Sojourner+Truth's+Account+of+Discrimination

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In __ An Account of an Experience with Discrimination, __ Sojourner Truth expresses the hardships blacks faced even after the Civil War. She describes a time where the conductor of a street car would not stop for her, instead he preceded to drag her through the streets before being abruptly stopped by a friend of Truth's. Although the man was dismissed from M,MNMhelps to depict the bravery, faith, and perservance present throughout all of the account.=====

In Sojourner's account she shows the bravery of blacks following the civil war by taking advantage of their newly found rights. Many blacks at the time were still too fearful to express their natural, god given rights, but not Sojourner. She took it upon herself to attempt to take a ride on a street car, knowing how much her race was still despised. After being shot down during her first try, she decided to risk the abuse and try again. A second time she was both rejected and injured, but this did not turn her into a coward. Instead, she filed charges and had the man arrested for assault and battery, showing her bravery in standing up to the white man. Attempting to disobey the orders of a white man was in itself a huge sign of bravery, but actually challenging his authority and taking the charges against him to court showed her continuing and never dying bravery. Throughout the account Truth is subject to cruel treatments simply because of her skin color. Many times she was denied privledges that were rightfully hers. She much have been discouraged countless times, but she held her faith strong in her heart. After, the dismissal of the first conducter she had faith that next time would be different (even though it wasn't). Her second experience with discrimination did not break her faith, but made her try harder for her races goal to be achieved. Alltogether Truth helps show that faith will persevere one way or another.

Ths most apparent theme in __An Account of an Experience with Discrimination__ is Sojourner's constant perserverance, throughout all the hardships she faced. After being rejected not once, but twice from a normal everyday activity she still would not give up. Instead of backing down and obeying the conductors demands she decided to fight back. She was sold into slavery around age 9. Even though it resulted in physical injury to herself she used it to her advantage. By filing charges against the conducter and taking him to court she showed her willingness to not give up on the fight for racial equality. Sojourner Truth perservered through both emotional and physical pain in order to insure a better life for her race for generations to come. More true words have never been said than by Sojourner Truth in this statement, "It is hard for the old slaveholding spirit to die. But die it must".

Sojourner's account of discrimination depicts more of and idea of realism than naturalism. It represents realism more because the spotlight is on the less fortunate class, which was the blacks. During her time period blacks were considered lower class citizens and treated with anything less than respect. In her account she shows just how real the actions towards blacks were and how difficult being black in America really ways, even after the Civil War. Her personal experience reveals the realism of American society following the Civil War and how uneccepting many people were.

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