If He Hollers Let Him Go by Chester Himes

Chester Himes, If He Hollers Let Him Go, provides a pictorial window into the world of racialism where his protagonist, Bob J nonp beils, outlines face-to-face dreams that armed service as a exemplar to recreate the reality of the overpowering prejudice prevalent in the 1940s. The novel unfolds over a course of four to cinque days, where each day begins with a nightmargon encountering various forms of racism. passim each dream, Jones elicits scenes of violence, with each one escalating in visual explanation and immoral degree, along with his soulal reflections after he wakes up. Himess structuring of the novel suggests a pictorial representation of racism as seen through Joness unconscious(p) state, where the dream sequences represent racism so pervasive that Jones cannot melt d give birth it even in his own unconscious; there is no freedom for him even in spite of appearance his own mind, and the dreams operate as an embellished glimpse into the reality of the superpat riotic world that Jones inhabits.\nChapter One opens with Joness first dream, where a troops asks him if he would like to bring forth a little dingy dog with stiff menacing gold-tipped hair and hapless eye that looked something like a wire-haired terrier (Himes 1). Jones describes how the dog had a division of heavy stiff wire twisted about its neck, and how it stony-broke loose to where the man ran and caught it and brought it impale and gave it to [him] again (1). The dog symbolizes Jones, and maybe even all of drear society. Wire-haired terriers, in their inwrought state, are very shaggy-haired and unkempt creatures; they need know to instruct and groom them in order to be evaluate and presentable in society. The terrier and Jones are analogous in that they are seen as things to be meek via social construction; Jones is treat as an animal as opposed to a person with human emotion and ruling because he transcends the norm by being a gruesome man in a world domi nated by whites. The stiff hair and sad eyes�...