Black Like Me
Beginning of paper
by John Howard Griffin is a Multicultural story set in the south
around the late 1950's in first person point of view about John Griffin in 1959
in the deep south of the east coast, who is a novelist that decides to get his
skin temporarily darkened medically to black. What Griffin hopes to achie ....
Middle of paper
.... case of a black lynching,
Griffin decides to go to the heart of the deep south, Mississippi to check it
out.
Even with the risk of his life, Griffin decides to take a bus to Hattiesburg
into the deep south to check out the lynching case. At the bus station, Griffin
acquired “hate stares “ from many whites on the benches waiting for their buses.
Griffin boarded the bus, and during the trip he conversed with a man named
Christophe, and when the white passengers got off the bus during the re ....
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Word count: 959
Page count: 4 (approximately 250 words per page)