Summary Of 'Middle Passage' By Captain Falcon
The Last Hour of History Due to the Reality of Captain Falcon’s Dream
In “Middle Passage” by Charles Johnson, Captain Falcon describes a dream of his that sounds absolutely crazy and out of his world, but one that is rather familiar to our world today (145). The parallels between the things that he sees in his dream and the reality of the world today are precise up to every sentence that he describes. The author touches on equality of religion, disease, modern day slavery, poverty, homelessness, and the LGBTQ community in a way that shows how incredibly different the world was in the 1800’s compared to the world in the 2000’s. Falcon describes a vision that has come true in our world today, one that may be the last hour of history.
Falcon’s dream is not a dream at all and rather is the reality of the future at that time. On page 145, Falcon begins to talk about …show more content…
He further describes his dream as “whole generations of white children who’ll be strangers, if not slaves, in their own country” (Johnson 145). Not just white children, but children of all colors are thrown into a world full of poverty, where they may have to start working at an age as early as nine years old in order to try to feed themselves, becoming slaves to society and their jobs. Family members who slave day and night at a factory job, working 80 hours a week, just so they can support themselves and the children that they brought into the world. Children going to college and slaving away doing homework just so they can attempt to obtain a decent job when they get older. He continues with “People living in alleyways” (Johnson 145), where today you can go into almost any big city and find hundreds of homeless people living on the street and in actual alleyways because they no longer can find a roof to put over their heads. He describes a time where “Sexes and races were blurred. I saw riots in cites” (Johnson 145). Where in our society today there
In “Middle Passage” by Charles Johnson, Captain Falcon describes a dream of his that sounds absolutely crazy and out of his world, but one that is rather familiar to our world today (145). The parallels between the things that he sees in his dream and the reality of the world today are precise up to every sentence that he describes. The author touches on equality of religion, disease, modern day slavery, poverty, homelessness, and the LGBTQ community in a way that shows how incredibly different the world was in the 1800’s compared to the world in the 2000’s. Falcon describes a vision that has come true in our world today, one that may be the last hour of history.
Falcon’s dream is not a dream at all and rather is the reality of the future at that time. On page 145, Falcon begins to talk about …show more content…
He further describes his dream as “whole generations of white children who’ll be strangers, if not slaves, in their own country” (Johnson 145). Not just white children, but children of all colors are thrown into a world full of poverty, where they may have to start working at an age as early as nine years old in order to try to feed themselves, becoming slaves to society and their jobs. Family members who slave day and night at a factory job, working 80 hours a week, just so they can support themselves and the children that they brought into the world. Children going to college and slaving away doing homework just so they can attempt to obtain a decent job when they get older. He continues with “People living in alleyways” (Johnson 145), where today you can go into almost any big city and find hundreds of homeless people living on the street and in actual alleyways because they no longer can find a roof to put over their heads. He describes a time where “Sexes and races were blurred. I saw riots in cites” (Johnson 145). Where in our society today there