"Child by Tiger"essay on the short story by thomas wolfe.
..., they too treated him with respect, and they did treat him like a servant also. Dick showed the boys how to do everything. For example, he showed them how to throw a ball, kick a ball, split wood, how to shoot a gun. Everything that a young boy would want to do he showed them. Floyd says, “He showed the boys many things dear to a young boys heart.” The next treatment of racial differences was made after the car wreck. Although the wreck was not Dick’s fault, it became his fault when a white man hit him. Lon Everett, the drunken white man, got out of his car and went racing to Dick and started beating on him. Dick just stands there and takes it. He does not fight back, fighting back would have only made things worse, it could have gotten Dick killed. “The lurking evil of the seemingly tamed tiger is enforced by Dick’s angry eyes, ’shot with red,’ after he is attacked and beaten by a drunk,” says Floyd. Last but not least, the actions of the “mob” were yet another treatment of racial differences. Dick had a fight with the husband of another servant and killed him with the rifle that the boys had found. Next, Dick went berserk and kills a policeman, a grocery man, a black janitor, another policeman, and shoots at and misses a drunken judge. After three days of chasing Dick, the “mob” catches him because he ran out of bullets. By this time, Dick has done killed a total of seven men. The “mob” had literally destroyed Dick’s body. His body was “displayed” in the window of the undertaker’s shop where everyone who walked by could see it. This was kind of a sign for all of the black people showing them what would happen if they ever thought of doing what Dick did. To the “mob” it was just another ne...