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A 3 pages essay that summarize and analyzes Ernest Gaines' short story "The Sky is Gray," which is a coming-of-age narrative for a young man growing up in the segregated, prejudicial South of the early 1960s. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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the segregated, prejudicial South of the early 1960s (Ernest Gaines). While Gaines physically left Louisiana when he was fifteen, he found that, as an author, he wanted to write about
the way that his family lived and what their life was like because he "didnt see it in any books that I had read" (Ferris). In this work, James, the
oldest son of a poor black family, records what it was like to travel to the city Bayonne with his mother in order to have a tooth extracted. The circumstances
of this journey, what James sees, feels and hears, deeply affects him and marks his passage into manhood. The beginning of the story gives background on both James and
his family. James indicates that being the oldest son, particularly in the absence of his father who is in the army, requires a high standard of behavior. He tells the
reader, "I cant ever be scared and I cant every cry" (Gaines 70). Because of this standard, James does not mention his toothache. Nevertheless, his pain becomes obvious and his
mother carefully considers the expense of taking James into town to have it pulled. James indicates how deeply he loves his mother. He fantasizes repeatedly throughout the story about picking
enough cotton over the next summer to buy her a new coat. However, it is also clear that his mother feels compelled to hold James to a hard standard of
maturity, which does not include overt signs of affection or other signs of what might be interrupted as weakness. James realizes the rationale behind her seeming hardness, "Suppose she had
to go away like Daddy went away?...They had to be somebody left to carry on" (Gaines 74). Braving the bitter cold, James relates the conversations that he hears while
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