Themes+-+The+Black+Madonna

// Writing Assignment: // // Identify the main themes of the story. Then select two themes and briefly explain how each is depicted in the story. Support your ideas with at least one quote from the text for each of the themes you select. Be sure to include page numbers for each quote. //

The main theme of the short story "The Black Madonna" is hypocracy: It`s about people pretending to be someone they are not. It`s about what`s behind the fassade when the fassade crumbles and finally breaks down. Because then you find the real person, their real views- usually the opposite of what the person pretended to be.

In our Story it`s Lou and Raymond Parker, who play the role of the perfect, open-minded and modern, but religious American couple.They have friends from all classes of society, they even have black friends: Oxford and Henry. to the outside they are politically correct-they always correct their friend when they call s.o. "darkie" or "nigger". But when Lou gets pregnant and gives birth to a black girl, she and her husband reject to keep it because it's black: "The baby is black and nothing can make it white". (pg.162)

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