How Do People Use Race And Social Class To Define A Person's Character

Kimily Fernandes

ELA 12

Ms. Petta

Ms. Greene

Ms. Perez

How the people use race and social class to define a person’s character?

In both works the authors lead the reader to question: How do people use race and social class to define a person’s character? While in spite of the similarities in both works, the authors provide different answer. In “Private Experience,” the narrator Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie tells the reader the difference between classes and the prejudgment, like when we made about people even we don’t know them. As an example when Chika was trapped in that store with the “woman”, she start to observed the woman and judge her without knowing her character. She judged the “woman” by her ship clothes and the plastic bracelet and she has the conclusion that the “woman” was poor. While in “Tourist”, by Felix Morisseau-Leroy shows that the difference between race is far for end on people's mind and the auto- judgement that we do in yourself because you may use to heard people judgements about you and you accept, but in an way the Author shows that even being poor, black or “inferior” to the tourist the main character have culture and education.

The story talked about two women trapped into a old store because the riots on the street. Chika the christian woman that was on the street was saved by the “woman”. Then they start to talk about their lives and theirs lost. On the story Chika shows that sometimes people judges others people by what they see (the exterior). “Chika imagines she was thinking of her necklace, probably plastic beads thread and a piece of string …” “Even without the woman’s strong accent, Chika can tell she is a northerner, from the narrowness of her