Don't Judge A Book By Its Cover

In this story the mother of Johnny, was making assumptions about her sons friend Boyd that he brought over for lunch. Mrs.Wilson was making these assumptions based on the color of his skin. Because Boyd was black she thought that he was very poor and needed as much of anything that she could offer him. When she would offer him things he was confused but didn't accept them because he didn't need them. She thought he had a life that was missing things, but he knew what he had. It wasn't any different than her life.

I think Shirley Jackson was trying to show how people act when people different from yourself don’t meet your expectation. In Colorado springs there are different parts and it is kind of separated. There are parts with neighborhoods and towns that aren't very nice and there are a lot of people of different races that live there, then there are other places where there are neighborhoods with huge houses that nowhere near there, there is old looking houses that aren't as nice. This kind of relates to this because people would assume rich people would live in the really nice place and people with not that much money would live anywhere else.  This story shows you that no matter what color someone’s skin is or where they live you can’t make assumptions about their life and how they live just by what they look like or where they are from.