A Painted House

In the book "A Painted House" by John Grisham, people of different races are treated differently. This might have to do with the fact that it is the 1950's. As everyone knows, people were treated differently in the past based on their race. But in this story, black people are being beaten up. Also, the mexicans and the black people are being treated as dirt. They have to work for a living by picking cotton. They earn one dollar and sixty cents for each one hundred pounds of cotton they pick. The mexicans arrived to the farm in one small truck. There were 60 of them crammed in a little truck.

In the story, the women seemed disgraced at the way these poeple were being treated. For example, when the mexicans arrived in the crammed little truck, Luke's mother was furious with the people that sent them. Last year, they did the same thing and she asked them to send the mexicans in a big roomy bus. But they ignored her. Also, she brings the minorities a lot of vegetables from her garden. She is really nice too the less fortunate people and feel bad for them.

I think back into the story and I now realize how much the world has changed. Now, minorities are being treated a lot more human-like as opposed to being treated like dirt as they have been in the past. Although they are being treated dealt with more fairly in life they are still being mistreated.