The Glorious Whitewasher

In the 1800’s the united states youth were independent kids, working on chores all day. They were also surrounded by racism, and how people who acted different were treated different. This Phenomenal short story The Glorious Whitewasher, teaches the reader about the effects of racism, and how even the smartest of children can be deceitful.
While Tom Sawyer was whitewashing the fence, a young man came strolling gallantly down the old brick road, his name was Ben. Ben was bored and even thought Tom was too, Ben thought that Tom must have been having way more fun. When Tom realized this, being the intelligent young man he is, mad his job seem much harder than it really was by telling him he was not good enough to paint the fence. It seems like all the other kids in the neighborhood thought that Tom was having fun too because they all came to paint the fence. When I am really bored the things that are not fun look so much cooler than what I’m doing.
When someone sees a new kid in school they might want to walk over and say hi, but stop to think, will people make fun of me if I’m seen hanging out with the new kid. That is how tom must have felt when he saw that nice black man walking down the road. Because in his time they were very racist to people of different religions or colored skin tones. This short story can relate to Papa’s Parrot when Harry the papa’s son, starts to avoid his dad when he was talking to the Parrot he got. I have also started to avoid my parents in public because I am embarrassed to be seen with them. This short story refreshes the old saying, you don’t know someone until their true colors show.
Racism has gone along way and as children get smarter they become more intolerant, as shown is this short story The Glorious Whitewasher. This is a great story that makes you think about how you would like to raise your children. When Tom made the kids give him things to paint the fence, I don’t think that his aunt would have approved of that. That is just one great example of what kids do when their parents are not around.