Coming of Age in Mississippi-Book Report

Coming of Age in multiple sclerosis by Anne Moody is an autobiographic account of a black woman living in South struggling against the centuries old racial discrimination by the white. She passed through almost homogeneous incidences like other members of her race bearing humiliation and disgraceful treatment from the upper white class. Anne Moody narrates the story of herself growing up in multiple sclerosis when racial discrimination against the blacks was the peak.In her account, Anne Moody describes the adversities of living in the south where the black population had just started their essay for equal rights. The life was pathetic for the Negroes with little hopes for emancipation. The elaborate are well described in an easy language and style moving the reader by the depth and emotional appeal it contains. The sentence expression is not so good for Moody not being a professional writer. Anne Moody tells the incredible events of her early childhood living in a household of divorced parents and extreme poverty.She provides a glance over the several death warnings and intentional massacre of her family members and friends by the powerful whites. She developed a incident hatred not only for the whites for her own race too as she writes in the book, I was 15 years old when I began to hate battalion I hated all the whites who were responsible for the countless murders But I also hated Negroes. I hated them for not standing up and doing something almost the murders (129).The life for her and other blacks was no different from that in the slavery days of pre-Civil War period. She tells about a society in which no one cute to live in peace and tranquility. Anne Moodys narrative includes events comparable to both Martin Luther Kings and Henry David Thoreaus Civil Rights tactics, Anne was highly influenced by King. Her book is written in into four parts covering different stages of her life childhood, high school years, college years and participation in th e civil rights movement.These stages greatly resemble Kings four point program of gathering facts, self-purification, negotiation, and direct action (King 290). Black Boy by Richard Wright is another account equal to Annes. an autobiography initially published in 1945, focus on the many hardships African Americans faced as individuals and families. Similar to Annes, Richards father his family when he was very young. They were left over(p) with their mother making her to be devastated by and ending up with a stroke.Richard had to start working at a prime age to look later on his mother and siblings. The two narratives are only different being penned by and from a male and female perspective. Annes book is about the inner struggle within her and about the conflicts she had with society and her own fellow blacks. The title of the book, Coming of Age in Mississippi clearly talks of the subject matter inside. It is a story of growing up or coming of age, getting mature in a highly div ided society in the state of Mississippi undergoing a struggle and change.It provides an insight and understanding of historical importance of the events taking place in the years of Civil Rights Movement. The book gives a good valuation of the sufferings of the black population and their hard struggle for getting petty and basic rights. Works Cited King, Martin Luther Jr. Letter from Birmingham City Jail from A Testament of Hope. harpist Collins, 1991 Moody, Anne. Coming of Age in Mississippi. Delta, New York, February 2004 Wright, Richard. Black Boy. Harper Perennial Modern Classics. September 1, 1998