Black is My Favorite Color
In the short story, the main character, Nat Lime, loves to being with black people, but they do not love to be around him. All of his life he has lived in a predominately black neighborhood and he loves to be around black people. The only problem is that he is a white Jew and in the 1960's blacks could not trust any white men. He has spent his entire life trying to prove to people that he is not the average Jew and does not consider himself to be different from anyone. In the story he interacts with several different blacks that turn him away and eventually cause him to feel pain physically and emotionally. Nat Lime fails with black people socially, politically, economically, religiously, and psychologically; it just his faith. Nat Lime as a huge problem socially more then any other characteristics, with blacks. Since Mr. Lime is the minority in the neighborhood, he tries extra hard to fit in. He goes to the block parties they have every so often and even tries to be friends with some of the children his age. Buster is one of the children that he forced himself upon. Nat Lime would tries to make him his friend by inviting him to the movies. Buster could not offered to go to the movies so he excepted his invitation. A
The last problem that Nat Lime faced was a psychologically problem which interacts with the rest of his problems. Psychologically it is hard for a single black woman to make it in society without fear that someone is trying to take advantage of her loneliness. People in society has already brainwashed blacks to believe that all whites are trying to hurt, kill, or rape them. This alone can cause a person to be on the defense all of the time. Nat Lime had two stricks against before he could even show his true self. Since he was white blacks did not trust him, but because he was a Jew, people hated him. Jews are not Christians and do not hold the same beliefs has a Christian. Black people, even if they do not attend church regularly, still have deep beliefs about Christ and for the respect his life and rules. Jews are said to not believe in Jesus and that can be a sign of disrespect to Christians. Mrs. Ornita like most blacks was a Christian and it would be extremely hard for her to marry out of her religion. If most people were faced by a non-Christian they would most likely not envovle them in their life on a personal level. It probably would not get the point where they would have to decide whether or not they would marry out of their relgion. It was already a risk for Mrs. Ornita to date a white man but to marry out of her religion would be a huge sacrifice to make for love. Mrs. Harris, a black woman, dated Mr. Lime for a while but was scared to commit. Mrs. Harris just like Buster did not want a white man helping her with her problems. She had a cheap on a her shoulder which made her cold to white people. Only after a little confessing did she go on a date with During the time of 1960, people all of the country was fighting over desegregation and integration, which led people to believe tha
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Approximate Word count = 1234
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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