In all three of the summer reading books The Power of One, The Fountainhead, and the Invisible Man segregation and bias were present. In The Power of One Peekay is a white boy in an African area. In The Fountainhead Roark designs buildings that were shunned by architects. In The Invisible Man, the IM is a black man trying to fit into a white society. In two of these novels the segregation springs from skin color and racism. Peekay was made fun of and abused because he was white. The IM was used because they thought he was smart for a black man. In my Psychology class we watched a program that was done by Oprah. Everyone in her audience was convinced of the fact that people with blue eyes were not as smart as those with brown eyes. People believed this easily. The people with blue eyes were offended that they were not being treated fairly. After they found out it was an experience and not a true fact, a few of the people with blue eyes claimed they now knew what it was like to be a black person in America. Now I have to say, I do not know what it is like to be discriminated against (not to that degree anyway.) I think that you can never understand unless you live in that situation every day. These books and this experience that Oprah did are ways to get a glance at what it feels like to live the life of a discriminated person. I find it interesting that these two classes were parallel in their teachings.
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