such Huck is excepting society’s position on slavery without really having any experience with it himself. Huck’s acceptance is also shown when Jim brings up the idea of stealing his wife and children back, in which he responds “It most froze me to hear such talk” (Twain, 88). This shows his acceptance because he doesn’t see Jim as a person and he sees his children as someone else’s property, which he feels would be wrong to steal.
Before she thought that Atticus was different from the other fathers in Maycomb because he was too old and couldn’t do anything fun with them. After he killed the mad dog in one shot, Scout was proud of her father and got more influenced in him. Scout is forced to understand that Tom Robinson was being treated differently because he had colored skin. Because of that, Scout realized that people can be prejudice because her father took a case of an African American man who was innocent. It shows that Scout can actually think seriously about things when she says, “Who in this town did anything to help Tom Robinson, just who?”(215).
Dolphus Raymond is objected to this discrimination because of his choice to have relations with an African American woman. The people in Maycomb judge Dolphus Raymond for having children with the African American woman and think poorly of his decisions. To avoid confrontation with anyone as to why he chooses to live his life like that, he walks around drinking a beverage from a brown paper bag and sways when he walks. Scout, Jem, and Dill have a conversation with him and realize that he is not an alcoholic, he just pretends to be to avoid people from questioning his actions. Aunt Alexandria too shows this behavior when Scout asks if Walter Cunningham can come over for lunch.
This was based on the Plessy vs. Ferguson man, Homer Plessy, who was denied a seat on the train that was reserved for white people only. He challenged the railroad on segregation of blacks and whites. He said that his rights were being violated under the fourteenth amendment. The court said that this was not a violation of the fourteenth amendment because the accommodations were “separate but equal.” As long as the train gave equal seats to both whites and blacks it was okay and not a violation to the fourteenth amendment. The fourteenth amendment says that it guarantees all Americans equal treatment.
This is how Carolyn Bryant had put it. | His mother told him “Be careful. If you have to get down on your knees and bow when a white person goes past, do it willingly”. Emmett Till failed to follow this advice and decided to live freely and fairy. I think that equality meant a lot to him and may have made the whites angry as he spoke his opinion.