Praying For Sheetrock Book Comparison

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In this essay I will introduced, compare and describe this two following books, “Meet You in Hell” written by Les Standiford, and “Praying for Sheetrock” written by Melissa Fay Greene”. In “Meet You in Hell” the problem was that the friend ship of Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick was about a betrayal that went among both men’s trough out their lifetime. In the other hand in “Praying for Sheetrock” the main point of the book is about racial discrimination something that back in McIntosh County Georgia happened so much. Both books have their own significant, as I mention one book is about a breakdown of two men’s friendship and the other book about a little county that lead to racial discrimination. But both novels gives us a short lesson of life as I will explain throughout the paper. …show more content…

Short after the civil rights movement had appear and changed the South without even growing trough this little county. What I believe and that had begun to turn things around for the County was all because of one black men named Thurnell Alston. He had confronted the people who were in charge of the factory he was working in. he did not pleased that “whites” had the satisfaction of eating and drinking cold fresh water out the refrigerator, unlike them the “black” people had to drink water out of a fountain that was not healthy for them.” The white water fountain was refrigerated, electric the water pure and cold. The black water fountain beside it offered tap water simply piped in from outside” (Greene, 43). And as he grew up he would always remembered what Sheriff Poppell said “Only way you can control the Negroes is to keep them hungry.”(Greene, 38). Tom Poppell was the man who after his father died he became the Sheriff of McIntosh County, he was the one who held the political power. He was a sheriff that would protected the black and

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