Comparing The Brownies And The Kind Of Light That Shines

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The topics of racism and judgement are often correlated together, because people judge others on their way of life or the color of their skin. People often are quick to judge someone without knowing the person closely. Brownies by ZZ Packer and The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas by Reginald McKnight are two short stories that have the same topic of racism and judgement. ZZ Packer and Reginald McKnight took the topics about racism in different directions and how judgment is the reasoning for it. As many people judge others on their race without knowing them. The similarities and differences between the two stories shows diverse ways people judge others just by noticing the color of their skin and how it can lead to misunderstandings.
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A secret meeting happened to do the plan, but they find out that Troop 909 are kids who are special needs and delayed learners. Once the Troops find out something they had no clue about, they felt bad about judging them. They can relate to their situation as they are always the ones to get judge so quickly by others. In, The Kind of Light that Shines on Texas, it wasn’t until the end that Clint realized his mistakes, as he looks to Ah-so and realizes she is beautiful, he sees that the color of her skin is perfect. As both stories show that the characters had judge people without realizing the wrong they had done. They fed into the racism without knowing the other person they were harming. They showed that you can relate to the other if you know the situation they are going …show more content…

How her father talked about a white family and how they “dressed in distinctive garb” and how they would work for free (Packer). Packer includes this family, because they’re monks who pray on their knees and didn’t ask for much. Laurel’s father was in shock about them and how they were working for an African American for free. Laurel realized that racism is something that go away. Packer makes Laurel come to the realization that it won’t go away, because of how society stereotypes people and how judgment is always going to be something people do. In, The Kind of Light that Shines on Texas, Clint get into a fight with his bully, Oakley, and wants him to call him the n-word, in a sense Clint wants to hear it so he can know his place. Before that Clint questions on why he picked him over Marvin. Clint was trying to say why don’t you fight someone in the same economic class as you. As Clint is getting punched, Marvin moves Clint over and punches Oakley, after that Marvin just stares at Clint. McKnight shows that Clint puts Marvin into a category with Oakley, he basically shows that Clint thinks he is better. He hates Marvin not only, because he is stereotyping African Americans. He also sees that he is poor and acts weird. McKnight made Clint realized he had become racist to his own kind and ate into the

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