Mcbride questions

Alan Marx

September 11, 2014

Professor Young

English 1100

McBride Questions

            The Main concept of black power that James is trying to explain in his story is that even though in this time black power was an overpowering movement, it wasn’t going to let nor the mother or anyone else in her family down. I find this to be an identity, their family was a strong family, and the mother was the reason behind al of it. No matter what was happening she was focused on things like getting her children to church and made sure they did good in school. I find it also very strong of her, when she was mugged by those men she fought to keep that purse and even when the purse was taken, she took her sons hand and walked away like nothing ever happened and she says “Its only a purse”. A lot of people in this time had to accept the fact that they were going to be treated differently every where they went whether it was on the train or just walking around, they were looked at as different. After growing up all of his life learning that ones life is their own private life and no one else should have a say. The scene on the bus really shows everything that James had seen and learned in his life, he punches a kid in the face, a kid that was a son of a father who was known as “Black Power”, he was tired of being seen as different and wanted to make a stand for him and his family that he was here to stay and there was nothing that anyone could do about it. That’s why I feel that this story was based on identity