A Comparison of Violence in Living Jim Crow, Incident, and Blood burnin

fury in hold Jim Crow, Incident, and Blood destroy moon Violence seems to be quite a common topic in discolour American literature of the first decades of the 20th century. One major causality for this is probably that it was important for black authors not to be quiet somewhat the injustices being done to them. The violence described in the texts is not scarcely of the physical kind, nevertheless also psychological the constant harassment and terrorising. The ever-present violence had such an effect on the black that they just could not fight back to stop the injustices. Richard Wright describes in his autobiography The Ethics of Living Jim Crow An Autobiographical Sketch the atmosphere at his first job, where his fellow naturalizeers would not teach him anything, just because he was black This is a white mans work around here, and you better watch yourself (291). From that moment on, he never genuinely felt at ease going to work. This kind of feeling of disquietude is also found in Countee Cullens Incident. It shows clearly how children atomic number 18 not in reality aware of the differences adults believe to exist between different races until being told that in that location is a difference. The poesy seems to be a product of personal experiences as a child, when another child pokes out his tongue and calls the speaker of the poem nigger during a stay in Baltimore, and it pictures the human tendency to hold back no further than the colour of the skin. This is probably an event that stayed in the childs judicial decision all his life, hence the final lines of the poem I saw the hearty of Baltimore / From May until December / Of all the things that happened there / Thats all that I mobilize (384). In his autobiography Wright also describes the childhood fi... ... habits free rein. Reading pitch-dark Voices really made me think of how I act and think when it comes to racial issues and even though I know that all human beings are equal , this kind of reminder is necessary - for all of us. Bibliography From the anthology Black voices Jean Toomer Blood burning moon Richard Wright The Ethics of Living Jim Crow An Autobiographical Sketch Dudley Randall The Idiot Countee Cullen Incident Internet resources Countee Cullen. The Academy of American Poets. March 2001 <http//www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=56> Jean Toomer. Heath Online Instructors Guide. March 2001 <http//www.georgetown.edu/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/toomer.html> 1 Gutta cavat lapidem non vi sed saepe cadendo Latin for The drop carves the stone, not by force but by constant dripping.