"The Child by Tiger" by Thomas Wolfe is a short story based around a black man, Dick Prosser and the environment of the South. Though the story isn't based on primarily based on racial issues, there is a great deal of tension between the blacks and the whites.
Dick endures racial oppression as a black man in a white community. One example of tension between the two races shown in the story is when Dick has to sit outside of the white church during services. This separation makes the strain of being accepted even harder. He was an incredible black man that had many talents most blacks didn'…
