The story is about how it was to live in Mississippi during the 1950’s. The main character Hiram Hillburn lived with his grandparents, he was always a spoiled kid and grew up with what he wanted. He liked the spoiling and their big house. “Gramma and Grandpa lived in a big white two-story house... Their house looks like a smaller version of the White House in Washington, D.C., without so many pillars in front and not nearly so tall and wide” (Crowe, 2002, pp. 9-10). His grandmother always had something baking. If he would get near, she would always find something fittingly sweet for him. This gives you an image of how well they lived in Mississippi and how luxurious they were. Black people didn’t have that type of living in Mississippi. A
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Grandpa explains “God made Negroes to work the land. They don’t feel the heat like we do; they can work all day long in the most hellish weather.” (Crow, 2002, p.8). He told that to Hiram when he was little, that was his view on African Americans. R.C. Rydell is a careless people who despises African Americans and like to be destructive and hateful. R.C. cuts a fish open and stuffs its guts down Emmett Till’s throat because he asked Hiram for food. (Crow, 2002, pp. 90-93). At last, there is Emmet Till. he lived in Chicago and was visiting relatives from Mississippi. At first Emmett is rescued from drowning by Hiram (Crow, 2002, pp. 61-63). After the rescue Hiram and Emmett become friends. Later he was kidnapped and murdered, then they tied his body down with a cotton-gin fan with barbed wire, into the river. (Crow, 2002, pp. …show more content…
In 1955 black people in the South weren’t treated as equal as whites. Whites would use the Jim Crow Laws against the blacks. It kept things separate but not equal. In the South people thought it was wrong for a black person to like a white person. When a black man would flirt, they would beat the black man. Emmett Till was murdered in the South because it was said he was whistling to a white woman. He was tortured in a barn and thrown into the river. He was raised in Chicago and wasn’t used to being treated differently from whites. In the end, it’s important because it was never proven whether Emmet Till was the one who flirted. Second, even if he was guilty of the accusations, he does not deserve to be tortured and
Grandpa explains “God made Negroes to work the land. They don’t feel the heat like we do; they can work all day long in the most hellish weather.” (Crow, 2002, p.8). He told that to Hiram when he was little, that was his view on African Americans. R.C. Rydell is a careless people who despises African Americans and like to be destructive and hateful. R.C. cuts a fish open and stuffs its guts down Emmett Till’s throat because he asked Hiram for food. (Crow, 2002, pp. 90-93). At last, there is Emmet Till. he lived in Chicago and was visiting relatives from Mississippi. At first Emmett is rescued from drowning by Hiram (Crow, 2002, pp. 61-63). After the rescue Hiram and Emmett become friends. Later he was kidnapped and murdered, then they tied his body down with a cotton-gin fan with barbed wire, into the river. (Crow, 2002, pp. …show more content…
In 1955 black people in the South weren’t treated as equal as whites. Whites would use the Jim Crow Laws against the blacks. It kept things separate but not equal. In the South people thought it was wrong for a black person to like a white person. When a black man would flirt, they would beat the black man. Emmett Till was murdered in the South because it was said he was whistling to a white woman. He was tortured in a barn and thrown into the river. He was raised in Chicago and wasn’t used to being treated differently from whites. In the end, it’s important because it was never proven whether Emmet Till was the one who flirted. Second, even if he was guilty of the accusations, he does not deserve to be tortured and