Walter Mosley
Critical Analysis of Walter Mosley
"You have the right to remain silent. Anything you do or say may be used against you in a court of law." Although no one wants to hear these words, they are words that are known across the country and are uttered every day. Walter Mosley takes this concept of "by the book" law enforcement and jazzes it up in The Devil in a Blue Dress, a novel based on Ezekiel Rawlins, a character stuck between the struggle of enforcing the law or engaging into criminal activity. Rawlins is content with life itself, as long as the whit majority does not surround him. Even though Mosley's writing breaks color barriers, it also takes on racial motifs that emerged during post World War II Los Angles.
In Walter Mosley novels, the author tackles racism head on. As Mosley's main character Ezekiel Rawlins, or better known by his nickname of Easy, takes his journeys through Los Angles, he notices people only by color and not by character or other traits. Easy says,......
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