Meg Gegler
Lippman
9/28/10
Themes
Racism- For obvious reasons, the idea of black and white are two different concepts mentioned throughout the book; almost like two different worlds. At the beginning when the protagonist speaks at his high school, to chapter 5, African-Americans are not treated as people. (Page 102, quote [Damn what he wants…])
Acceptance- The protagonist struggles as a black man to accept himself in society and feels like most things that he does are betrayal or that anything he does is not right; therefore he fears being expelled from the school. He sees himself as invisible to everyone; therefore others are not willing to see him for who and what he is. Acceptance relates into the other main theme of invisibly; where the protagonist struggles to be seen by others and most importantly, himself.
Nice mention of the barrier between races. And I liked how you talked about how the narrator struggles to accept himself as a black man in society.
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