The girls and people in general are mean to other people because of some reasons in which are beneficial to themselves. The powhitetrash children did so because they knew that Momma wouldn’t be able to lash out on them. At this time, there were no rules that said black people had to be treated as equal and kindly. People may be cruel to one another because they find something funny or strange about them, like having a “...big frame…” (Angelou 360), “...skin a dark reddish brown…” (Collier 94), their mouth being “...pooched out…” (Collier 94), or even if they hum a lot of the time. Children are cruel to innocent adults because they want to feel superior to them. They know that the adults won’t hurt or consequence them because they most-likely
