Resumo de Our Nig And Preface - Harries E. Wilson

?Our Nig and Preface?
Harriet E. Wilson lived a life full of pain and humiliation. Ms. Wilson had a couple strikes against her. First off she black, and secondly she was a woman. She was ostracized because of her pale skin, but whites did not accept her because of her mixed heritage. Harriet E. Wilson lived her life in constant poverty until she married. This was a marriage of convience to Ms. Wilson, not a love match. This particular piece of literature highlighted the social stigma of being a young woman left to fend on her own. Women were thought of as troublesome if they were without a sponsor during that time.
Harriet E. Wilson did not want to shame her friends by writing about some of the painful acts that were committed against her by the wife of her master. It was as if Ms. Wilson was withholding a part of herself, because she worried more about how the people she cared about felt.
In Chapter III, Harriet E. Wilson feels the pain of rejection from her birth mother. She was given away. Ms. Wilson was just a victim of a prejudiced society. Mulatto children were not wildly accepted and the parents were not either. Harriet E. Wilson wanted to convey into writing how some children of color were treated. Ms. Wilson identified herself as strong woman. Some people speculated that she based her ?Nig? on herself. Harriet Wilson described the poverty like conditions that she was made to live in. Nevertheless, once again she used ?Nig? to relay that information about the horrid conditions of how you was treated. Ms. Harriet also recounted about the dark passage hallway that she had to go through in order to reach her sleeping quarters.
Harriet E. Wilson had written some of her narratives in secrecy. She taught herself how to read and write. Ms. Wilson was inspired by the abandonment of her mother, and the inhuman treatment that she suffered from the hands of her mistress. I think she was damaged socially by how harsh she was treated. Could you imagine how you would feel if your mother abandoned you to people that treated you like disease instead of a human being? I really felt for her when she told of how her mistress had propped a piece of wood in her mouth, because she told the truth about an incident that had happened at a stream. Harriet E. Wilson represented a lot of how black Americans felt when they were sold to people that used them for harsh labor. Ms. Wilson responded to what she was feeling about how unfair blacks were treated. She knew that society regarded her and others like a plague. However, that did not stop Harriet E. Wilson from trying to make the most of her meager life. Ms. Wilson had a spirit that could not be broken. She wanted people to know what she had gone through, but I do not think she wanted to be pitied for her struggles. Ms. Wilson just wants her story to be told.

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