The child by tiger

One reason why the story, The Child by Tiger, is so plausible is because of the story’s setting. The physical setting that the author has portrayed helps you fully understand the emotions that his character are feeling. In 1912 the blacks had little to no rights, they lived in little shacks that had no electricity or nearly enough room in them for every family member that occupied the shack. They had one communal phone that was located in the only grocery store they had, they had a drugstore, barber shops and poolrooms. Everything was located on Gulley Street, which was almost like Broadway to the African Americans. Gulley Street then turned into South Dean that lead to the Square on the white side of town. The town square was located in the middle of the white side of town. Along side the square shops where located, simple things like the Police HQ, Lunchroom, School and Cash Eagers Hardware. Not only did they have more shops then the African-American’s but they also had alleys and streetlights that always turned on during the night. The whites then also owned beautiful homes with large yards and enough room for everyone who lived in the home. They even had enough room to home some of the servants that lived with them, giving the African-Americans a house and a job. Within their large homes, the whites had crank cars that in the winter, they had to boil water and put it down the radiator spout before it would start. But even if their cars couldn’t start, they could just go inside their homes and use a telephone to call a neighbour to help. Even with the African-American’s having their own side of town, the whites still owned and had better jobs then what is there is now. In 1912, African-American’s had jobs that forced them to work and listen to the white man, with hardly any pay and no rights in the workforce. They where servants, labourers, cooks, housekeepers, chauffer and worked on the train. They took the jobs that white people didn’t want and found