Reading African-American literature

 Lately I've read two books about African-Americans；one was in Chinese(English bookname “Gathering of waters”   and the other was in English. Both stories based on the age of early 1900s when vlack people had already been freed from slavery yet still suffering from serious descrimination especially down in the south part of the USA and the stories took place in Missisipi. The two books were written in different styles, though they were both fictions. “Gathering of waters" foucused on the ghost of a whore who took over others' bodies to revenge on the men dumping her. She caused miseries along the way she went. At last, a kind, young black man was brutally torture and killed by her and the man's name was Emett Till, about whom John Lennon even wrote a song. Emett was from Califonia, where liberty of black was guaranteed and their spirits and bodies were free. But in the south, where he was visiting his family, white people still lived apart from the black; they scorned the black; the marriage or romance between black and white were unthinkable. The whole story was told by Mony, the town where the tragedy happened. He talked slow, and the words were well chosen, expressing slight but obvious sorrow. Gathering of the waters is what Missisipi means in Indian but at the same time,I think it also means the place is filled with tears for all sad incidents occurred. It's the kind of book which leaves you silent after finishing; I wonder how people could be so cruel and pathetic to be seerated by colors, I feel sorry for all people who suffered and are suffering from the ignorance and arrogance of others and I am ashamed that sometimes I know I am being the ones who think I'm born better than others.
"The help" was adapted to movie and I have seen it before reading. It's more enjoyable because its scene was bright and the story was encouraging and full of hope. A writer, Skeeter persuaded two maids into revealing their own stories and they made change beginning from a whisper. There was no killing in the story but the strength rooted in black women, the effort young white female dedicated to the liberty and the friendship among them.