Why The Sister In Black Works Hardest Analysis

Folklores have been around for centuries. They often have a strong influence on culture in society. Folklores explain the experiences our ancestors lived through. It explains their beliefs, knowledge, attitudes, and culture. Folklores can tell many stories. It can explain things such as natural occurrences, race, love and so on. It explains humanness and the reasons for certain attitudes and occurrences. African American folktales evolved from subjugated Africans in the 18th and 19th century. Slaveowners forced their cultures, believes, and languages onto African slaves. But they came up with folktales to preserve some of their own cultures and believes. And to tell stories of enslaved days.
Most folktales are filled with hidden messages and offer moral guidance. For example, “Why the Sister In Black Works Hardest” in this story it illustrates how black women are below all others even the black men. In the story, it explains that the reason the woman works harder than any other. The reason explains in the story was “Dat’s de reason de sister in black works harder than anybody else in de world. De white man tells de nigger to work and he takes and tells his wife” (Hurston 4). This story portrays the …show more content…
It’s not something that is new. Or something that black women are afraid of its something that they have seen from their grandmothers, aunties, and mothers. “So she runs and grabbed a-hold of de box and opened it up and it was full of hard work.“Dat's de reason de sister in black works harder than anybody else in de world. De white mantells de nigger to work and he takes and tells his wife” (Hurston 4). This statement exemplifies the way the black women worked hard just so the white women, and her family could reap the benefits. This folktale illustrates the hardworking black