Comparing Black Like Me And The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night
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In both Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon, readers are given the opportunity to look into the minds of people who are seen as inferior to those around them. Although Griffin in Black Like Me originally lived a life of luxury in a white neighborhood, his transformation of changing the pigment of his skin shed some light on how people treated and viewed blacks of the same region. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time revolves around a “15 years, 3 months, and 2 days” old boy named Christopher Boone born with Asperger’s. Both John Griffin and Christopher Boone both struggle with fitting into society, although Griffin’s condition is temporary whereas Boone’s is permanent.…show more content… At the surface, it may have seemed like blacks were happy to serve the whites. Once Griffin was in their shoes, he realized that they needed to act a certain way so they wouldn’t get treated worse than the already do. However, he also learns that even though he was one with the black community, there were still different levels of treatment and respect: “We, who were reduced to eating on the sidewalk, were suddenly elevated in status by this man’s misery” (27). Those who were capable of making a living for themselves were far better off than those looking for help from others. This situation suggests that although people can belong to the same race, it doesn’t mean that they are of the same