Beginning of Essay
Anderson: "I Want to know Why" People become human through common experiences. The thread running through this essay clearly demonstrates the power that a shared love for horses and racing overcomes racial boundaries. The introductory paragraph with its masterly s ....

Middle of Essay
.... "he is going all season to the races and working in the livery barn in the winter where horses are and where men like to come and talk horses, wish I was a nigger. It's a foolish thing to say, but that's the way I am about being round horses, just crazy, I can't help it". Young people are ambitious, regardless of color and the similarities in taste demonstrates the similarity of persons of all races. Disappointed dreams and fantasies play an important role in the theme of shared love. As the young narrator so painfully writes "when I was ten years old and couldn't be a rider I was so sorry I nearly died". The black boys in contrast cannot dream of ....