Racism In Pudd Nhead Wilson

Racism: Small Acts with Huge Impacts
Crash! Bang! Whoosh! The glass bottles screamed as they are hurled at the wall. Followed by sobbing that could be heard from inside the ratty ran-down looking home, tucked in the corner of the street, forgotten and left behind by the rest of the world. Inside a woman sat in a heap on the floor, sobbing and screaming with pain at the world and its dark words that cause this. That stood by when those hateful words were said. That drove the nails to her son's coffin when he was down. That cause her to lose her only child that was all the good she had in this cruel world. That continue to do this to people like her and her son just because the color of their skin regardless of the fact that they had been nothing but …show more content…
In Pudd'nhead Wilson many of the characters have racial bias like Tom, a main character that was raised white, but later found out that he was Roxy’s son.This cause him to feel inferior to the other white townspeople and this feeling later lead him to kill the judge. Another character that was a prey to racism would be Roxy because she felt threaten when Percy Driscoll threaten to sell the other slaves down the river so in her stress moment she switch the babies cause the two babies to be condemned to two totally different lives. If Percy Driscoll had been taught about racism then he wouldn’t of scared Roxy into switching the children's and causing the story to end that way. Pudd'nhead Wilson is a valuable book to read in the fact that the characters show the reader how ridiculous racism is and how what type of traits a person have can’t be determined by first glance. These types of books are important to read because it connect the reader to the problem and presents the effect of the issue on fictional characters and at the same time leaving seeds of the lessons to bloom that later help the reader in