The black Americans’ identity

The black Americans’ identity

The black Americans’ identity had a significant impact on their human aspect of love. The novel reveals how Monk had trouble and challenges of making healthy and long-lasting relationships. He had a rough and un-peaceful relationship with a woman whose name was Linda. They experienced an unsatisfying sexual relationship. The primary cause for the troubles in his life was his stubborn and arrogant demeanour. More so, the issue of black identity seems to cut across all in matters concerning love. Lisa is the sister to the author of the novel, Monk. Lisa has also experienced difficulties in her love life, just like her brother. Monk tells us that Lisa has broken up with her boyfriend.

Similarly, Bill has experienced divorce with his wife because of his identity of homosexuality. Monk takes her mother to a retirement home because of her condition. He meets with a lady that lived close to a professor that Monk new. The developed an intimate relationship that led to them falling in love. However, the author does not take us far to tell us how the relationship ended. Most probably, he does not want to talk of it because it did not work well in his part.

On the contrary, Monk’s housekeeper takes advantage of when Monk leaves to make a mother to a retirement home. The storekeeper takes the opportunity to marry. The issue of love based on identity brings about the point of family issues. Monk must be flexible enough to balance his profession, taking care of his mother, and playing the role of a big brother in his family. There is more responsibility on Monk after the death of his sister, Lisa. This means that Monk was left with more responsibility of taking care of their ageing mother. This became worse because his mother’s condition was getting from bad to worse, and she needs close attention than before. The novel presents the kind of relations where Monk did not move along well with his brother and sister. The reason for this was because of some sort of favouritism that Monk received from his parents. It explains one of the main issues that take place daily in society.

Monk was able to share his real name with very few artists. The artist had one thing in common in that they were all from the African-American fraternity. He does not want to get associated with anything to do with the so-called African-American art. When he creates the parody of a particular novel that addressed such issues, Monk was careful enough to distance himself from the book. He was even reluctant to have his name on the book. As if it is not enough, Monk has doubts and tension about his book winning the nominations. He even gets confused when his book is read out to be the winning book. He is confused about his identity at sometimes because Monk does not know the boundaries between his real personality and that Monk took from writing the parody. He has to be reminded that he is different even when around his own family. The experiences of injustices by his people hang so attached in him. This makes his writing get so attached to his interests because of the status of the African-American community.

Monk is an individual of high intellectual ability and understanding. The combination makes him a great writer. He even gets several compliments about his genius work on Greek mythology. However, the qualities happen to deter him from success in the community. He loses his success to part of the society that has none of the above attributes, and this opens Monk’s inner eyes and understanding. He realizes that success is not about wisdom, knowledge and intellectual capabilities. It is about knowing and practising the stereotypic concepts of racism in the community. The most successful writers had a good mastery of these concepts. As a person of black identity, the failure of acknowledging these concepts narrowed down the size of the market for your books. The reason is that a writer who did not discuss racism lost the market for the white community. An example of this scenario is demonstrated by the case of Juanita Mae Jenkins, who gets very successful for writing racist themes in his work. His work also contains elements of prostitution, unplanned pregnancies for underage and violence. All the issues mentioned there before targeted the life and experiences of the African-Americans. Monk also gets to taste some success in the industry when he writes a parody of Jenkens’ book.

The novel has achieved quite a lot in describing the experiences of the writers associated with the African-American people in the United States. They have a lot of challenges when narrating their life experiences in the world. Their work is not taken seriously as the work from white writers who write to mock the African-American writers and their community at large.