The fight for freedom and rights has become noticeably selfish because mankind is only fighting for their kind. In “Am i Blue” by Alice Walker, a horse named Blue is used for the neighborhoods benefit but gets nothing in return. Walker compares how we look to animals to how whites used to look to blacks. Humans developed a selfishness in the world the lived in without a care to what the consequences were. Walker portrays a feeling of hopelessness with the way of life was in the past and how slaves were treated. Although mankind has overcome that overtime there is still a corruption in society. The way walker describes the way Blue is treated is a reflection to how slaves were treated, more like animals than people. No living thing, human or
