an adventurous spirit and likes to go far with his ideas and push things to the limits. He knows a lot about different subjects because he is after all a writer. “With my decision to become a Negro I realized that I, a specialist in race issues, really knew nothing about the Negro’s real problem” (Griffin 8). John Griffin is a writer so throughout the story he is very descriptive and uses a lot of detailed explanations. In the beginning of his adventure he is very scared and intimidated about traveling into the south. He is scared about the people he will meet and also about how people will react to him. “From the shadows, the figure of a white man emerged. Should I nod and say ‘Good Evening,’ or simply ignore him?” (Griffin 17). He soon realizes that there is a certain code that black people follow. So Griffin has to discover this code and follow it. He is treaty badly by white people and that is no surprise to him. He is stunned by their lack of sympathy for the black people. “At each bus stop, I sounded the buzzer, but the driver continued through the next two stops. He drove me eight full blocks past my original stop and pulled up only then for the white passengers” (Griffin 48). Griffin’s moment of epiphany was when he realized that he was now a black man and that he had crossed the line and he could not go back in his mind. “In the flood of light against the white tile, the face and shoulders of a stranger-a fierce, bald, very dark Negro-stared at me from the glass. He in no way resembled me. The transformation was total and shocking. I had expected to see myself disguised, but this was something else. I was im

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