Submission Or The Drop Of A Fi
"I shivered, looking toward the street, where up the alley through the tunneling dark, three mounted policemen loomed beneath the circular, snow-sparkling beam of the street lamp, grasping their horses by their bridles, the heads of both men and animals bent close, as though plotting; the leather of saddles and leggings shining. Three white men and three black horses. Then a car passed and they showed in full relief, their shadows flying like dreams across the sparkle of snow and darkness. And, as I turned to leave, one of the horses violently tossed its head and I saw the gauntleted fist yanked down. Then there was a wild neigh and the horse plunged off in the dark, the crisp, frantic ...
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the recurrent instances that stare into his blinded view. The above passage is not a particular episode in the novel, yet rather a metaphorical representation of a main theme: control versus rebellion. It also acts as a foreshadowing for the latter section of the novel, as well as a summation for the entire account in general.
At this particular point in the novel, the narrator is just getting into the Brotherhood and is about to take part in his first rally with his brothers. He is not yet in tune with the control they hold over him and will soon start to exercise; he is still naïve in thinking that the Brotherhood is indeed a "brotherhood." Early on before even joining the organization, he was given an idea as to what the Brotherhood stood for, as is evident by Brother Jack's comment to him during their first meeting, "And sometimes the difference between individual and organized indignation is the difference between criminal and political action" (pg 293). Brother Jack ...
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as readers still discern the picture of the men riding the horses, which keeps them still above the animals, maintaining the impression that the blacks are being ridden and governed by their white superiors; when they are "plotting" with the whites, they are actually being talked down to, an image which fails to register to the narrator in viewing the men atop the beasts. Like the horses, the narrator is simply one who carries out commands and orders, one such example coming from when Brother Jack says, "You are to get back there and take measures to regain our strength in the community" (pg 421). Brother Jack isn't planning anything with the narrator; rather he is ordering him to fulfill ...
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