Racism In Bambara's 'Gorilla, My Love'

Bambara wrote the story of "Gorilla, My Love," and the main character is Hazel, in this story she has bought a movie ticket to see the movie of, "Gorilla, My Love." But, instead of seeing that movie, she sat down with her two brothers and a movie they hadn’t suspected to play, started playing. So, after a couple of minutes she got up and went to the manager for a refund. The manager said that he wouldn't give it to her, so with her anger, of not getting her money back, she went over to the candy machine and burned it. I think that Bambara's attitude toward race in "Gorilla, My Love," is that it is wrong and that many people were racist, in so many situations. This story's purpose is to teach adults that they should say what they mean and mean what they say. In "Gorilla, My Love," Bambara thought that, black people didn't get the same privilege's/rights as other people, they weren't viewed as trusted, and that everyone should treat them as equal. This story tried to convey that black people didn't get the same privileges/rights as white people. Some evidence of this is, when Hazel asked for a refund, the manager wouldn't give it to her and this could have been because she wasn't white, and …show more content…
One example, is when the manager didn't give Hazel her money back, the manager might have not trusted the African American child because maybe she never actually paid to go to the movie "Gorilla, My Love." In his eyes she could have been trying to get money from the manager. Or, maybe the manager thought the kid knew she went to the wrong movie, and wanted to get extra money for a new movie. He probably thought that it was just a child, and it didn't matter what he did, so he thought that he wouldn't have to listen to what Hazel's had to say, because there wasn't a parent there, with her. A simple solution for this could be to treat other people how you would want to be