Summary Of 'Middle Passage' By Captain Falcon
The Last Hour of History Due to the Reality of Captain Falcon’s Dream
In “Middle Passage” by Charles Johnson, Captain Falcon describes a dream of his that sounds absolutely crazy and out of his world, but one that is rather familiar to our world today (145). The parallels between the things that he sees in his dream and the reality of the world today are precise up to every sentence that he describes. The author touches on equality of religion, disease, modern day slavery, poverty, homelessness, and the LGBTQ community in a way that shows how incredibly different the world was in the 1800’s compared to the world in the 2000’s. Falcon describes a vision that has come true in our world today, one that may be the last hour of history.
Falcon’s dream is not a dream at all and rather is the reality of the future at that time. On page 145, Falcon begins to talk about …show more content…
a world that is “overrun with Mudmen and Jews.” This is represented of the world today where diversity has become much more relevant and religions of all sorts, be it the Jewish religion or Muslim religion, is accepted and mixed in with Christians of all denominations. He continues to say that this world is “riddled with viral infections and venereal complaints” (Johnson 145), which is true today where there are now things such as anti-biotic resistant bacteria that could turn into another epidemic if not taken care of soon. Not only today, but within the last ten years, the world has seen an enormous spike in STD’s and STI’Ss, venereal complaints, due to an ever-growing population of people who have a lot of unprotected sex, and where people have to where protection every time they have sex because the risk of these diseases are so high.
He further describes his dream as “whole generations of white children who’ll be strangers, if not slaves, in their own country” (Johnson 145). Not just white children, but children of all colors are thrown into a world full of poverty, where they may have to start working at an age as early as nine years old in order to try to feed themselves, becoming slaves to society and their jobs. Family members who slave day and night at a factory job, working 80 hours a week, just so they can support themselves and the children that they brought into the world. Children going to college and slaving away doing homework just so they can attempt to obtain a decent job when they get older. He continues with “People living in alleyways” (Johnson 145), where today you can go into almost any big city and find hundreds of homeless people living on the street and in actual alleyways because they no longer can find a roof to put over their heads. He describes a time where “Sexes and races were blurred. I saw riots in cites” (Johnson 145). Where in our society today there
is not just one gender, but rather the acceptance of so many different genders and sexualities, and people protest everyday through marches, riots, and letters to the government trying to fight for the equality of the LGBTQ community. He even goes as far as to talk about “the rise of Aztec religion and voodoo as a credible spiritual practices,” and “worshipping stage personalities” (Johnson 145). The United States of America is a free country and due to this, religions have grown into the hundreds. There are people who actually do practice voodoo and different cult practices. We worship people on television such as the Kardashian family who we actually know nothing about, but so many women strive to look and to act just like they do.
In our world there is so much uncertainty about how much longer we will live. Between what we have learned about disease, the unending wars between people of all cultures, sexes, religion, and homelessness, it is very possible that this “dream” of Falcon’s may be close to the last hour of the human population as a whole. The author uses a way of a dream in order to talk about much larger issues that the world is facing today, many times about inequality of all aspects. Also, the idea that slavery is very black and white, but Captain Falcon proves this wrong and shows that even in society in 2017 there is modern day slavery, to a job, to a school, to the government, or even to society itself. If we do not fix these issues we may destroy the only world that we live in and unintendedly cause this to become the last hour of history.
In “Middle Passage” by Charles Johnson, Captain Falcon describes a dream of his that sounds absolutely crazy and out of his world, but one that is rather familiar to our world today (145). The parallels between the things that he sees in his dream and the reality of the world today are precise up to every sentence that he describes. The author touches on equality of religion, disease, modern day slavery, poverty, homelessness, and the LGBTQ community in a way that shows how incredibly different the world was in the 1800’s compared to the world in the 2000’s. Falcon describes a vision that has come true in our world today, one that may be the last hour of history.
Falcon’s dream is not a dream at all and rather is the reality of the future at that time. On page 145, Falcon begins to talk about …show more content…
a world that is “overrun with Mudmen and Jews.” This is represented of the world today where diversity has become much more relevant and religions of all sorts, be it the Jewish religion or Muslim religion, is accepted and mixed in with Christians of all denominations. He continues to say that this world is “riddled with viral infections and venereal complaints” (Johnson 145), which is true today where there are now things such as anti-biotic resistant bacteria that could turn into another epidemic if not taken care of soon. Not only today, but within the last ten years, the world has seen an enormous spike in STD’s and STI’Ss, venereal complaints, due to an ever-growing population of people who have a lot of unprotected sex, and where people have to where protection every time they have sex because the risk of these diseases are so high.
He further describes his dream as “whole generations of white children who’ll be strangers, if not slaves, in their own country” (Johnson 145). Not just white children, but children of all colors are thrown into a world full of poverty, where they may have to start working at an age as early as nine years old in order to try to feed themselves, becoming slaves to society and their jobs. Family members who slave day and night at a factory job, working 80 hours a week, just so they can support themselves and the children that they brought into the world. Children going to college and slaving away doing homework just so they can attempt to obtain a decent job when they get older. He continues with “People living in alleyways” (Johnson 145), where today you can go into almost any big city and find hundreds of homeless people living on the street and in actual alleyways because they no longer can find a roof to put over their heads. He describes a time where “Sexes and races were blurred. I saw riots in cites” (Johnson 145). Where in our society today there
is not just one gender, but rather the acceptance of so many different genders and sexualities, and people protest everyday through marches, riots, and letters to the government trying to fight for the equality of the LGBTQ community. He even goes as far as to talk about “the rise of Aztec religion and voodoo as a credible spiritual practices,” and “worshipping stage personalities” (Johnson 145). The United States of America is a free country and due to this, religions have grown into the hundreds. There are people who actually do practice voodoo and different cult practices. We worship people on television such as the Kardashian family who we actually know nothing about, but so many women strive to look and to act just like they do.
In our world there is so much uncertainty about how much longer we will live. Between what we have learned about disease, the unending wars between people of all cultures, sexes, religion, and homelessness, it is very possible that this “dream” of Falcon’s may be close to the last hour of the human population as a whole. The author uses a way of a dream in order to talk about much larger issues that the world is facing today, many times about inequality of all aspects. Also, the idea that slavery is very black and white, but Captain Falcon proves this wrong and shows that even in society in 2017 there is modern day slavery, to a job, to a school, to the government, or even to society itself. If we do not fix these issues we may destroy the only world that we live in and unintendedly cause this to become the last hour of history.