Will review the submission and either publish your submission or provide feedback. You can help us out by revising, improving and updatingĪfter you claim a section you’ll have 24 hours to send in a draft. How did this happen? The narrator wanted to establish something that he knew in the town, and the only things that he truly knew were the horrible aspects of the past.

The narrator now owns a slave and wants the community of Dickens to be segregated. Instead of progress, African Americans were being segregated even more. Everything seemed to be going according to plan, but things, somehow, slipped backwards. In the 1960's the Civil Rights Acts were put in place. In the 1860's, slaves were freed from forced labor. However, he claims that the magnitude of his crimes is so large, that no one would care is he did this.

In the court, he smokes drugs, which is obviously illegal. He has never done anything wrong until his extreme infraction of owning a slave, and he has to go to the Supreme Court for his actions. In The Sellout, the narrator is also an African American. It is so common a stereotype that African Americans break the law that it has unfortunately almost become accepted in our culture. The narrator also did not know his mother, therefore has no family to back him up in his quest toward a greater future. The narrator wants to keep his culture, but the only things he can discover about it are bad. Often, it is said that an African American father is not to be found, and this is exactly what happens in the novel. The narrator's father, like the narrator, does not have a given first name, which is a common stereotype. Losing his identity after his father dies and the town of Dickens disappears from the map, the narrator feels lost. Written by blake wagner, Kohila K and other people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.

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