Revolt of The Evil Fairies

   In the face of discrimination, the protagonist has to fight for his dream. In Revolt of the Evil Fairies  by Ted Poston. The protagonist wants to be Prince Charming, he has to fight for the role of Prince Charming. He would do anything to be Prince Charming. Ted Postons story shows us to be determined and stand up for ourselves.

   The protagonist reveals that, “most of the good fairies usually turned out to be extremely light in complexion, with straight hair and white folks feature. On rare occasions a dark skin girl may be lucky enough to be a good fairy.” What Ted Poston(the author) is really trying to say is that teachers gave the speaking role and the better parts to the light skin girls/boys. This means it will be rare if he gets the part of Prince Charming. This teaches the readers that not even how hard you desire to get what you want, you may not get it. Even if you work really hard on what you want. In this story is because you’re a dark skin.

    Another quote that I found was, “there wasn’t any doubt that Prince Charming and Sleeping Beauty were always light skin.” This means that the protagonist would never be get a chance to be Prince Charming. There’s a girl name Sarah Williams that the protagonist likes. However, Sarah got to be Sleeping Beauty. The protagonist wants to be even more Prince Charming, because he wants to kiss her. Ms. Laprade the teacher would never give a good part to a colored skin kid, even if he gets good grades and well behave. I know this because he is a colored skin, at that time period there was segregation and discrimination. So Ms. Laprade would not give the good parts to a colored skin kid.

  In the piece it says that Leaonardius got the part for Prince Charming. Leonardius  is a yaller. A yaller has the best of everything because they are light skin. The teachers try to sense his resentment, they said that I was good at being an evil fairy. Leonardius is also in love with Sarah, he gets more jealous that Leonardius gets to kiss Sarah but him because he is colored skin.

   “They wouldn’t let me appear in the grand dramatic offering next year. But I didn’t care I wouldn’t have been Prince charming anyway.” This means that he doesn’t care, he stands up for himself, saying that he just doesn’t want to be Prince Charming. And it’s okay for him. At the beginning he wanted to be Prince Charming really bad. But later on he notice that he would never get pick to be Prince Charming because he’s a colored skin. So he said to himself I can’t be forcing myself to be prince charming because I would never get the part. In my opinion this shows you to stand up for ourselves even if we don’t get what we want