Comparison Between Desiree's Baby And The Killers Essay

Not so long ago, slavery was a common thing. The only possible future for black people was to be a slave. They were born that way, and the only way they could avoid it was by running away and hide for the rest of their lives. It was their destiny, it wasnt seen like unfair or discrimination, it was just they way thinks worked back then.

The short story "Desiree's Baby" is a perfect example about how slaves were treated, especially in the south of United States. Wealthy families had a lot of slaves in their houses, they had to cook, clean, work in the fields, basically everything. The story describes different scenes where it shows what they were forced to do. For example when one of La Blanche's little quadroon boys was fanning Desiree's baby. This shows what black people, who were slaves, had to do. They were treated like objects, and not like people. They were an "inferior race", who's only purpose in life was to serve the white people.

"The Killers" shows a different situation. Sam is a black man, that works as a cook. The author doesnt describe him much, and although the story isnt centred on him, it's possible to say a lot about his role, and his situation as a black person in that story. While Al and Max were planning Ole Anderson's murder they bearly talk to Sam and treated him like he was nothing and called him all the time "Nigger", in a mean way, and just because he' is black.

If we compare the roles of Sam and the slaves in both short stories we can conclude that black people were treated different and were seen like inferiors. In Desiree's baby, the the best paragraph to demostrate this is the last one when the black race is describe like"the race that is coursed with the brand of slavery". The word coursed tell us that being black meant in those days.In the Killers sam isn't a slave but he is different than the rest of the characters. He talks different and his opinion isn't taken in to acount.

To conclude, both stories ilustrate how black people had to live not so long ago first as slaves and then ,though they were free, they didn't have the same oportunites as white people. Although things changed nowdays, some people still think of them as an infirior race which is something very unfair. We have to learn that the colour of the skin doesn't really matters and that we should have the same oportunites and treated as equals.