he lived being a black man living in the South. Although the story isn't fully based on

racial issues, Dick still suffers racial oppression. For example, the fight with Lon Everett,

and having to sit outside of the white church during services. Eventually, after trying for

so long to remain calm and be accepted by society, he goes crazy on a killing rampage.

"Child By Tiger" shows a complete loss of innocence reguarding Prosser. He was once an

incredible black man that had many talents most blacks didnt have. All Dick wanted was to

be accepted by society but after he had tried so hard and so long he cant bear it anymore

and that is what causes his sudden reuption of violence. Prosser transforms from being the

lamb- very innocent creature, into a tiger by the end of the story- hence the title.

In the short story "The Child by Tiger," Thomas Wolfe uses Dick Prosser's

Dick dies a humiliating death, "hanging in the window of the undertaker's place, for every

more. "But suddenly the whites of his eyes are shot with red." Anger sweeping through

killed a b'ar, we did!" (Pg. 38) Now even further from the acceptance of the townspeople,

liver-colored lips." Turning the other cheek, Dick passively suffers Lon Everett's hits once

a fit of violent rage, his last weak attempt to gain esteem. Looking to the whites, blacks,

reverence from the townspeople, Ben Pounders "was the proud possessor of another

society doesn't deem a black man hitting a white man as appropriate. Instead, Dick just

servant-like nature to the white population. The afternoon before the killings, Dick's Bible

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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)