Pairing Stories and Cinema by Theme of Racism.

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Pairing Stories and Cinema by Theme of Racism.

Racism is a notion in which a particular group of people are considered more inferior than others on the ground of their skin color. According to Grosfoguel (2016), incidents of racial discrimination are quite often across the globe, though the level and magnitude of discrimination vary from one region to another. Racial discrimination is very rampant in training institutions and workplaces whereby white people are given first priority compared to back skin people. The novellas heart of darkness and the poisonwood bible paired with the film in the heat of the Night depict the theme of racism at different aspects and scenarios.

The novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad highlight deeply explains how Africans receive racial discrimination from European colonists. In the novel, racial discrimination of black people by white is clearly portrayed by slave labor, forced labor unpaid labor (Achebe, 2016). The black people are assigned to perform hazardous jobs which white people do not want to execute. American is paid in term of brass which is of inferior values in Congo from where the novel was set. Besides, their health and safety are overlooked, while white man’s health is of their great concern. This is clearly highlighted soon after Marlow, and the novella main actor arrives in Congo. The white men are assigned light tasks such as maintaining trade operations while, while natives tasked with more and more risky work. Marlow notices what some men are going through: 'they are gradually dying….it is very vivid'. They are never criminals nor thugs; no one valued them but were left to suffer from disease, starve then die helplessly. Gathered from the recession of the coast in all the legality of time contract, lost in the uncongenial environment, fed on peculiar and unsafe food, they fall sick become week, and they were then permitted to craw away and rest'. In other words, the black people are not taken care off by the colonialists and are overworked until they are worn out then are send away when they cannot work anymore.

 Later, Marlow takes a huge number of black people with him to carry his commodities, and a direct comparison is seen between how the black men and white are treated. Marlow explains the scenario: ‘day in day out, with a group sixty barefooted black behind me’ (Fir chow, 2015). Marlow's comment on the death of the natives indicates how black men are less valued by the white guys. On the flip side, when his white man companion faints because of hot sun, the person is carried or kept in the shade and waited until he recovers. The different treatment between white men and natives is a clear indication of racial discrimination to the detriment of African people.