Theme Of The Coming Of Age In Mississippi By Anne Moody

The Coming of Age in Mississippi is a 1968 memoir written by Anne Moody. Anne moody is an African American author and civil rights activists, who wrote about her experience of being black and growing up poor in the countryside of Mississippi. The book concentrates mostly on the experiences of racism and daily struggles from Moody’s perspective, to the hardships of being black during these times of racial discrimination and anguish. The Coming of Age in Mississippi was written in first person, its shows chronologically the events of Moody’s life starting from the earliest memory the young age of four to when the author moved to Washington DC at twenty-four. The style of writing the author chose shaped the book. Moody chose certain events to detail while gliding over other. Moody put an emphasis on what is more informative. To draw the audience in and to make the readers connect on a more personal level the chapters are grouped in four ways; Childhood, Highschool,

Moody became very aware of the things that were occurring at the time. Moody used frustration, confusion and hurt to thoroughly illustrate this autobiography. The story correlates with a lot of issues that not only black families but black individuals are facing today. Moody succeeds at creating a sense of understanding. One of the major theme of the book touch on is “the illogical division of race”, At the time white inferiority was pushed heavily. One of the most memorable memory in the book was Moody as a child. Moody unquestionable reason to play doctor and inspect the body of her siblings and friend was to the reader logical enough. Moody could not understand the reason as to why whites were considered inferior, this to the readers shows the introduction to the distinction race. This book deals with one of the main problems of the time. It deals with primarily racism during the time of Anne Moody and the troubles and racist behavior that she was exposed