Blog 5

Monster and Incognegro are very similar.  These two books talk about discrimination and racism and how badly it effects peoples lives, however, both of these books express it in a completely different way.  In Monster, the racism was more said "under ones breath" when Incognegro's was more outspoken and people voiced their opinions on how they felt about black people.  I feel that the conversation was created by these two novels by the attitudes of the people within the novels.  When the reader reads in Incognegro white people just hanging them for fun and tormenting them with harsh words and language, it brings up a lot of opinions as well as anger which creates someone to voice their opinion creating a conversation.  Another way a conversation was created was in Monster.  I feel that when the author never gives the reader a clear cut answer to if Steve Harmon was truly innocent creates a lot a questions and comments which create a conversation.  Both of the examples' conversations are over the topic of racism because they all have to do with peoples feelings on racism.  The theme that is shared within both of these novels is Racism for sure, but mainly the true feelings of people out there towards racism.  Both of the books relate to our conversation about power and privilege because they have to do with a dominant race (Caucasians) and the certain privileges that blacks did not have and the privileges the whites had over the blacks.