Praying for Sheetrock versus Meet You in Hell When looking back on one’s own histories, often times one must use novels or books by another to further infer and understand such periods of history long since passed. Books, such as Meet You in Hell by Les Standiford and Praying for Sheetrock by Melissa Fay Greene are insightful and historically sound pieces of literature that can further a person’s ability to understand and compare such dissociated and yet rather correlated writings by two distinct but different and unique individuals.
When one looks to understand Meet You in Hell, specifically, it is important to know that the premise of this story is how Andrew Carnegie and Henry Frick locked out their workers because the workers were demanding …show more content…
This story delves deeper into the meaning and emphasis on Greene’s portrayal of, “dirt poor rural black South with an emphasis on the point of view of those who actually lived it” (Williams). The story is about how during “the 1970s and 80s, civil rights finally came to McIntosh County, Georgia” (Holt). As the story continues on a man named Thomas Poppell, “the High Sheriff, was Darien’s point man, the role model for racial decorum” and “gave rise to the living legend of McIntosh County as a place without race problems” (pg. 80, Praying for Sheetrock). Although this book is a clear historical narrative, it is really more than that. This book by Melissa Fay Greene has “the makings of a classic in literature” (Holt). In the book one character, Thurnell Alston, “becomes McIntosh County’s first freely chosen black commissioner in a century” (Holt). Greene’s portrayal of this quaint little town is truly done justly with the highest honor and with the utmost respect of those she portrays within her book. With every page not only does the reader continue to be intertwined with the story taking place but, realism has been interlaced as well because of all of the subtle and not so subtle actualities that Greene lets shine though her work with ease. Praying for Sheetrock relates to topics learned during such a class period as our own though topics such as racial relations of blacks versus whites, the Civil …show more content…
When you look at the overall descriptions, they do sound like complete opposites but delve deeper and you can see a unique likeness between both stories. In Meet You in Hell the strike occurs because the workers feel that they do not have proper benefits, payment, opportunities, and job security through unions. In Praying for Sheetrock, an outpour of want happens daily because African Americans continued to want equality with those of white skin. Both the African Americans from Praying for Sheetrock and the striking workers in Meet You in Hell wanted what they knew was rightfully theirs. Praying for Sheetrock and Meet You in Hell both, despite being about different time periods and races of people, show those both taking a stand for what they believed in. Both stories have one simple and yet so deep a premise that it can be hard to even grasp. They both revolve around the entire premise of power. The ower not only to have what you want, do what you want, and live however you want, but the power to fight for ones rights, freedoms, and beliefs. The African Americans in Praying for Sheetrock were not fighting for workers’ rights but they were fighting for their long deserved Civil Rights
When one looks to understand Meet You in Hell, specifically, it is important to know that the premise of this story is how Andrew Carnegie and Henry Frick locked out their workers because the workers were demanding …show more content…
This story delves deeper into the meaning and emphasis on Greene’s portrayal of, “dirt poor rural black South with an emphasis on the point of view of those who actually lived it” (Williams). The story is about how during “the 1970s and 80s, civil rights finally came to McIntosh County, Georgia” (Holt). As the story continues on a man named Thomas Poppell, “the High Sheriff, was Darien’s point man, the role model for racial decorum” and “gave rise to the living legend of McIntosh County as a place without race problems” (pg. 80, Praying for Sheetrock). Although this book is a clear historical narrative, it is really more than that. This book by Melissa Fay Greene has “the makings of a classic in literature” (Holt). In the book one character, Thurnell Alston, “becomes McIntosh County’s first freely chosen black commissioner in a century” (Holt). Greene’s portrayal of this quaint little town is truly done justly with the highest honor and with the utmost respect of those she portrays within her book. With every page not only does the reader continue to be intertwined with the story taking place but, realism has been interlaced as well because of all of the subtle and not so subtle actualities that Greene lets shine though her work with ease. Praying for Sheetrock relates to topics learned during such a class period as our own though topics such as racial relations of blacks versus whites, the Civil …show more content…
When you look at the overall descriptions, they do sound like complete opposites but delve deeper and you can see a unique likeness between both stories. In Meet You in Hell the strike occurs because the workers feel that they do not have proper benefits, payment, opportunities, and job security through unions. In Praying for Sheetrock, an outpour of want happens daily because African Americans continued to want equality with those of white skin. Both the African Americans from Praying for Sheetrock and the striking workers in Meet You in Hell wanted what they knew was rightfully theirs. Praying for Sheetrock and Meet You in Hell both, despite being about different time periods and races of people, show those both taking a stand for what they believed in. Both stories have one simple and yet so deep a premise that it can be hard to even grasp. They both revolve around the entire premise of power. The ower not only to have what you want, do what you want, and live however you want, but the power to fight for ones rights, freedoms, and beliefs. The African Americans in Praying for Sheetrock were not fighting for workers’ rights but they were fighting for their long deserved Civil Rights