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Sometimes people struggle their whole life from the activities done by the society they live in. First of all, in the novel Beloved, the way the protagonist Sethe and her family were treated by their society could be a magnificent example to witness how people struggle because of their society. In the novel, the story took place in Cincinnati, Ohio where Sethe lived in her mother-in-law’s house with her daughter Denver. They started living there since Sethe escaped the slave house in Kentucky. This happened more than twelve years ago. However, Sethe’s departure to the house in Ohio brought nothing but misery because from then, no neighbors or no friends came to their house to visit them. Although they had a violent ghost in that house, the neighbors did not come near the outside yard and talk to them. Some individuals make themselves as introverts by not talking to the people in their society and just live their own lives. However, in Sethe’s perspective, they were forced to become introvert because they knew that other people would not talk to them or visit them. The daughter of Sethe named Denver did not have any friends in her whole life. She was always lonely and felt shy to share the feelings she had in her mind. She suffered from being lonely because she had no friends to talk, no relatives to meet, or no neighbors to ask about how they were doing. As a result, Denver would sometime go to the front door of their house and wait for someone to come and visit her. However, she never witnessed anyone approaching towards her to visit her. For Twelve years, long before Grandma Baby died, there had been no visitors of any sort and certainly no friends. No colored people. Certainly no hazelnut man with too long hair and no notebook... ... middle of paper ... ... sit in a corner or another area of that same transport. All these evidences show how African American people struggled because of their society created few anti-black laws which made their lives horrifying. Discrimination theory is used to demonstrate this situation where the dominant culture was not including another culture because of the cultural differences. White people being the hegemony always dominated the black people through all kinds of aspects. Marxist theory can be used as well to illustrate the situation of the African American people. By being the bourgeoisie of the society, the white people were controlling the black people who were the proletariat of the society. In a nutshell, some acts performed by societies can make the lives of few individuals miserable as they struggle to survive the acts. Works Cited http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/what.htm

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