Shorty is the young black boy who gets beat by the white people and jokes about it. Richard hates Shorty because he
Some look down because they don’t want to be accused of looking at her. The white men are yelling at them to look at her, or don’t look at her. The boys don’t know how they are expected to behave because they are now supposed to have equal rights and they should be able to look at the woman, but the white men are yelling at them like animals. The white men were in control, they white men found entertainment in this because they believe that blacks are still lower than them. They also believe that women are lower than them because they can subject the blonde woman to be ogled in a room by a bunch of people to watch their reactions and not think twice about it.
The narrator protests that Norton ordered him to stop at the cabin. Bledsoe replies that white people constantly give foolish orders and that the narrator, having grown up in the South as a black man, should know how to lie his way out of such situations. Bledsoe says that he will have to investigate the veteran who mocked Norton. He picks up a slave’s leg shackle and informs the narrator that he must be disciplined. The narrator threatens to tell everyone that Bledsoe broke his promise to Norton not to punish him.
The white society inflicts pain on the black man by treatin in in a very hostile manner and setting him on fire. They said to the black man “Take your hands out of your pockets, nigger; we gonna have plenty heat in a minnit”,(178) They did this to set an example, for the other black people in the town to respect the white society and in order to put fear in their hearts. The white society treats the black society this way because they see black men as underdogs and never wants the black society to think that they are better than the white society. Not only men are oppresses but also women. Men look down on women and treat them as if they are inferior.
Having an imagination is necessary to get deeper in the story, and a good memory is also required to tie the pieces of the story together. And of course an artistic sense to appreciate the beauty of the author’s writing. Nabokov states “Since the master artist used his imagination in creating his book, it is natural and fair that the consumer of a book should use his imagination too.” The reader needs to also understand and appreciate the language used by the author. He needs to pay attention and notice the details in a novel and not just the general storyline. He needs to read with an open mind regardless of other people’s judgment of the novel.
It is here that they are further humiliated in front of the group when a naked blond begins to dance in front of them causing the white men to begin to threaten the group of boys; some were threats to not look at the girl and some were threats that they have to look at the girl. This causes further confusion for the narrator as well as the other group of boys because not only are the threatened and humiliated publicly they are also placed into a situation in which they have no chance of winning. While the girl was dancing around the boys naked one of the boys actually becomes so humiliated that he faints and another boy begins to cry and plead that he wants to go home. This makes an impression on the narrator because he is still confused on what he should actually do in his current situation. After the spectacle in front of them leaves the boys are led to a ring and told that they would be blindfolded and have to fight each other this is the point that the battle royal is about to begin.
The taunted person may even be told that they are not allowed to hang out with the other members of the group anymore because they will not follow the group in the things they do. The reasons boys and girls bully are similar. “Girls tend to get picked on if they wear glasses or braces or if they are too skinny or too fat” (Fanning). Over the years, “Boys have picked up on our culture’s ideas of what they are supposed to be. They bully each other about being a ‘wuss’ or not being strong enough” (Fanning).
The underlining symbol was the battle royal itself. “No group fought together for long. Two, three, four fought one, then turned to fight each other, were themselves attacked” (247). It was a scheme to get the African Americans to fight each other, instead of uniting and facing their persecutors. African American’s continued to struggle for many things that only were afforded to the white race.
For example, Claude McKay’s poem states “If we must die, O let us nobly die/So that our precious blood may not be shed in vain” ( 5-7, “If We Must Die”) .Likewise Armiri Baraka writes “Let Black people understand/that they are the lovers and the sons /of warriors and sons/of warriors” The authors are urging their black audience to stand up for themselves. The poems are telling their audience they the shouldn’t settled for the horrid mistreatment and racism that is being forced upon them. They emphasis that fighting back is inevitable for change. Moreover,the action in both poems are clear. There is a war between African
Despite Atticus’s powerful arguments for Tom’s innocence, the all-white jury convicts the black man. The verdict adversely affects the Finches, especially Jem. When Tom is killed trying to escape from prison, Jem’s struggle with injustice comes to its culmination. Humiliated by the trial, Bob Ewell, Mayella’s father, continually threatens Atticus,