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Big Girls Don T Roll Analysis

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Reading,writing and literature in all its shapes and forms is an efficient way to configure the struggles and hardships that come while fighting for equality.In both stories the main characters were limited on freedom due to their complexion not only did it limit their freedom, it caused them second guess their abilities and it left them feeling powerless.The Book Of Negroes by Lawrence Hill and Big Girls Don't Cry by Connie Briscoe demonstrate through the protagonist that racism has the power to transform the silent and afflicted into powerful and resilient individuals.
People do not realize how much racism impacts a person's freedom. Not to mention in The Book Of Negroes Aminata comes to discover how racism can limit her freedom. In the book Aminata says “Yes if you were born there, they call you an …show more content…

But here they call all of us the same thing: Niggers,Negroes, slaves”(Hill.122) Aminata at the beginning of the book had no idea what racism was because back in Bayo Africa she never had to worry about racism since she was surrounded by all Africans. But when Aminata says this it is clear she understands how being African American could limit her to being just a slave in South Carolina.But with Aminata being as ambitious as she is she did not allow the racism to limit her freedom for long.In the story it says “I wasn’t free yet until I reclaimed my home land”(Hill.384). Aminata fought for many years and overcame many rough journeys to get out of the slave trade and claim her freedom back that is why she was did everything she could to get back to her homeland. Comparing this to the book Big Girls Don't Cry Naomi begins to realize how many black citizens allow racism to limit their freedom. In the story Naomi says “How was I ever going to up shops around the country if she couldn’t even go eat outside her own neighborhood”(Briscoe,39).Naomi began to believe that she

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