Black Like Me Character Analysis
Curiosity Changing
When you imagine a great journalist you think of someone who gives great details when writing a story in a newspaper or magazine. However, in the novel Black Like Me John Howard Griffin gives us his actual journal of what he really went through. Griffin is a white journalist who decided to travel the deep south as a black man. Griffin was curious, depressed, and eventually hopeful.
Griffin wanted to know how it felt to be black in the segregated deep south. “If a white man became a negro in the deep south what adjustments would he have to make?”(1). Griffin was so curious he decided to make a big change in his life. Griffin maintained that he would find a way to change his white skin into black and travel the south to find
When you imagine a great journalist you think of someone who gives great details when writing a story in a newspaper or magazine. However, in the novel Black Like Me John Howard Griffin gives us his actual journal of what he really went through. Griffin is a white journalist who decided to travel the deep south as a black man. Griffin was curious, depressed, and eventually hopeful.
Griffin wanted to know how it felt to be black in the segregated deep south. “If a white man became a negro in the deep south what adjustments would he have to make?”(1). Griffin was so curious he decided to make a big change in his life. Griffin maintained that he would find a way to change his white skin into black and travel the south to find