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Analysis Of Mama's Missionary Money By Chester Himes

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Money is not a most important thing in the world, but you will have a hard time to live without money. With money, you could buy a lot of things and do a lot of things you want. That why money is the main reason to create a greed of a person specially teenager. Teenagers are still depending on their parents and can not make money to support their own need. "Chester Himes is one of the towering figures of the black literary tradition”, he is a great author that reflect a real life of African American. In “Mama’s Missionary Money”, Chester Himes was show the reader powerful life lesson. Chester Himes uses the greed of child as a unifying device for setting, structure, and theme. Every teenager, come to real life, the only thing the wonder and curious about a lot of things, watching movie, play a new …show more content…

After hanging out alone, he starts hangout with his friends. “I got some money” (172). All the kids are excited and asked, "Where you git it?" Burrhead's eyes were big as saucers. "Ne you mind. I got it". "All his gang knew he was stealing the money from somewhere". His friends are really want to know where he got money from but they are not really a good friend because his friend can be help him out and stop him from stole his mother's money. Then when he comes home, his mother was curious and ask him a lot of question about where have Lem been all day. His action made once of the parent realized that something was going on. “Lemuel, I give you uh chance tuh tell the truth. What you do with your ma’s missionary money?” (174). This made the mood of the hold story down and became more conflict. His pa keeps repeating "Ummmmp!" While hearing his son make excuse but his parent already find down and he got beat again. The author use figurative language to describe how badly Lem got beat from his

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