In this excerpt, which character does the author use the
most to summarize and develop the theme that
inequality is destructive?
Read this excerpt from The Land.
"I hate folks thinking of me as white and you colored," he
went on. "Wish folks thought of us as the same."
"Which the same?" I questioned. "White or colored?"
"Don't matter to me," said Robert without hesitation,
"long as we were the same."
"I figure it'd matter you had to live colored awhile."
Robert was silent to that, then reluctantly agreed.
"Maybe so... but I'll tell you something, Paul. You don't
feel no different to me than Hammond or George. I hate
folks saying that word 'half brother. How can you be
"half of a brother? Either you're brothers or you're not."
"Well," I decided, "that's just the way things are."
O
George
O Hammond
Paul
O Robert