Brother To Brother Essay

Daniel Chater

Period 5

Brother to Brother

Thurman and Hurston's magazine series' fate in publicity rests in the hands of a publishing company but it wants to alter their writing style that is critical to their magazine being what it is. Being that their magazine is based off reality, when a big time publisher comes along and says that he wants to make vital changes to their creation just to make it more appealing to the general public they become irritated and angry. Originally it was intended to disturb and be obscene to the general public by focusing on what the average people at the time where scared of "queers and hors" , so the notion that people are intrigued by the substance abuse, homosexuality, offensive language,sluts , and political difference to the world at the time annoyed them. This causes Arguments between there group that ended up causing massive separation between the people involved in the cause. "We, of the younger generation are like all other human beings in a period of transition, we are eternally discovering things about ourselves and our environments which our elders have been at pains to hide. They have been so busy justifying their presence in a hostile, racist environment that they've seized to be human beings. With the new magazine we will seize to look for respectability in the white persons eyes, we will express the beauty and ugliness of our individual selves, for ourselves. If anything is deemed disturbing, or pornographic then so much the better " as they set out to create an obscene magazine series, the idea of the public being repulsed by the articles as one of the positive aspects of their articles, as they figure out the public wants more focus on the nightclub aspect of the articles it there's a debate over wether or not to start doing fictional articles, which defeats the entire purpose of the project. When the publisher says "I believe that a negro writer has access' into this world that a white writer can never get to." Thurman feels confident that the minor adjustments the publisher is suggesting are not in oppose to the "truthfulness of the character", but playing up the nightclub scene and making it more "dark and menacing" is giving a fictional persona to the character that Thurman writes about.