Coming Of Age In Mississippi Thesis

Imagine being a young slave who only wants nothing but freedom. The book, Coming of Age in Mississippi, written by Anne Moody, an author and a slave, who focuses on one of the most controversial topic in 1860 which is slavery. In this book, Moody talked about a questionable case which some Negroes have a voice to speak up, though, they don’t use it. In Coming of Age in Mississippi, Moody carried her own autobiography with her phenomenal characteristics such as being a caring person, who values her pride being colored, and shows heroic action towards the black community. Caring is an act of displaying kindness towards other people. In this book, Moody was facing racial prejudice on a daily basis. While racial discrimination is less frequent today, it still exists; It was even more frequent during the times where Moody was living in the rural part of Mississippi. Moody presents the different stereotypes he had faced as a young African American female living in a racially tense city. She was living in the Jim Crow Era, in which we have covered in class. According to Professor Nelson, Jim Crow Laws were the Southern response to radical reconstruction. White supremacy …show more content…
However, these are just the few reasons she became mentally strong. For instance, Moody attempts to appeal to the reader’s emotion is when she stated, “It longer seemed important to prove anything. I had found something outside myself that gave meaning to my life.” (Moody) With these words, she is one of the African American who is strong and is willing to fight for her rights. In this story, the murder of Emmett Till was the major incident that has struck to the readers. Emmett Till was a young black man who was murdered for whistling to a young white woman. He was killed for disrespecting a white person, and the Negroes reaction made Moody angier because they acted as if it was