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Perfect Peace By Daniel Black Stereotypes

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The book Perfect Peace by Daniel Black covers a variety of stereotypes and issues that plague the black community more specifically when dealing with the ideas of self-love and sexuality. While the book primarily focuses on Perfect/Paul and his mother Emma Jean much can be said about Perfect’s father Gus. Perfect’s father Gus in many ways is not only similar to Perfect’s mother but is also contradicting in the way he treats Perfect/Paul once he finds out that he is a boy. Perfect’s father Gus in the story is revealed to be a sensitive man who cries more than most. Much like Emma Jean Gus was neglected and abused by his parent in this case his father. As a child Gus’s father tells him that, “tears didn’t speak well for one who would, one day,
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