Different Worlds

The passage I picked was in chapter five, about when Linda Brent saw the two young girls playing with each other. One of the girls was white, and the other black. They grew up together as sisters, but everything would change once they get older. The white girl’s “pathway was blooming with flowers, and overarched by a sunny day.” One day this little girl would be able to live a happy life and get married. But, the black girl would grow to be a slave. “She drank the cup of sin, and shame, and misery, whereof her persecuted race are compelled to drink.” Just because the color of her skin was different than her sister’s, their lives would be completely different. They grew up the same but the society in which they lived thought people with darker skin than them were inferior and had to serve the whites. They mistreated the black people just because of their darker pigmentation. It made me sad to think of these two children who had been best friends for all their lives until they got older and finally understood that not everything was happy and perfect anymore. Something so small ruined the girl’s entire life. Although she was just as beautiful as her light-skinned sister, she was stuck with a fate worse than death.