Tom Buchanan Analysis

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An Excerpt from the Autobiography of Tom Buchanan I never thought the day would come when I would have waste my time looking at a colored person. Come on, let’s face it, I’m the Tom, the billionaire, the boss; and I just think that if my eyes are going to look at a color, they might as well as be green, you know what I’m talking about?. The world today is messed up, there is black, yellow, and brown, and yes I’m not colorblind, I wish I was. You know I wasn’t like this in my juvenile days, I had many colored friends, we played multiple games together, went to different plays; which of course was paid by my father, but what I’m saying is that I trusted them, they were like brothers to me. And then on one morning, in 1922, October 5th at…show more content…
On that day I overheard them, they as I quote said “is that arrogant, hypocritical, loser coming again today, I wish he could just give us money instead of taking us to all these different places”. My innocent mind couldn’t comprehend anything at that moment, I was confused, is it some sort of a game there playing? Is it just mind playing tricks on me? It has to be because those guys wouldn’t say something like that; it has to be a misunderstanding, yeah that’s what it was a misunderstanding. The second comment they made is what punched me back to reality; it made realize that this wasn’t a misunderstanding, rather it was certainty, and that it was actually happening right before my eyes. “When can we stop being friends with that loser, I’m sick of looking at his snobby face, I wish he was dead, that way we can get something out of it for my his so-called friends”, it felted as if my heart has been constantly stabbed with the sharpest knife ever. From that day on I made a pledge, I promised myself that if I ever encounter a black, yellow, and brown person, I would “drink from the cup of bitterness and hatred” ( “Cup of bitterness and Hatred”) and despised them for what they did to me in my childhood. You know I thought things would change after marrying

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