The Light Of Gandhi's Lamp Sparknotes

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In this essay, we will cover how cultural and social issues shape the authors of in their writings. First, we are going to look at apartheid in South Africa in “The Light of Gandhi’s Lamp” by: Hilary Kromberg Inglis. That is where we will find a corrupt police and a girl scared of going to the police office to go help her sister. Then, we are going into Montgomery, Alabama, where we are going to see the sad facts of segregation and police brutality in the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by: Martin Luther King Jr. All the while, we are going to answer this question throughout this essay. How are the social issues and cultural experiences of the authors portrayed in the texts that they write? In “The Light of Gandhi’s Lamp” by: Hilary Kromberg Inglis she faces the …show more content…

“Tonight, was one of those nights when the yellow police van, full of red-faced white policemen, were doing the rounds to arrest those with the “wrong” skin color in the “wrong” residential area, throwing them into those vans to suffer at the hands of the violent apartheid system. Men and women who served us hand and foot in our homes and gardens were treated brutally and often separated from family for days, months and years.” This is a part of the apartheid and her cultural experience, that she was around as a 10-year-old. The injustices that she saw, reflects how she wrote and how this changed her story. This is a cultural experience that happens across the world, not just in this story but in the lives that we live here today in this life. Now, it may not happen exactly this way, but I do believe that it happens in a similar way everywhere. In the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by: Martin Luther King Jr., he writes of injustices done by the “white moderate” through segregation and police brutality. Throughout his letter, he writes of some of the social issues, him and his black brothers and sister have endured. He uses his background with God and his cultural experiences to aid him through his