The Realities of Slavery and the Black Movement as Reflected in August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone

marvelous Wilson is a grand influencewright and this puke be proved by his numerous caprioles. However, more than than being a great gypwright, August Wilson is a great adult male who had the capability to make the world see the genuineity behind the African slavery. In this paper, wizard of August Wilsons play will be study through the historical context of which the slavery is involved. Joe food turners hump and Gone is a very gripping play which shows the drama and the reality of life at the same cartridge clip which is sometimes what literature should be all combat-ready or what literature is trying to depict.Literature has been known to record and to dish up as a witness to the various dramatic and historical events of life. The pattern of whether literature is rattling a record in itself can be also true since authors, novelist, and poets alike concord been either inspired by the events that argon happening around them or want to record the unc issueh reali ties and brutalities brought by creation and by Nature and to Man and to Nature. Thus, it is not so-called why literature has made so much impact in the lives of globey pile as it enables them to be inspired by what they examine or what they ar seeing.Sometimes, literature is still able to reflect the entirely being of a person or as a reverberate to a square nations dreams and ambitions. August Wilson was able to do both his poems and plays are able to reflect his personality while at the same time showing the rest of the world the realities of the harsh slavery brought to African-Americans. The roughly rattling(prenominal) thing most August Wilson is the fact that the actual slavery or the actual moments of brutalities are left hand to the imagination of the readers or viewers what the auditory sense is looking into are the after-effects of slavery and discrimination.The actual scenes are not lay in the play what is present is the psychological state of the cha racters as they stiff about living in their respective milieus? What is more is that the actual environment of the play is in itself a character. This is the case in August Wilsons play, Joe Turners Come and Gone. A Brief Overview of Joe Turners Come and Gone The play in its entirety is very enthralling both in its complexity and simplicity. It seems that thither is no one central and main character that the audience is to decide who the real protagonist and antagonist are in the play is the cause of the complexity.not realizing that it was one person all throughout as it would be lonesome(prenominal) revealed at the actual end or culmination of the play is what makes it in truth simple. Joe Turners Come and Gone begins in the small town of Pittsburghs Hill which is actually the place of birth of August Wilson. This is very significant as the empyrean contains a very rich and diverse racial background which contri besideses to the geological formation of the personality of th e playwright as well as the personalities (or their lack of) of the characters of his play.Nonetheless, the play concentrates on the race of the African-Americans and the aftermath of the slavery they experienced. It opens with a couple by the name of band and Bertha Holly who are arguing over a exotic man by the name of Bynum Walker. Bynum is a traditional African man who still practices the customs and thus earning the spite of Seth since Bynum kills the pigeons for his rituals. Seth owns a rental place wherein visitors can rent rooms, and Bynum is one of those renters. The play progresses with the emotional stateer of publish Loomis and his daughter and Zonia who are in search of Martha, prognosticates wife, and Zonias mother.Martha supposedly left when Joe Turner, a brutal and notorious man, got to annunciate Loomis and enslaved him. The arrival of communicate becomes the throttle as the turn of events happens. There are other characters in the play as well, precisely betoken and his story are what is the most important. Seth initially does not trust betoken, but later on learns that Herald is actually unable to do things normally like talking, relating, and forming relationships with people because of what happened to him in the past.As the play progresses, the audience or readers soon discover that Herald once managed Joe Turner a very ruthless man who enslaves Africans or African-Americans. Because of this, Herald lost his personality as a character and his whap patriotism for his culture and country. In fact, during one Bynums rituals, the renters of Seth gather and unitedly sing the juba. Herald gets enraged by this, and it is in this scene that Bynum informs him that Herald has lost his song.Of course, this has extreme significance as the Africans are very dexterous people and would perform many a(prenominal) songs and dances in their rituals and traditions. Thus, if Herald loses his song, then it could exclusively mean that he has lost his heritage, and this is most likely due to what Joe Turner has done to him. Later on, Martha, Heralds wife, returns and begs him to welcome Jesus since it is through Jesus that Herald would be able to forgive, live, and hold his missing song. However, Heralds becomes angry at this and lashes out that no Jesus or god has come to his aid when he needed a Jesus or a god.In Heralds anger, he hurts himself and bleeds. With this furious act of in ten-spottionally hurting himself, Herald announces that he has freed himself and last finds his own song. He leaves the rental place and the people behind, and thus, the play ends. The Man Behind the Play In Mary Bogumils book entitled sagaciousness August Wilson, we are given a brief account of August Wilsons past as well as the things that throw a commission inspired him. nigh important to mention is his participation in the Black Movement. In fact, his plays serve as a proof to this.August Wilsons ten plays which symbolize the ten decades of the slavery brought to Africans and African-Americans are full of suffering, pain as well as redemption of the characters. The Black Movement can be considered as the contradict of the African-Americans for equality and moreover is for respect. It is a well known fact that they lead suffered tremendously when it comes to slavery and discrimination. The time of the early 90s has been times of misery for them but they pay back endured greatly. A person can only imagine what could have happened even before that.One great and terrible account is the renowned Middle Passage. According to the Resource Bank, the Middle Passage was considered as one of the most terrible things that happened to the Africans. They were treated as commodity and were forcefully brought to the shores of the westmost to become as slaves. From the moment that they were bought by the English or by the Americans, the start of their turmoil began. As they travel to the West they are deprive of basic rights such as sleeping quarters, sufficient food and pee and care.In fact, during the Middle Passage, a lot of Africans died due to sickness. Many would undertake to starve themselves so they would not endure the hardships anymore. However, the English or Americans (depending on who bought them) would force them to eat as they want slaves who would serve them or slaves whom they can sell. This continued for many years, thus the connotation that Africans were inferior or low-lifes started as they were transported as slaves. Once they reach the shores of the West, more suffering awaits them as they are poorly treated by the White Americans or the English.This occurrence could have been one of things which have awakened August Wilson to the unjust treatment of the unclouded people to the Africans or African-American. As the mother of August Wilson is an African, it is ingrained that she would have history or know the real story of what happened to Africans. Because of this August Wilson became an active advocate and pioneer for the rights and for the fight of the African nation. However, this fight would be enormous and enduring as the Africans or African-Americans would suffer and be miserable in the hands of the white people for many years.In fact, even in the modern times that society experiences today, there are still many African-Americans, even Hispanics and Asians who suffer discrimination tremendously. Considering the fact that President Barrack Obama has won, there is still a tantamount of discrimination experienced by many people. The Beliefs and Principles of the Peoples Playwright as Reflected in the Play As such, it is only natural that August Wilson who was dubbed as the Peoples Playwright by James Keller would naturally be inspired by his heritage and what other races has done to his people.He is dubbed as the peoples playwright not because he is very famous for his numerous plays but because his plays served as the eyes, ears, and voices of the people. What he has done is to say what the people are feeling, to makes others feel what they have felt and most of all, to make others people see that there was injustice done which has been imprinted into the hearts and souls of the African race. When Kim Pereira wrote a book about August Wilson is in a voyage or in an odyssey because of the plays that he wrote, it is both true and false.August Wilson did went to a voyage to discover his grow but most of all, the voyage he has were together with other people of the African race who have felt and experienced what he has compose about. Conclusion The greatest thing about August Wilson and the play is the fact that the play in itself is a declaration that he is proud of his African heritage, even if he had to go to a voyage just to find it. This voyage or journey of August Wilson is by no heart and soul an actual adventure. This voyage is more historical, mental, psychological and personal all at the same time.August Wilso n had to reconnect with the actual events that have happened in the past so the characters can have their own personality and history. However, more than bringing strain and personality to his character, August Wilson is making means for them to find their own voices which was the on the whole point of the play as it is the climactic and dramatic theme of the whole work. That the character of Herald Loomis is unable to have any character at all is what the whole play was driving at.As according to Bynum Walker, Herald has lost his song (Wilson, p. 73) which could also translate to a persons being. In fact, Herald was so affected by what has happened to him that he cannot function normally. In conclusion, the play does indeed show August Wilsons belief and principles in an implicit way one has to only look at the character of Herald Loomis and support that more than finding his own personal song, he symbolizes the unearthing of the Africans yearning for freedom, redemption, forgi veness, and most of allacceptance.