Going To Meet The Man Analysis

Going to meet the man by James Baldwin and sweat by Zora Neale Hurston, both stories have an underlying theme of racial discrimination, power and control. Both authors are black writers who uses their story to describe the history of racial conflict and oppression of black people. In the story going to meet the man is narrated through a first person view, as an innocent young child, whose mind has being filled with hatred and racism by the society. The character in both stories uses religion as a sense of freedom, for instance Delia the main character in sweat looks to religion for guidance and support, as she endures many challenges, caused by her abusive and unfaithful husband. In going to meet the man, the nigger in jailed could not stop …show more content…
Jesse once an innocent child even had a black friend when he was 8yrs old called Otis, but was influenced by his father racist beliefs. His father made Jesse belief that black is bad and took Jesse to his first picnic, which turns out to be lynching of a black man. Jesse wanted to be accepted by his father which led him to be open in believing anything his father told him. Going to meet the man contains sexual violence, this gives a direct comparison between Jesse an innocent 8yrs old boy, and a racist impotent white sheriff who found himself sexual arousal in brutalizing black men. At the picnic which Jesse taught was an innocent gathering turnout to be lynching, where Jesse witness an accused black man of raping a white women being castrated, mutilated and burned alive. From then Jesse love for black people could change forever, even the taught of his black childhood friend Otis makes him sick. Upon witnessing the lynching of black men, Jesse sexual desire arose and his impotence is gone, as he tell his wife he is going to have sex with her like a black …show more content…
The story is about a young black man who is ashamed of his own racial identity. Confused and tormented about his grandfather last word of advice, the dying grandfather advices to him was to make the white men feel powerful by agreeing to their wishes. The author describes blindness in the story as a way of people avoiding seeing and facing the truth because people have the ability to form their own perception and control what they don’t want to see. The battle royal symbolizes the struggle for equality in black society. The white men made the boys blind folded as a way to exhibit their hatred towards the boys. Blindfolded the boys could randomly hit one another by following the instruction of the white authority. Though the boys were blindfolded, the white men were the oneS actually blind in the story, because they failed to see the black boys’ talent because their mind is occupied with