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A 3 pag3e review of Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody. No additional sources cited.
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beyond. In Coming of Age in Mississippi Anne Moody offers the reader a look her childhood and early adult years as she struggled against oppression, prejudice and danger. The following
paper offers a review of her book. Coming of Age in Mississippi The work of Moody is set up into four different categories. The first section deals with
her early childhood. It speaks of her experiences and her limited understanding of racial issues. It is interesting to note that she did not hate people as a child for
she possessed that simply understanding of life that does not really present one with the depth needed for true hatred. She wonders, however, why white people seem to have everything
they need. She states "Every house I had ever lived in was a one-or two-room shack with an outdoor toilet. It really bothered me that they had all these nice
things and we had nothing" (Moody, 1992; 39). Her hatred and deep understanding does not come to her until she was in
her high school years, the second section of the work. It is then that she really began to hate, and truly see the injustice and horrors around her. She states,
"I was fifteen years old when I began to hate people. I hated the white men who murdered Emmett Till and I hated all the other whites who were responsible
for the countless murders....But I also hated Negroes....for not standing up and doing something about the murders" (Moody 29). Throughout the book
the reader sees how she lives in fear at times, and in rage at others. She is fearful of the KKK which is an organization that ultimately and truly threatens
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