The Outsiders Challenge People move from place to place in different occasions. They might move for different reasons; those could be migration, looking for a new life style and career, in old times, slavery, but in these reasons, they might face several difficulties in a new surrounding they get involved in. “Champion of the World”, written by Maya Angelou, an African American woman, and it is about her community gathered to listen to a boxing match that was held in the late 1930s between Joe Louis, African American fighter, and a white opponent. Also, “Fish Cheeks”, written by Amy Tan, a Chinese American woman, and it is about her crush Robert, minister’s son, and his family getting invited to Tan’s house for a Christmas Eve dinner.
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Due to the fact that black people were treated like slaves, animals, and lower beings, the desire to prove they were also human beings was implemented in them. During the boxing match between Louis and his white contender, the black community was gathered together into a store to listen to the match on a radio; there were women holding their babies, and people sitting in any open space they got and crowding the store. This was all to hear and support Louis, the one who is representing African Americans, the one whom they have put their hope in, for victory. After a while, the commentator commented that Louis was held against the ropes and that it seemed like he was going down; they all groaned. They felt their race was falling, going back to slavery and being treated terribly the same old way. Things were not the way they were going. Louis won. Soon after they taught he was losing, he rose again, “… It’s a left jab to the body and another left to the head…” (Angelou, 106), the commentator exciting everyone in that store. As Angelou noted, “A Black boy. Some mother’s son.” (Angelou, 107) proved that black peoples are not lesser, weaker, and actually, they could be …show more content…
As a Chinese American teenager born California, Tan was living in two different cultures: her family’s and white American’s. She was assimilated to be like American’s, so when Robert and his family came, she wanted her family to act like American’s. However, her family were being themselves. Her relatives were murmuring with happiness while Tan’s mother brought out a steamed fish; they were licking their chopsticks. Tan did not like all of this happening; her desire was to be the same race as Robert or live the same way he lived. She was rejecting her own identity. Because of this, she felt really ashamed in her relatives and her family; She was humiliated by them; She mentioned, “[she] wanted to disappear” (Tan, 111). The dinner night created a moment of cultural collision in her life; the majority culture was pushing aside her true identity; it was forcing a feeling that she is less, and that she needs a new
Due to the fact that black people were treated like slaves, animals, and lower beings, the desire to prove they were also human beings was implemented in them. During the boxing match between Louis and his white contender, the black community was gathered together into a store to listen to the match on a radio; there were women holding their babies, and people sitting in any open space they got and crowding the store. This was all to hear and support Louis, the one who is representing African Americans, the one whom they have put their hope in, for victory. After a while, the commentator commented that Louis was held against the ropes and that it seemed like he was going down; they all groaned. They felt their race was falling, going back to slavery and being treated terribly the same old way. Things were not the way they were going. Louis won. Soon after they taught he was losing, he rose again, “… It’s a left jab to the body and another left to the head…” (Angelou, 106), the commentator exciting everyone in that store. As Angelou noted, “A Black boy. Some mother’s son.” (Angelou, 107) proved that black peoples are not lesser, weaker, and actually, they could be …show more content…
As a Chinese American teenager born California, Tan was living in two different cultures: her family’s and white American’s. She was assimilated to be like American’s, so when Robert and his family came, she wanted her family to act like American’s. However, her family were being themselves. Her relatives were murmuring with happiness while Tan’s mother brought out a steamed fish; they were licking their chopsticks. Tan did not like all of this happening; her desire was to be the same race as Robert or live the same way he lived. She was rejecting her own identity. Because of this, she felt really ashamed in her relatives and her family; She was humiliated by them; She mentioned, “[she] wanted to disappear” (Tan, 111). The dinner night created a moment of cultural collision in her life; the majority culture was pushing aside her true identity; it was forcing a feeling that she is less, and that she needs a new