IN THE KITCHEN BY HENRY LOUIS GATES

In the Kitchen by Henry Louis Gates

In the Kitchen by Henry Louis Gates

Critical Analysis

In the story In the Kitchen, Henry Louis Gates Jr. makes the issue that there are some things that you just will not take away from persons, for example character traits and people's modes of life. Those are things that you will not eliminate no issue how much "hair grease" you put in your life. When Gates was a juvenile young man, he would watch his mother manage the people's hair in their kitchen and would wonder at how the black person's hair would habitually proceed back to the monarchs no issue how good it looked when it was finished up, when it strike the water, it went right back to the kinks. The kitchen in Gates' mother's dwelling was furthermore an enduring, irredeemable kink. When a black individual would level their hair, when they cleaned it or even got water on their hair, it would proceed back to the natural kink that it began at (John, 1999). Many persons in life trial to overlook their backdrop or where they came from and disregard their origins, but that is a part of you that you will habitually have with you and no issue how much you trial and make it proceed away, your origins are a enduring thing and cannot ever be erased. In the past 30 years, the superficialities of the world have become the predominant thing. Models are 15 pounds underweight and starve themselves to gaze like the “ideal” woman, white are trial to be and gaze like blacks, blacks trial to be and gaze like whites. There are so numerous modes in the world today that you can cover up your origins and who you are, but there ...