Milkman in a way also rebels against his father by hitting him and deciding not to join the family business with his father. “Writers have always been concerned with the freedom of the human spirit, whether through dreaming, solitude, or rebellion.” This statement is illustrated in Song of Solomon through Guitar and Milkman’s quests in the novel. Guitar at the beginning of the book is just a curious teenager who starts getting interested in the civil rights movement. He gets very enraged speaking about the racism that goes on and he exaggerates about how bad it is. Morrison allows Guitar to have freedom of his human spirit through rebellion.
They feared Richard, and some of the white people felt it necessary to act out their racist feelings in order to cover up their fear. White coworkers beat Richard because his boss was kind to him. Richard later had to leave a good job because those racist co-workers would “kill” him. When the principal at Richard’s school had asked Richard to give a speech to a large audience of white and black people, Richard refused to read the principal’s prepared speech. By reading the principal’s speech, Richard was saying what the white power wanted him to say and to Richard this would be giving in to the very thing he hated so much.
In 1955, Rosa Parks was told to move out of a seat for a white man to sit in, but she refused, and she started getting well known, and also started working with Martin Luther King Jr. Emmett Till was killed because he flirted with a white woman at the woman’s husband’s store. The woman’s husband, Roy Bryant murdered him with his brother in law. The two articles talk about the lynching of Emmett Till, and how it happened. They express the two central messages in the same way. The documentary expresses it in a different way from the articles.
When Lennie arrives at his room, he turns him away, hoping to prove a point that if he, as a black man, is not allowed in white men’s houses, then whites are not allowed in his, but his desire for company ultimately wins out and he invites Lennie to sit with him. Like Curley’s wife, Crooks is disempowered, but turns his vulnerability into a weapon to attack those who are even weaker. Crooks begins to pick on Lennie, suggesting George won’t come home, and a slight mean streak is exposed that has probably developed after being alone for so long. Lennie unwittingly soothes Crooks into feeling at ease, and Candy even gets him excited about the dream farm. Crooks’s little dream of the farm is shattered by Curley’s wife’s nasty comments, putting the black man right into his "place" as inferior to a white woman, somebody already seen as being inferior to everyone else on the ranch to begin with.
[pic] Why do they call you “The Man in Black”? They call me “The Man in Black” because when I went to, you know get out there me and my band went to a record company; we were dressed in black we dressed like that because that was the only colour we all had. Describe your childhood. Why was your relationship with your father so difficult? Mine and my father’s relationship was very difficult because of the accident that happened to my brother where he was cut by the circular saw, and even to this day I still blame myself for what happened to my brother, my father being an alcoholic that he is didn’t really help me cope with the situation of my brother’s death What and who were your earliest musical influences?
An obvious conflict was when the mob came to Tom Robinson's jail cell with the intents of lynching him only to be met by an opposing Atticus. As a result of the town’s prejudice and racism, they wanted to kill Tom because of this false accusation presented against him. They would be willing to kill the man even though there wasn’t any evidence to show that he did the crime. Right before Scout swooped in, Atticus and them shared some dialogue, “‘You know what we want,’ another man said. ‘Get aside from the door, Mr. Finch.’ ‘You can turn around and go home again, Walter,’ Atticus said pleasantly.
This affects his loneliness because he has no one to stand up for him. Secondly, Crooks has no family on the ranch, “...there ain’t a coloured man on this ranch” (70). This makes him lonely because he has know one to talk to and he is the only coloured man on the ranch. Thirdly, Crooks is bullied, “They let the nigger come in that night” (20). On Christmas the boss brought a gallon of whisky and told the ranchmen to drink.
He is almost completely shunned from the town because he is trying to help a black man accused of rape. Mayella had told Tom, “I said come here, nigger, and bust up this chiffarobe for me, I gotta nickel for you.” (p.241) She had tricked him to coming over to her. Then that’s about the time when she accuses him of rape. He had felt sorry for her, which is why he was falsely accused in the first place. Courthouse segregation was one of the biggest bits of racism I found in this book.
At last he talks about how some men who tried to use the Axe product and how it did not transform them into a great looking sex magnet, so they started to use too much of it and on a school in Minnesota it got banned, because it stank so much. And dorks and nerds began to buy Axe also, and the brand took a huge hit, because it got a bad rumor. The headline has a question, which gets answered already in the headline to. But it captures the reader’s attention already there. The headline is true to the content in the article.
Bigger eventually flees in hopes to not be caught for the crime, and rapes and kills his girlfriend to keep her quiet. One might view the book as just an exciting, gruesome, sad story about the unfortunate fate of an extremely unintelligent and violent black man, but the meaning of Native Son is much deeper than the obvious- Richard Wright wanted his readers to look further into his writing. Wright wanted his readers to know and understand the effects of oppression and to ultimately end oppression. Native Son is not only informative about the life for African American’s in the 1930’s, but expressive in showing the effects of oppression, and persuasive in persuading the readers to take steps of action against oppression. Native Son is Richard Wrights “call to action”.