What does the story jamaican fragments reveal about the racism.does it relly exist in the story
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In the prose ‘Jamaican fragment’ the author A L Hendricks says how prejudice misleads the
person opinion. This incident happened in author’s life. He depicted it very nicely. Every
day the narrator used to walk half-mile from his home to railway track in the morning and
evening. The walk was pleasant to him because of the red and green-roofed bungalows, green
lawns and garden on the either side and it was a good exercise. One morning the narrator
noticed two little boys playing in the garden. One was black and another was white. The
narrator observed the children. The black boy was 5 years and the white boy was a little
lesser may be 4 years old. The white boy was shouting and commanding the black boy.
Whatever the white boy ordered, the black boy did the same. The narrator was also a
Jamaican black man. He was puzzled within himself. Hundreds of questions came into his
mind. The children were very small, really they were infants. At the very small age how
could they discriminate? Who were they? Was black boy a servant’s son? Who was he? They
wore same type of dress. Were they neighbours or play mates? Whoever might be? Were
they, as a race really inferior that even in their infancy they realized their deficiencies and
accepted a position as the white man’s servant? The author went on asking these questions to
himself for a whole day. His faith in his people was shaken. He didn’t find the boys in the
afternoon. Again he thought deeply. The next morning he found the boys and observed them.
To his surprise, the dark boy was commanding and the white boy did everything. Then the
narrator understood that it was a game and he remembered what he played in his childhood.
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