Samuel By Grace Paley Summary

In the fourth paragraph of the story “ Samuel” by Grace Paley, the narrator states “ But three of the boys were Negroes and the fourth one was something else she couldn’t tell for sure. In other words as readers we get a pretty good idea about the race of the kids. The statement is a pretty good hit trying to tell the reader that race plays an important role in the story. Due to the fact that the race of the children was indicate, implies that the time period must have been when there was racial issues at the time. In other words, the narrator is trying to say that even tho the kids were colored people, people on the trains still cared about them. The ladies on the train were trying to tell them to stop doing what they were doing by showing