“Where is the Voice Coming From?”, written by Eudora Welty, came about when the NAACP civil rights activist, Medgar Evers was assassinated in Jackson, Mississippi on June 12,1963. “The Voice” is really an anonymous or unnamed character who poses as a white male from the south in the early 1960’s, who is enraged that the Jim Crow laws have began to die down. Looking at the story through the historical lens, an analysis of the story suggests that “Where's the Voice Coming From?” is really about the assassination of Medgar Evers being an exact outcome of what happens when there is deep rooted racism, specifically in southern states.
The narrator is an extreme racist. I say this because in the story the narrator has thoughts about killing …show more content…
“I was on top of the world myself. For once. I stripped of his light there, where he's laying flat. I says, “Roland?” There was one way left, for me to be ahead of you and stay ahead of you, by Dad, and I just taken it. Now I'm alive and you ain't. We ain't never now, never going to be equals and you know why? One of us is dead.” (Welty 215) This quote is used because it shows that the narrator is proud of his killing and is rubbing it in the victim's face like he can hear him and respond. “Beckwith saw himself, and was seen by many Southerner, as a hero who had committed a laudable, even honorable, act in defense of the Southern way of life. In his Rankin County jail cell, he was thus allowed to have a television and his gun collection; in addition, housewives brought him hot meals, and supporters sent him letters and money. During his trial, at which he clearly thought he would be exonerated, he was flamboyant, confident, and proud. ” (Hargrove 77) The actual killer of Medgar Evers, Byron De La Beckwith, got very special treatment in jail by his “supporters”, he thought very highly of himself, because he got special treatment in jail. He had women bring him hot meals, “supporters” sending him money and letters, he had a television in his jail cell and he could keep his gun collection in jail with …show more content…
All my life I have been stereotyped to being followed in stores, people holding on to their bags as I sit next to them I been through it all. After I tell people I'm asian or Filipino they say “Oh so you must be good at math” or “Do you use chopsticks, and eat noodles?”. I just think this whole “racism” thing is stupid and it irks my soul everytime I hear about it, like why are you treating people of a different race so badly? What have they done to you personally? We are all made up of the same anatomy so I don't think people should be treated differently. The Jim Crow laws were in my opinion dumb because I think people should be able to use the same water
The narrator is an extreme racist. I say this because in the story the narrator has thoughts about killing …show more content…
“I was on top of the world myself. For once. I stripped of his light there, where he's laying flat. I says, “Roland?” There was one way left, for me to be ahead of you and stay ahead of you, by Dad, and I just taken it. Now I'm alive and you ain't. We ain't never now, never going to be equals and you know why? One of us is dead.” (Welty 215) This quote is used because it shows that the narrator is proud of his killing and is rubbing it in the victim's face like he can hear him and respond. “Beckwith saw himself, and was seen by many Southerner, as a hero who had committed a laudable, even honorable, act in defense of the Southern way of life. In his Rankin County jail cell, he was thus allowed to have a television and his gun collection; in addition, housewives brought him hot meals, and supporters sent him letters and money. During his trial, at which he clearly thought he would be exonerated, he was flamboyant, confident, and proud. ” (Hargrove 77) The actual killer of Medgar Evers, Byron De La Beckwith, got very special treatment in jail by his “supporters”, he thought very highly of himself, because he got special treatment in jail. He had women bring him hot meals, “supporters” sending him money and letters, he had a television in his jail cell and he could keep his gun collection in jail with …show more content…
All my life I have been stereotyped to being followed in stores, people holding on to their bags as I sit next to them I been through it all. After I tell people I'm asian or Filipino they say “Oh so you must be good at math” or “Do you use chopsticks, and eat noodles?”. I just think this whole “racism” thing is stupid and it irks my soul everytime I hear about it, like why are you treating people of a different race so badly? What have they done to you personally? We are all made up of the same anatomy so I don't think people should be treated differently. The Jim Crow laws were in my opinion dumb because I think people should be able to use the same water