The Suffering or Violence operating in African American Literature

In the first to Novel Quick Sand and Going to Meet the Man there were many topics that African American literature captured. Both novels covered the topics of suffering or violence through the eyes of a black writer. In the books it gave you a inside look, of the time periods that the stories took place and all the different nationality were being treated unfairly. It was not only certain races that had to overcome boundaries that held them back from reaching a peaceful state of mind. It was all races that suffered from being equal among each other’s company. In both the novels there were many seen of unhappiness because of the suffering that people were going through. Most of the suffering was happing because people of different skin tone were treating each other in a negative ways.  There was time in the novel were you read about people not being able to be in stay in rooms because of their skin tone or even talk to somebody outside their ethnicity. People were suffering because they were living lives that were unsatisfactory. The conditions that they were living in made them unable to be happy and like their surroundings. In novel Going to Meet the Man violence or the killing was seen in some stories. There was many graphic depiction of people being tortured or abuse in a way that you would of thought, no person in their right mind would commit a heinous crime against another human being. It just cannot imagine why people would do these horrible acts of crime toward another human. Then you have to remember that in that time in era and life the justice systems was not a major factor unless the person that did the crime, was caught red handed. In some case the law was involved in the crime that was taking place. Most of the violence or suffering was affecting the African American community. The African American races were seen as the lowest race in the world and they were step on by the Caucasian community because of the strong hatred the runs through their blood. The suffering and violence in these novels were real aspects of life that could not be escaped because the country was in a terrible mindset that could almost be considered as plague that happened in America. 

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