Analysis of where is the voice coming from

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The best that newspaper could do for me was offer a five-hundred-dollar reward for finding out who I am. But by the time I was moving around uptown, it was hotter still. I was already tired of seeing a hundred cops getting us white people nowheres.

Back at the beginning, I stood on the corner and I watched them new babyface cops loading nothing but nigger children into the paddy wagon and they come marching out of a little parade and into the paddy wagon singing.

Pop bottles too, they can come flying whenever they want to. Hundreds, all to smash, like Birmingham. Oh, they may find me. But I grew up in the country. May try to railroad me into the electric chair, and what that amounts to is something hotter than yesterday and today put together.

Starts to telling the teachers and the preachers and the judges of our so-called courts how far they can go? Not yet! Once, I run away from my home. And there was a ad for me, come to be printed in our county weekly. My mother paid for it.

It was from her. So I reach me down my old guitar off the nail in the wall. And sing a-down, down, down, down. This sets the tone of the story as well as it displays his motives for his later acts of racist atrocity and hatred. On multiple occasions, the unnamed narrator uses highly offensive language towards black people, conveying anger, ignorance, and hatred, being the motives for the murder.

The narrator is often portrayed as envious of Roland Summers as a result of his nicer property. He frequently references his paved street and driveway and his nice lawn, demonstrating that the narrator is most likely poor, angry that a black man has more than him.

He replaces the gun in his hand with a guitar from his past, as if he is preparing for his end. He seems content with himself, however, as he was able to accomplish what he set out to do.

Frank Cruz and Dan'Nae Palmer The initial lines characterize the narrator as a racist white male most likely living the southern region of the United States. This sets the tone and also displays the narrator's views and ideas that influence his later actions. The narrator finds himself consistently using highly offensive and derogatory language towards black people in his area, displaying openly his hatred of black people.

This hatred is what fueled him to murder Roland because of his jealousy. Christian Science Perspective. A Christian Science perspective: Learning to carefully watch our thinking. September 15, By Hank Teller. You've read of free articles. Subscribe to continue. Mark Sappenfield. Our work isn't possible without your support.

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