Revolt of the Evil Fairies

                                                            Revolt of the Evil Fairies

     In Ted Poston’s story “Revolt of the Evil Fairies”, the protagonist in the school play tried to his limit to get the one and only thing that he desired the most, to be Prince charming. This means so much to him because ever since he started the Booker T. Washington Grammar School all that was available to him was the role of the head evil fairy. After a while he noticed that the yallers (light colored blacks) were being treated better than the darker blacks. The yallers bot the better roles, and if any lucky person that was not a yaller and got a good role, they weren’t allowed to speak.  He noticed this was constant. It was not a new thing.

     But he was not only discriminated by his skin color. It was also because of his character. His family was very poor and didn’t have that much to look forward to, except for their children getting a good job. But like the yallers they had things that the nonyallers wished they had. Their character was also better. The yallers had high jobs and lives. As you can see there was not only discrimination between the blacks and whites but also in their own race. Because of this situation, it made many people indignant. But the sad thing was, they couldn’t do anything about it.

     The protagonist was so determined to get the part he wanted; nothing could stand in his way. As he says” I went out with the part with all of my heart”. Also at the end of the story, he didn’t care that he was a firebrand in the play. He was satisfied with what he did; make a mess out of things. He stood up for himself. And not just for him but for other people that felt like he did. He didn’t even worry about what he could be next year, because he knew that without a doubt, he wasn’t going to be in the play anyway.

     “I didn’t care if they wouldn’t let me in the grand dramatic offering next year, because I wouldn’t have gotten the part anyway”. This means a lot to the character because he knew that he wouldn’t have gotten the part even if he was in the dramatic offering. What’s the point of fighting for something that can never be yours no matter what you do, without going to the extreme? So all in all no matter what happened it wouldn’t have made a difference to him anyway.

     This protagonist grew so much during the course of the story that it is unspeakable. He had learned something that most people learn in their older days. But he didn’t just grow; he also learned to deal with his problems during the story. I think that this situation is such a problem that it just ended up in a non-intentional physical interaction, which is a bad concept to teach the younger.