Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Social levels 

In the story "Kaffir Boy" something happens that i have had felt before. in the story it is about a boy who lives in Africa and the school he goes to is for black and the kids who has less money and he explains how people make him feel about going there and that the white school is better because they have more money . well in the story he was really giving examples how he is nothing compared to this white people. in the beginning he realize how they are better the schools what they wear , how they get bused to school they have a pool cross guard they live in big house all that how they doesn't  have to go mow people lawns rake leaves and water flowers and be called names. so through the story he just like they are better than me him by giving him easy to read books because his mind is smaller and incapable of reading all this till his he start second guessing it .the are they better than us because they have this and i do not? the passage wasn't big enough for me to find out if the boy ever realize just because they have material things doesn't mean they are better than you. and i have learned that already. i was told before that i wasn't going to be nothing because i went to a black school and the education wasn't good and it was violence and gang activity i believed it for a second then as soon as i learned that just because a person was giving this doesn't mean he is going to have it that easy later in life because it was giving to them. the person wont know what hard work is because something was giving to them while because i didn't have it and i was always working for it then i will know what it is to do hard work. but in this story is also shows social level just like the last story. it showed what social level the blacks was on compared to the whites and how they blacks look at the white as they are lucky and i wish i was them and how the whites looked at a lower social level shocked in surprised they lived like this. do you think social levels matter on how we view people before we even get to know them ?

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