Doaker tells Wining Boy, Lymon, and Boy Willie that: “Berniece ain’t gonna sell that piano. Cause her daddy died over it” (Wilson 1465). Berniece holds onto the piano for sentimental values. She believes her father died getting it back, and therefore it should be kept in the family. She also thinks it is selfish of Willie to want to sell the piano when their mother went through so much after the father died.
He is eager to get back into his original passion of cockfighting instead of regarding his wife, Juana, and two children, Hector and Angela. Conflict arises when his son Hector refuses to get along with his father, especially when Hector has something Gallo wants, which is the prize-winning rooster. The story of August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson, features an African American family that explores events in the past of how the old carved piano was stolen by Berniece and Boy Willie’s father from their family’s slave owner, Sutter. This certain piano held their family legacy when their great-grandmother and grandpa were slaves and traded in for the piano that Sutter made a deal with. Brother Boy Willie wants to sell the piano for money
He states, “She pecks on me all de time, en treats me pooty rough…sell me down to New Orleans..I lit out mighty quick, I tell you.” (50) | 2. I felt that Jim did the right thing running away. Jim didn’t want to be sold down to New Orleans because it is very slave-oriented and harsh down there. My theme of slavery/racism relates here because Jim knows how bad the deep South treats slaves and he also knows that if he goes to New Orleans he won’t have any chance at freedom. This reminds me of the show Everybody Hates Chris because Chris is a black kid who is forced to attend a nice white school by his mother.
Lily also lives with her father and she says in the book that it never felt right to call him dad so she just settled on T. Ray. T. Ray is abusive and convinces Lily that her mother’s death is all her fault by telling her that she picked up the gun and it went off in her hands and killed her mother and that her mother didn’t care about her at all and left her. The date is 1964 and President Johnson has just signed the Civil Rights Act. Rosaleen decides that she wants to register to vote and Lily walks with her into town. As they reach the outskirts of town Rosaleen and Lily come across three white men who harass Rosaleen.
Noah’s god was essentially disgusted with himself for having made these sinful creatures and decided to kill everything. He was going to wipe the slate clean and let Noah start it all over. Over in Gilgamesh land they were having a big party and while Ea thought it was fun to listen in on, Enlil couldn’t sleep at night because his windows were always rattling. Enlil got with the neighborhood watch and they decided that the best way to handle the noise problem was to just kill everyone making noise. Ea felt bad so decided to warn Gilgamesh.
T. Ray then tells Lily that one of Rosaleen’s attacker is considered the towns worst racist and that he would kill Rosaleen even if she does apologize. At home T. Ray makes a comment about how Deborah had already left Lily when she came home and was killed, and to just grab her things, not Lily. Even though that comment really hurt Lily she did not believe that that’s why her mom came back. She soon notices that the bee jar is empty, and she realizes that she needs to escape her own jar meaning to run away. On their way to Tiburon a black man driving a truck of Cantaloupe picks them up.
They never really got along, however he continues in the text saying that after his father’s death he began to contemplate and wonder why this was. He came to the retaliation that his father was very paranoid even with his own family. Before his death, he stopped eating food from his family because he believed they were trying to poison him. The rest of his essay speaks of the harsh society during the era of the civil rights movement. His father despised white people and barely ever trusted any of them, which was the stem of his paranoia.
prejudice is extreme in to kill a mockingbird : it is found in many forms including racial and social prejudice. prejudice by definition is to judge someone without knowing the full truth of that person. Tom Robinson are in my opinion the ones most affected by racial prejudice in the book. Tom RObinson was a good, loyal black man who was accused by Bob Ewell of raping his daughter: MAyella Ewell. Although all the evidence Atticus has gotten together points to Tom Robinson, the Jury is made up of all white farmers who are all racists and they found Tom guilty the second he was accused.
In the novel, The Grapes Of Wrath, by John Steinbeck, the land is often seized from farmers because they cannot afford to keep it due to a bad harvest season. The land is seized because of the Great Depression. The dirt has all of its nutrients stripped away because of the Dust Bowl, making it difficult for the farmers to harvest valuable crops to pay rent to their landowners. Losing the land makes the farmers depressed and desperate for the emotion the land brought them because they are emotionally attached to it since they have built their lives and families off of it even though they rent it. When the land lets farmers down, by not producing much crop because of conditions, they get disappointed as their land gets taken away, but farmers still lust to have an emotional attachment with the land.
Emmett Louis Till, a 14 year old black boy, was violently murdered after reportedly whistling to the white woman who ran the local grocery store. The woman’s husband and his half-brother took Emmett to a barn and shot him through the head, but not before beating him and gouging one of his eyes out. They then disposed his body in the Tallahatchie River. White people thought that, because it was a black person that supposedly committed a crime, they could take matters into their own hands and deal with it themselves. Many innocent black people got murdered by white people, and they were never punished as bad as coloured men and women were.