Discrimination In Adulthood, And Death Of A Salesman

Discrimination is one of the worst things mankind practice. Discrimination is the practice of unfairly treating a person or group of people differently from other groups of people. Stories, plays, and poems all exploit discrimination is some kind of way. Discrimination can be seen in “Sonny’s Blues”, “Adulthood”, and “Death of a Salesman”. Discrimination is fairly touched in “Sonny’s Blues”. Racism is the primary reason for discrimination in the text. The fact that the blacks were present primarily throughout the projects shows how the segregated the city of Harlem was. Also, in the story the narrator’s uncle was killed by drunk white men in a truck. “They was all drunk,” the mother told the narrator, “and when they seen your father’s brother they let out a great whoop and holler and they aimed the car straight at him” (Baldwin 107). The quote is a partial description of what happened, and why the uncle was killed. The quote from the mother is a warning to the narrator that a similar event could possibly happen to his brother Sonny, which shows that racism
Giovanni states, “I was meaningless and I wondered if life would give me a chance to mean” (Giovanni 1054). This quote demonstrates how she felt as a back child in America surrounded by everyday racism. She longed for a sense of a meaning, and for a chance to show that she was worth something. Later in the poem she states “(I) began to believe all good people could get together and win without bloodshed then Hammarskjöld was killed… and Kennedy was killed” (Giovanni 1054-1055). She mentions the long list of people who were arrested and killed, in order to show the how it was not easy to fight the issue of discrimination in America. The problems a black person in America faced were crucial, and was even worst for a black woman. The discrimination of women leads to the las topic, “Death of a