To get a glimpse into the real world, the reader has to take a deeper look in why Dick Prosser snapped in “Child by Tiger”. Dick was switched from one extreme of being well liked among other people and being their equal to being looked upon as an inferior worker by race. In the first few paragraphs, he was described as a military man only respected while in the service. “He knew how to box too. I think he had been a regimental champion…Shepperton’s new Negro man came along…” Dick was a man of all trades in the Army and to be a champion boxer was a high respect among ALL men. The society hardly ever calls Dick Prosser by his name. He is mainly referred as the Negro or as one of Sheppertons possessions. The society also saw Dick as a black, hard working, lower classman. “ He had come there looking for work just a month or two before…and was eager to get employment, at no matter what wage.” As long as he got a job he was going to be happy. How much he was going to get paid didn’t matter to him. His qualifications were so impressive that they thought that there was nothing he wasn’t able to accomplish. Because he was black the town put him on a lower class level and he worked for his pay. The public was even cruel to him and didn’t even know it. “Mr. Shepperton himself declared that Dick was the best man he’d ever had, the smartest darky that he’d ever know.” What Mr. Shepperton said sounds nice at first but really it’s a slam on Dick. He’s only seen as a black man, not an equal, and it shows that he is owned by Mr. Shepperton, not a free man.

Thomas Wolfe decided to show the society that their worst fears could happen. The boys believed that a secret should never be told, but they f

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