Children aren’t born to see a difference in colour, they are born to see humans for who they are. As we grow older, society embodies certain values and opinions within us, some right, some very wrong. John Howard Griffin was born with a skin colour deemed luckier than that of many others, he was born white. Even though society conditioned him and others into senselessly discriminating based solely on race, Griffin believed otherwise. In John Howard Griffin’s novel, Black Like Me, Griffin’s curious nature takes him on a journey in hopes of bridging racial gaps, and along the way, the challenges and suffering that he must overcome to succeed in his goals.
Griffin is a journalist who is curious about social inequality and wants to uncover and …show more content…
Now that he has transformed, he realizes that he is not the old Griffin and he feels devastated and invisible. “I had tampered with the mystery of existence and had lost the sense of my own being. This is what devastated me that Griffin had become invisible.”(). White people don’t treat him kindly, and respect is a luxury that Negroes don’t possess. Although being devastated, he further dwells into regions that are known to be very dangerous for Negroes, in order to fully understand the discrimination and suffering that is taking place. “This is how the white men can say, they lived like dogs”.(69)The white people treated him like dogs, with no respect. The work Negroes had to do was immense, in order to change the inequalities within society. This transformation brings him a lot of hatred but he is able to cope with how Negroes were being treated at that …show more content…
Griffin’s curiosity leads him to transform himself as a black person to see how it feels to be in a Negro’s shoes. After becoming a Negro, he faced tremendous hardships, which allowed him to clearly see the conditions that Negroes were living in. During his continuous transformation from white to black, he realized that bridging the gaps of inequality would take a paramount amount of change and commitment on both parts. He also came to the bitter realization that no matter how close the gap, racial discrimination would never entirely be obsolete. History repeats itself, and even today, we see that discrimination and hate isn’t inclusive to races, it is prevalent within social classes, religious and cultural sects, amongst other things. It’s human nature to want to feel superior, and we can see that systematic discrimination will always be prevalent, like today with Muslims having become the new
Griffin is a journalist who is curious about social inequality and wants to uncover and …show more content…
Now that he has transformed, he realizes that he is not the old Griffin and he feels devastated and invisible. “I had tampered with the mystery of existence and had lost the sense of my own being. This is what devastated me that Griffin had become invisible.”(). White people don’t treat him kindly, and respect is a luxury that Negroes don’t possess. Although being devastated, he further dwells into regions that are known to be very dangerous for Negroes, in order to fully understand the discrimination and suffering that is taking place. “This is how the white men can say, they lived like dogs”.(69)The white people treated him like dogs, with no respect. The work Negroes had to do was immense, in order to change the inequalities within society. This transformation brings him a lot of hatred but he is able to cope with how Negroes were being treated at that …show more content…
Griffin’s curiosity leads him to transform himself as a black person to see how it feels to be in a Negro’s shoes. After becoming a Negro, he faced tremendous hardships, which allowed him to clearly see the conditions that Negroes were living in. During his continuous transformation from white to black, he realized that bridging the gaps of inequality would take a paramount amount of change and commitment on both parts. He also came to the bitter realization that no matter how close the gap, racial discrimination would never entirely be obsolete. History repeats itself, and even today, we see that discrimination and hate isn’t inclusive to races, it is prevalent within social classes, religious and cultural sects, amongst other things. It’s human nature to want to feel superior, and we can see that systematic discrimination will always be prevalent, like today with Muslims having become the new