A Comparison of Outsiders in Their Eyes Were Watching God and Legal Ali

Outsiders in Their eyeball Were Watching God and Legal extraterrestrial being In Pat Moras poem, Legal Alien, the author describes her biracial character as being viewed by Anglos as perhaps exotic, / perhaps inferior, definitely different, / viewed by Mexicans as alien, a description which highlights the situation encountered by people who pass on to be prestigious individuals by floating between cultures and who consequently reveal to be a part of any particular group (Mora 9-11). lots the individuals are biologically trapped between two probable lives, and they mull ahead to meet the opportunity of possibly belonging to the high clubhouse while they degrade the small culture which has weaned them from birth. These people mold themselves caught up in the universal ideals of achievement and prestige, and they begin to find teddy with themselves and their backgrounds they believe that their perception of themselves must be changed and improved. They must be a par t of the group however, battle results from their selfish desires, and they are rejected by both organizations. Expressively evident in the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, the conflict within certain racial groups very much occurs when individuals of one race, blacks, strive to crowd themselves to the level of another race, whites thus, the others left behind feel as if they confirm been betrayed while the whites gaze condescendingly on the black infiltrators. The ambitious individuals often follow a course of action involving the persecution of their own fellow brothers and the acceptation of the features of their ideal, or higher, society. In trying to push herself to a level in a higher place the black folks, Mrs. Turner, a mulatto woman who is convinced of her superi... ...nt. By focusing on black society and coming into courting the failure of an ambitious, white woman, she recognizes that a higher society is not necessarily better, as evidenced by the mien Mrs. Turner attacks a weaker group of human beings. Mrs. Turner never comes remotely close to reaching the level of her white brothers, and she cuts her ties to her black neighbors so that she is at sea and living without an identity. As Mrs. Turner insults the blacks, she claims that de higher de monkey climbs de mo he show his behind, and this quotation surely seems to describe her and her situation (Hurston 136). The consequences of her prejudicial behavior deplete caused her to become an American to Mexicans/ a Mexican to Americans and nothing to herself (Mora 14-15). Works CitedHurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God. New York Perennial Library, 1990 ed.