Essay Comparing Gilded Six-Bits And Blood-Burning Moon

In the stories “The Gilded Six-Bits” and “Blood-Burning Moon” both stories share a common theme throughout. “The Gilded Six-Bits” and “Blood-Burning Moon” both address post-Civil War race relations in America. “The Gilded Six-Bits” and “Blood-Burning Moon” helps us grasp an understanding on how the times changes after the Civil War, and how other races viewed each other. The Gilded Six-Bits and Blood-Burning Moon both have differences throughout the passage that shapes an understanding of the relationship whites and blacks had with one another.

The Gilded Six-Bits and Blood-Burning Moon both share the theme of post- Civil War race relation in America. Throughout the stories the reader can tell how particular theme separates from one another. In the story Blood-Burning Moon we …show more content…
In the beginning of the story the readers are introduced to the Negro settlement. “ There was something happy about the place. The front yard was parted in the middle by a sidewalk from gate to doorstep, a sidewalk edged on either side by quart bottles driven neck down to the ground on a slant. A mess of homey flowers planted without a plan but blooming cheerily from their helter-skelter places. The fence and house were whitewashed” (The Gilded Six-Bits 594). The negro settlement is being described as a really nice place somewhat middle class. The observed truth is they are still being segregated from other colored people. At the end of the story we hear get a deeper understanding of how good the colors seems to have it in the Gilded Six-Bits. “ Wisht I could be like these darkies. Laughin’ all the time. Nothin’ worries ‘em”( The Gilded Six-Bits 602). It seems as though after the Civil War race relations has become better with the blacks and the whites. Some White believe they wish they could have the same happiness as black