Santa Monica Pier

When entering the military young men are often looking for themselves; unsure and confused. While in the military young men learn discipline and integrity, this help figure out their manhood. When they leave the military they are able to apply their teachings to real life situations. In the novel Devil in the Blue Dress by Walter Mosley, Ezekiel Easy Rawlins does just that. Easy enlisted for the military to go fight in World War II hoping to find who he is and what he wants. After the war his…

Easy Rawlings the main character in Devil in A Blue Dress, is an African American man who has recently returned from serving in World War II. World War II is something of importance to this novel and its main character. Easy was enlisted in the military and served in the war for five years. Easy reacts to some of the situations he gets put in differently because of his participation in the war. Easy also acts differently around white men, because of his participation in the war. Easy never acts…

Dancing Fool in School In the past I was an extremely bizarre schoolboy and performed abnormal actions to acquire interest from others at my elementary school like sporting a reddish helmet. Occasionally my muscle twitches caught the awareness of others. Young’uns approached me and questioned, “Why do you jerk your arms and feet like that?” I couldn’t expound it to them because I didn’t fucking comprehend it myself. Therapist Dan: “Do you recall the name of your medication by chance?” Me: “No,…