Wednesday, May 29, 2019

The short story If I Quench Thee by William E. Chambers is an appropria

The short story If I quench Thee by William E. Chambers is an appropriate story as it efficaciously deals with the issue of racism by showing it through the eyes of a racist white father who assumes his daughter is marrying a black man.If I Quench TheeChoose a short story that you know well that deals with an importantissue. State what the issue is and show, by referring to the plot,character, and technique and how the author has sure-firely exploredthe issue in an interesting and unusual track.The short story If I Quench Thee by William E. Chambers is anappropriate story as it effectively deals with the issue of racism byshowing it through the eyes of a racist white father who assumes hisdaughter is marrying a black man.If I Quench Thee is about Arthur Stern, a successful business manwho visits his daughter who works as a social worker in the ghetto.Whilst Arthur is visiting her she is visited by a black man who is jilted by her father because he is racist so he leaves. He waits outside and thinks about it and realises he can bare his daughterdating a black man so he goes back to apologise. When he returns heoverhears the black man saying to Arthurs daughter Monica thatmarrying her would be the best the he would do. Hearing this Arthurfills will anger and leaves. He waits for Tod to come out then murdershim saying that it was a mugging and it was self defence. In thepolice plaza his daughter turns up and tells her father that theblack man was the vicar for her wedding. This has been the only timeArthur was ever scared.Arthur Stern is a successful business man who owns a mink farm. Hewas in the Korean war which I think lead to his hatred of other races.Arthur an... ...disgusted that state could be so racist and how people could thinkthat they have a right to kill others just because they arent thesame skin colour as them. It made me think about how shake off and twistedpeople can be and how that some people can hate something so much thatthey would take it too such extreme lengths as to things such asmurder. I personally think racism is wrong because people of adifferent race arent any different or inferior to white people likeArthur Stern thought.To conclude, I think that the author has expressed the view on racismin an effective way relating to the plot, characters and techniquesused. Even though Stern was such an evil man, he can still feelregret for such a terrible act afterwards realising that what he has doneis actually wrong. This makes me believe that human society canimprove on its views of racism.

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