Jason
Armer
Mrs.
Disher
4/21/2016
“Our hope shot down”
The death of Brother Clifton seemed very peculiar to me.
It kind of parallels racial injustice that we see today. Brother Clifton was
selling Sambo dolls (dolls that mimicked African-Americans in a borderline
racist way, when a cop showed up and all of a sudden started pushing him down.
Naturally, Clifton retaliated, and things escalated quickly. At the end, the
cop shot the defenseless Clifton, and ended his life. The cop did not see
Clifton as the man he was, but as a threat to society due to the color of his
skin. At his funeral rally, I feel that the narrator handled the situation
well. The metaphors that he spoke in provided a sense of dramatic irony,
because we know what he was talking about (protesting the Brotherhood), but the
audience that was listening to him did not know what he was talking about. The
story gets crazier and crazier. I love the plotline in this story (having read
it before) and I know that it certainly does not get any more boring. My
question for you is, how would you have reacted if you were in Clifton’s shoes?
I think I would have reacted the same way that Clifton did in the story. Also,
how do you feel about the way the narrator reacted at the funeral rally?
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