Summary Of The Dark By Rosemary Bray

Un-afraid of The dark, Rosemary L. Bray’s gut wrenching novel about overcoming one’s own life struggles to become successful. Bray’s life at home can be described as extraordinarily trying and demanding. Living with a father who cares more about gambling and arguing with his wife rather than being the man of the family and working, a substantial amount of her life revolved around welfare and her father’s disapproval of her. Bray soon discovers her way out of her fathers verbal and physical abuse, learning how to read and write. Once she started school, she found out that she is an outstanding learner and is ahead of her other classmates.

Bray was a very hard working individual through her drive to become a writer, she has begun school

the children of that grade were mean to her, maybe out of jealousy, but she was left out of cliques and got left lonely during recess. Her learning abilities were what set her apart from everybody else and made her life at home much more bearable. On page 24, Bray states that “when my parents spoke quietly together about how smart I was they almost sounded like a regular father and mother.” her hard working mother could not seem to do anything right regardless of how hard she was working while her hard tempered father found every reason to be angry with her. In this novel, Rosemary L. Bray is faced with the struggle of welfare and seeming to have no way out of this poor life until she understands where an education can get you. During this time period, racism is very strong and is an everyday issue. “an education is the only thing that the white man can't take from you.”

(Bray 24). Racism during this time era was revolved around propaganda, people such as the KKK had goals to scare people out of towns.

This quote infers that a black student trying to beat the odds of his future is far more likely to succeed rather than a white student taking advantage of his or her’s opportunity to become educated. In the novel. Un-afraid of the dark, written by Rosemary L.

Bray she explains how her way out of her home was through education and becoming successful which leads Holzman’s assumption to be true. Holzman explains the never ending cycle of poverty is due to incarnation of black men due to their lives being placed in such low economic conditions and given an ineffective education which did not allow them to be successful. This then led to multiple drop outs and then led the post students to become violent and continued to turn into high crime rates which demolished any chances of success. These elements gave adult black males conflict in getting a successful job and then beating incarceration, which gives their children the same conflict to then face in their lives. In order to beat the never ending cycle, we would need to combine the education programs and diminish the separation between superior education and the education given to children living in