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Deepening Essay Martin Luther King once said, “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” King’s idea is relevant to the various texts in the sense that gender and race play a large role in how people perceive one another. Whether or not it is fair does not matter as that is a separate topic entirely, but this is a serious issue that is present even today. The main characters in the texts Susan Sontag’s “Woman’s Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source?”, Joan Didion’s “On Self-Respect”, and James Baldwin’s “Stranger in the Village” have all experienced to varying degrees some sort
In Sontag’s text, for example, women are perceived to be a sex object and that has been a serious impediment to their standing within society while in Didion’s text, she describes the main character trying to find the balance of respect for others and for herself. Finally, Baldwin describes a character that is struggling to fit into a “white man’s” society. All of these texts and ideas allude to how there are many prejudices present in society that cause people to judge one’s character based upon factors that they cannot completely control. In James Baldwin’s “Stranger in a Village”, Baldwin describes racism and its origins. He sees and feels racism in the village when he writes, “But there is a great difference between being the first black man to be seen by whites. The white man takes the astonishment