Explorations of the Text:
1. What is the nature of the interaction between the two boys?
It was unfriendly approached. Not as what usually happens to ordinary little boys friendship. There's sentiment of sarcasm and prejudice.
2. Why does the speaker remember nothing more than the incident, even though he stayed in Baltimore from "May until December"?
The speaker remember nothing because the prejudice was just too obvious to him. He experienced nothing much rather than the race discrimination that he gone through. Indeed he was so young boy, he couldn't think of anything in bigger conflicts instead of what is clearly seen or experienced by him.
The Reading/Writing Connection
1. In a paragraph compare your experience of prejudice with the persona in the poem.
Throughout my life, prejudice has got nothing much to do with me. I might have encountered prejudice but it is surely not too obvious. In some cases perhaps just because I am Malay, so I was misunderstood as less smart and definitely from a lower class society. However I took that more to stereotypes that they have for Malay societies and just being typically sceptical.
Ideas for Writing
1. What do its form and rhyme add to this poem?
The poem is in figurative form and the rhyme is ABAB.
2. What is the power of language? What are the effects of the use of the term nigger?
Language plays a big role in two ways of communication. Referring to the poem, the word nigger did really gives a huge impact to the speaker. This is because through language, we understand. Through language too, we feel the meaning. The speaker wouldn't take it much affected if it was a bias glance. However, through language, it contains clear meaning which interpreted through the brain which makes the speaker feel irritated and injustice.
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