The Week Ahead: The Imitation Of Childhood
In The Week Ahead the arthur argues that Douglas described making the characters in imitation of life hopeless. The reason why this is a great source for me because it shows how race and being a woman was very hard in trying to live out the american dream. Douglas says “ Both white and black are living imitated lives.” To me he is saying that both black and white are living a life where they are following others. In the imitation of life he describes how Sarah Jane johnson who was biracial but imitated her life as a white woman to be accepted in america. The arthur feels that the only thing that is real in the show is the emotion that the generates feels. The point that the author is making is that the imitation of life was build on characters