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Norman Rockwell The Problem We All Live With Analysis

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In his painting, “ The Problem We All Live With,” Norman Rockwell captures young Ruby Bridges’ isolation resulting from the country’s outrage over court-ordered desegregation in order to open a dialogue about the enduring legacy of racism. Rockwell used Ruby’s loneliness and innocence in the center of all the hatred towards her race to create a painting that shows her impact and the country’s reaction. Her dark skin in her bright white dress contrasted to the grayish brown walls with a racial insult laced specifically above her used during slavery and and hate organization called the KKK that resisted against Black American freedom. Norman Rockwell paints a crack and a tomato smashed against the wall where it says the racial insult, “nigger”
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