My Literary Analysis On The Black Girl - 919 Words

The reason I chose this piece to do my literary analysis on was because something I found very unique and interesting was the fact that we, the readers, know that one girl is one race, and the other girl is a different race, but we never find out which is which. The way this story was written, makes either one seem to belong to either race, so there is no need to stereotype, because if one girl does something that seems stereotypical of one race, the other girl does something even more so. The way that the author was able to keep that up so well and not give away who was which race, amazes and intrigues me, although within their friendship, it doesn’t really make a difference. I think that this proves that stereotypes of people are not true to the race/culture/religion etc. but the individual person. The biggest proof of this is the fact that they both grew up in the same home, raised by the same person/people, with not a certain ethnic influence, yet they each ended up a cert ain way. When they get older is when this becomes most evident, Twyla becomes a waitress and Roberta is presumably an escort, from the way she is described. Roberta’s mother doesn’t want to be friends with Twyla’s mother, so that may be a tell of the races, but it is still pretty vague. When Twyla and Roberta meet later on in the story, Roberta reminds Twyla that she â€Å"kicked a poor old black lady when she was down on the ground† (morrison) referring to Maggie. The interesting part about thisShow MoreRelatedAn Unknown Girl Analysis1379 Words   |  6 PagesAfrica. (Narrative Article, Literary  Analysis.) 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