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Anderson I Want To Know Why

Anderson: "I Want to know Why"
People become human through common experiences. The thread running through this essay clearly demonstrates the power that a shared love for horses and racing overcomes racial boundaries. The introductory paragraph with its masterly structure accounts for the story's gripping power. The narrator brings us vividly into the story as "we got up at four in the morning, that first day in the east". He and his friends "with the true instinct of Kentucky boys had found our way across town and to the race tracks and stables at once". The love of horses, as the narrator tells us is that "everyone in our part of Kentucky who is anyone at all, likes horses". Certain ...

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It's a foolish thing to say, but that's the way I am about being round horses, just crazy, I can't help it". Young people are ambitious, regardless of color and the similarities in taste demonstrates the similarity of persons of all races.
Disappointed dreams and fantasies play an important role in the theme of shared love. As the young narrator so painfully writes "when I was ten years old and couldn't be a rider I was so sorry I nearly died". The black boys in contrast cannot dream of riding a winner but demonstrate their love as stable boys caring for the thoroughbreds. "I would like to be a stable boy, but had to give that up too. Mostly niggers do that work."
On the big horse farms, when the horses are led out "you sit on a fence with men, whites and niggers, and chew tobacco and talk, and then the colts are brought out." The picture of a shared experience of watching beautiful animals. Love and beauty can rescue ordinary lives. The narrator convinces himself that he can ...

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Added: 8/28/2007 05:46:34 PM
Category: English
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