Dragon Slayers Analysis

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Jerald Walker’s short story ‘Dragon Slayers’ begins at a Christmas party where a white man says Walker should hate him and all of the white race. But Walker has a different outlook on this issue. Walker believes that he has to focus on black courage and overcoming the issues that lie ahead; not let oppressors define who he is. He refuses to fall into any sterotype and let racial slurs get the best of him. Walker advocates that Africa Americans cannot play the victim and must not turn to anger and violence. Africa Americans must realize their heratige and understand the pain and suffering but also the amazing hericotic and courage they had. Walker teaches an African American Literature course and all of his students have to agree to be black for the course of the semester. His students must try to critically think as a black individual. His course is not a typical African American course where the teachings only focus on white cruelty and their oppressers but black …show more content…

One day in class professor McPherson makes a connection between rap music and Walker’s paper and said they are both phony. He talks about how rappers are extreamly wealthy and their families are doing well but they claim they are in the streets and “hustling” to make their way through life, when in reality they are doing better than a large portion of the population. The reason he says Walker is doing the same is because he wasn’t talking about himself… he is talking about his family and their hardships, that he has not experienced. Then Walker learned one of the most important lessons that would be with him forever; that people love sterotypes, sterotypes engage a reader but once the reader is interested you have to add your own esense of you into your writing. This means as a writer you have to show the reader the real you but you have to understand yourself first. One must not base their life on the life or sterotype of

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