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One evening in early December 1955 I was sitting in the front seat of the colored section of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. The white people were sitting in the white section. More white people got on, and they filled up all the seats in the white section. When that happened, we black people were supposed to give up our seats to the whites. But I didn’t move. The white driver said,

5 “Let me have those front seats.” I didn’t get up.
I was tired of giving in to white people.
“I’m going to have you arrested,” the driver said.
“You may do that,” I answered. Two white policemen came. I asked of them, “Why do you all push us around,”
10 He answered, “I don’t know, but the law is the law and you’re under arrest.” For half of my life there were laws and customs in the South that kept African Americans segregated from Caucasians and allowed white people to treat black people without any respect. I never thought this was fair, and from the time I was a child, I tried to protest against disrespectful treatment.
15 But it was very hard to do anything about segregation and racism when white people had the power and the law behind them. Somehow we had to change the laws. And we had to get enough white people on our side…



1) How many characters are there in this extract ? Say what you can about each of them.
2) Is the narrator an African American or a Caucasian ? Justify your answer
3) In one sentence, explain who the word caucasian refers to
4) what particular law is mentioned in this excerpt ?
5) How does the narrator feel about this situation ? Justify by quoting from the text.
6) According to the narrator, how can segregation be banned ?

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Sagot :

1) There are four characters here: the two policemen, the narrator and the bus driver (and perhaps the white people who wanted the seat). The policemen are white, obviously, and they have absolutely no idea why the african guy must let the seats for white people but the law lead them to that. They follow the law which says he must let his seat. The narrator is an African man, who finds out it's an idiotic law. He'd rather be under arrest (and it'll happen) than give one more time to white people. The bus driver.. is a caucasian typed man, and he treats African people like trashes. Without any respect or sens of humanity, he ordered the black guy to let his seat and called the police, who arrested the man; who was absolutely not guilty in this story.
2) The narrator is, obviously, an African American : he says he must let the seats of the coloured section to the white people when they fill up their place. He also speaks of the black people with "our, us", so he really is one of the black people.
3)The word "caucasian" refers to the white people, otherwise the question 2 would be nonsense.
4) The law who says that when there is no more seats in a bus, the black people must let their seats to the white without a word.
5)The narrator feels exhasted about his situation "I was tired of giving in to white people".
6) According to the narrator, the segregation would be banned with enough white people on their side. They need them, because the law is with the white. They could help them to do something about segregation.
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