Racism In Girl In Landscape

Girl in landscape is about many things however one of the areas that it seems to touch on specifically are concepts of racism and prejudice. It does this by using it’s abnormal setting to create situation where it personifies these issues through the characters it creates. with this is promotes an ideal of individualism.
The term racism refers to the assertion that there is a superior and inferior group based on race. In this case the book does not say exactly say much about the human characters in the book so the only group that can be attributed as a different race is the arch-builders. During the book the Arch-builders are very mysterious and some of the townspeople accept them, while some of them despise them or fear them. During the book there is a conflict between Efram Nugent and Pella’s father clement who have differing opinions on how the Arch builders should be treated. Efram thinks that the Arch-builders should not be allowed in town while clement is intrigued by them and thinks they could teach the human settlers something. …show more content…
is very similar to a particular person in history who was in a position of power during the civil war the president of the confederate states, Jefferson davis. Davis at one point said this about slaves, “you cannot transform the negro into anything one-tenth as useful or as good as what slavery enables them to be”Gunderman 855. To Jefferson Davis slaves in the united states were unable to be nothing more that people to be controlled. The racism that Jefferson Davis exhibits comes from a prejudiced concept that all African Americans would be incapable of gaining any useful autonomy. This view of others is a prejudice which is one of the basis’s in order for racism to develop the book uses distinctions by how efram talks display this concept instead of the racism just being a shallow archetype efram shows legitimate beliefs that have created a negative prejudice about the