What I hoped to accomplish in my drawing of the front cover of the short story, "Going to meet the Man" by James Baldwin, was to give the reader a clear understanding of what the major theme of the book may be and how this theme relates to the title of the book. The theme that I focused on was how racism is something that is learned, not inherited or natural. My drawing is of one of Jesse's memories from his childhood that explains how he became a product of racism. In this memory, Jesse's parents take him to the lynching of an African American man who was accused of shoving a white woman. At this time Jesse was still a child, and from his point of view, what he saw was how happy all of his neighbors were and how happy and excited his own parents
