Just Walk On By Characters

Topic: What difficulties do Kezia in “The Wedding Gift” and Brent Staples in “Just Walk On By” face as disadvantaged members of society?

There are many different people in our society, rich people, poor people, female, male, influence, and so on. Inside the society, people mostly classed in different level by their background and finances. And people who are poor and powerless will classed in disadvantaged members of the society. As disadvantaged members of the society, they need to face many difficulties and dangers situation in their life. When they face the problem, they need to do a very good decision in order to survive. Most of them are just because their background, financial and outlook; and always receive some unpleased treatments. There is a good example in the story “The Wedding Gift” and “Just Walk On By”. The character in two stories,
Kezia, the poor little girl in “The Wedding Gift”, her choices is fight back. She forsaken her meek, gave out her reputation, and did all the tricks the can help her get back her freedom. She uses the man, Black Sam, who came to pick her up to the wedding. She try to be nice to him, and when the storm come, she decided to sharing body warm with him, but not using the tinderbox to make a fire place. However, the society is not accepted this kind action, even though they did nothing, and just want to save their life. In that society, lady reputation is more important than life. For this reason, she is no longer able to get marry with others but Sam, and she reach her goal, against and get free from Mr. Barclay order. Rather than Kezia, Brent choice to solve the problem in a soft way, try to accept the justice of young black man and gave some new idea about black man to the society. As an example, he tried to warbling some popular classical composer’s songs, like Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. To show that he was not a bad person and has good