Everyone is united for one reason or the other, yet people still manage to alienate other human beings due to the color of their skin, physical appearances or the religion they do or don’t believe in. Citizens being ethnically diverse is an excuse to make others feel left out or treated inadequately in society. Grant was an African-American man who got a decent education but was still treated less than the average white man, it also did not help that he did not think of religion to be as important as the rest.
The start of Grant being involved into the society is because what happened to a young African-American man named Jefferson, he was accused of first degree murder and guilty of robbery. Jefferson was sentenced to death by electrocution, but they had sentenced a “hog” to death. They referred to Jefferson as a hog because of the poor education he had received and lack of intelligence. Grant was supposed to transform this so-called hog into a man in a matter of six months, but things got difficult since he was very independent and wanted to be in a world of only him and his girlfriend. …show more content…
Mostly everyone in the town was very religious, Grant was too at a point in his life, after Grant came back from college he saw no point in going to church that cause a split in the little family he had. He lost his faith and only believed God makes people care, kid plays, folks sing, brings loved ones together and makes food grow out the ground. In society nowadays, it is understandable to have a different type of beliefs or just not to believe at all, but in the past it was not ordinary since the community was already
The start of Grant being involved into the society is because what happened to a young African-American man named Jefferson, he was accused of first degree murder and guilty of robbery. Jefferson was sentenced to death by electrocution, but they had sentenced a “hog” to death. They referred to Jefferson as a hog because of the poor education he had received and lack of intelligence. Grant was supposed to transform this so-called hog into a man in a matter of six months, but things got difficult since he was very independent and wanted to be in a world of only him and his girlfriend. …show more content…
Mostly everyone in the town was very religious, Grant was too at a point in his life, after Grant came back from college he saw no point in going to church that cause a split in the little family he had. He lost his faith and only believed God makes people care, kid plays, folks sing, brings loved ones together and makes food grow out the ground. In society nowadays, it is understandable to have a different type of beliefs or just not to believe at all, but in the past it was not ordinary since the community was already