... is run by the Swerlins, a white couple who quickly take a liking to Malcolm. He helps around the house and is receptive and intelligent, which earns him the title of "good nigger." Malcolm is supposed to go to a reform school, but the Swerlins keep him at the detention home and send him to a normal junior high school. He even wins enough freedom ... . At school, Malcolm becomes a model student, and, as one of the few black students, is regarded as a novelty, what he calls a "pink poodle." Malcolm's teachers like him, but also make "nigger" jokes. At school dances, Malcolm is especially a...

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• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

... dancing in the nude. The Negro boys now blindfolded stage a "battle royal," which is a free-for-all where they beat each other to the drunken shouts of the whites. Practical jokes, humiliations, and terror ended by the narrator delivering a prepared speech of gratitude to the whites. At the end of the "battle-, the boy dreams that he has opened the briefcase ... given to him with his scholarship to a Negro college and that he finds an inscription reading: "To Whom It May Concern: Keep This Nigger-Boy Running." Pg. 33 At the "Battle Royal- we start out by comparing or separating black an...

• Word Count: 1401
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... and love of God are the necessary first steps on the road to freedom. Early in the book Malcolm received great grades, all his teachers loved, all though they use "nigger" jokes in front of him and since he was one of a few black students in the school, majority of the kids liked him. Malcolm felt himself to be regarded as a novelty ... community with far greater dignity and independence than the one he knows in Michigan. When he goes back to school, he gets angry and offended when people use the word "nigger." Another important event that happened during this school year was when he to...

• Word Count: 1289
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... around the servant's quarters- (Fugard, 25). And of course there is the hateful, horribly racist joke Hally claims to have shared with his father -- that life is as unfair as "a nigger's arse- (Fugard, 55). There is no way of knowing whether Hally's father actually uses this expression or not, though we have no reason to disbelieve it; however, it is extremely ... depth of his feeling for Sam and Willie. In fact, given Hally's shame and loathing over nearly everything connected with his father, it is hard to imagine them sharing any "jokes- at all. The relationship between Hally and his...

• Word Count: 2048
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School