Summary By Rembert Browne Analysis

This article, written by Rembert Browne, a professional cultural critic, was about Tyler Perry, a screenwriter, actor, author, playwright, director, and producer. It tells the tale of the “rags-to-riches” story that is his life. Browne starts off by expressing his initial distaste for Perry believing that Perry’s work, especially his characters, had affected Browne negatively as a “black person in a white world”. Browne then talks about Perry’s poor upbringing in New Orleans; how he came from an abusive father who he lost all respect for – he went as far as changing his birth name, Emmitt to Tyler so he no longer had to bear the same name – and a mother whom he adored very much. Perry later moved to Atlanta for Freaknik, “the promised land”,