Monday, April 2, 2018
Benali, Zoey: Black like me
Hey, I'm Zoeyヾ(>ω<○)~☆! I'm reading Black like me and John Howard Griffen, the author and main character, wants to darken his skin to see what its like to be a black man. So he contacts a few dermatologists and one of them agrees to do it. They were fine with it the first few sessions but then they start to slowly chickening out of it and wanting to leave. But the only one who was feeling nauseous was Griffen because of the pills and lamps. The stereotype that was lingering in the dermatologists' mind was that black people will just kill their best of a friend with no reasons at all. Griffen tries to tell him that that's obviously not true but the dermatologist still doesn't believe him even though John is technically not black in the first place so it doesn't even apply to him anyway.
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I am reading "I Hunt Killers" and there is a huge stereotype in the book. That stereotype is that Jasper, the main character, will turn out to be just like his dad, a famous serial killer. Jasper isn't a serial killer and doesn't want to become a serial killer but people still don't believe him. This is similar to your book because just like people can't do anything about the skin color they were born with, Jasper can't do anything about his father being a serial killer yet he is still given the stereotype of him becoming a killer even after him saying he isn't and doesn't want to become a serial killer.
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