Amongst the host of freshly talented American dramatists is Z. Z Parker. an African American writer who is popularly known to be the maestro behind a figure of late published and extremely praised short fiction narratives across the United States. Included in one of his digests “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere” is the short narrative entitled “Brownies” which depicts the narrative about a troop of immature Black Afro-american misss and their brushs and personal experiences with respect to hardships of societal favoritism in the full American State.
Therefore. the book depicts and illustrates both of the different faces of the society which is that of the good and awful side. more particularly in the full society of the United States wherein there is an apparent divergency between the white and black people. In a sense. it is seen obvious that the narrative is basically set to foreground and edify one of the major societal jobs in the full American society in both antediluvian and modern yearss. which is that of the racial prejudices and/or favoritism among the Black Afro-american people.
Therefore. the narrative besides aims to give a image of the pessimistic effects of such societal differences between the American group of white and the black. For case is the inauspicious incident wherein the troop of black Afro-american misss and the opposite colour have collide and involved their egos into an atrocious bash in response to the act of racial favoritism coming from the group of white misss.
Therefore. such illustration is an illustration as to how the author has utilized the specific state of affairss to picture the atrociousnesss and cynicism that societal favoritism incorporates in the society. On the other manus. it is besides good represented that the society is made of both negative and positive impressions wherein the people populating in this universe are all situated to see both of the good and bad sides of the society.
Through the narration of one of the black Afro-american misss in the narrative. whose name is Laurel. she portions the narrative of her father’s brush with a white household and recalls the minute her male parent said that. “It was the lone clip he’d have a white adult male on his articulatio genuss making something for a black adult male for free” ( 30 ) . It is so an apparent manner of the author to equilibrate her word picture of the two faces of society which is that of the good and bad. In the terminal. it is apparent that such book of Z. Z.
Parker entitled “Brownies” is socially prearranged to picture and discourse the jobs of society. more specifically in the United States. where Americans are seen to be alienated by this societal difference and favoritism. Therefore. the short narrative “Brownies” is so a paradigm of an outstanding socially important narrative that presents valuable lessons for the readers and for the full society. Work Cited Packer. ZZ. “Brownies. ” In Drinking Coffee Elsewhere. New York. New york: The Berkley Publishing Group. 2003.
