Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin

In John Howard Griffin 's novel "I Like Me", Griffin was a white man who underwent medical surgery and turned skin color to black to see the lives of the black people. Novels took place in the 1950s and Griffin visited the southern provinces to experience the true power of race discrimination against blacks. During this journey, Griffin stayed in Mississippi and realized the feeling of becoming black there. Due to the severity of tension, Griffin could not understand the tense level of Mississippi's racial prejudice.

This article is a review of John Howard Griffin's "Black Like Me" book. This book is the story of his journey through a deep south as a white boy (John Howard Griffin) and a black man. He traveled from New Orleans to Alabama and called for a true understanding of this issue and the reality of being black in the deep part of the South. Through medicine, thanks to flash photography ability to adapt to environmental changes, and through friends' support, he managed to become a real black man (in his heart). Griffin was impressed by the experience, I was surprised by the fact that my belief changed to reality and it turned out to be wrong. After his experiments, he had problems with his own race. John Griffin has found their true color to some people

The most important role in Black Like Me is John Howard Griffin. Griffin looks different from whites like black people. Griffin is a white muscle, the hair is very bright and quite high, but as a black Griffin is also very good to wear, again "fierce, bald, very dark". Griffin is a gentle and kind person who can do almost anything to stop racial discrimination. With Black Like Me, Griffin went to the limit. Griffin has a wife and three children. Griffin was most interested in how his friends and other white people saw him not as white but as a black man. His deepest ideas are as follows. 'When should white people become blacks in the south, what kind of adjustment must he make? How is the feeling of discrimination by skin color? Is this something you can not control? When Griffin is black, he must overcome anger or temptation to criticize others. This is necessary because whites responses are different regardless of whether men are angry or not.