Analysis Of Coming Of Age In Mississippi By Anne Moody

The book, Coming of Age in Mississippi is wrote by Anne Moody. In the book Anne Moody was known as Essie Mae. Essie Mae lived in a plantation with her parents in the first four years of her Childhood. Later on she and her mother moved away from the plantation. When author was in fourth grade she had to work after school and weekends in order to support the family. Essie works hard and does really good in school. During High School there is when Essie find out NAACP, and how they help to improve African Americans. She started to take noticing that no whites wanted to stop these violence act. When Anne can take all these problem any more, she decided to moved to New Orleans for few summers. She worked in order to save money for college. In her

Her father left Anne and Anne’s mother when she was young for another woman. Anne’s mother was a strong independent woman that she look up to. During one summer, Anne help her mother and her step father in the plantation. The temperature was so hot, Anne decided not to become a farmer like her mother and father and wanted to get out of black poverty system (Chapter 8). When she was eighth grade, she help the school fundraised money. That was the first experience on organizing people to work together. She would start use that skill she learned later on during the political movement. Before entering the high school, one of her classmate was murdered by white lynching mob. Anne was angry at other African americans for not standing for himself and allow himself to be kill and push around. “I hated them(other African-American people) for not standing up and doing something about the murders. In fact, I think I had a stronger resentment toward Negroes for letting the whites kill them than toward the whites” (Chapter 11). Anne is really upset and she wanted the situation to change.When anne was young, she was not allow to sit with her white friends when they go to movies. Anne started to question about the racial problem. When Anne was nine, she started to work with Linda Jean. Linda’s mother was a really mean white women. She always tried to make Anne quit the job by giving her hard

As African-Americans, she could of not enjoy her life like her white friends. She would be often be pick on because her skin color. In high school, she was sexually harassed by her own stepfather. Luckily, she has been a strong independent woman with a strong mindset for working hard to get what she want. Moody had grow up facing all the problems in the south. Many Africans Americans have very low to no education of their own rights, and often they are not able to use their rights. So many of them had been quiet and just accepted the random death and false charge. Black farmers in the south often not able to produce food and good enough to make a good living because they are sharecroppers and the owner of the land just take most of goods away. Other problem for blacks, they are often kill, burned, lynched, and beaten for crime that they did not commit. Many of Moody’s family member, classmate, and friends was killed. Whites wanted blacks to fear them in order to keep them in the lower level as they were slaves. Police in the south often not trying to protect blacks. In the black community there are another class called “yellow”. They judge and look down on other black people. For example, Miss Pearl, Anne’s new grandmother. She disliked Anne’s mother because her skin color. Linda Jean was a nice white woman, she is employer of Anne when she was young and treated Anne very well. One of most important