Learning to Understand The Problem we all live with

This historical painting was painted by Norman Rockwell. This painting portrays Ruby Bridges, on of the first African American children that went to a integrated school, as she walks to her school. This painting is called The Problem we all live with. This painting was painted in 1964. This painting portrays Ruby as she enters her school in the morning. She is only six-year-old She is being escorted by four white federal marshals to the school. They are walking by a wall which is painted with the words “nigger”. Behind her their is a stain in the wall of a tomato and such tomato in the floor. Also in a wall there are “K” painted in the wall, meaning the Ku Klux Klan. A detail is that only the face of the Rudy appears in the painting and the on of he escorts are cut off.

            When you see this painting you are able to see the sufferment of people that have black skin. You feel how cruel is the men, abusing on another men because they have a different pigment of skin. I felt sad and depressed, not proud of being white when I saw the pain that people of the same color of my skin made a poor six-year-old girl pass. I also feel jealous, jealous of the braveness of that poor six-year-old had. Not crying- something that I would have done is I was in her position. She was portrait strong, walking straight-backed and proud- not a sign of fear in her face. The artist is probably trying to show how bad the African Americans are treated when they claim their rights.

            In the painting the faces of the federal marshals that were accompanying Ruby were excluded, probably done to have all the attention in Ruby. I feel that the color were bright because it is telling that it is a good day because the segregation in the schools are being abolished. At the same moment the stains of tomato is showing that some people are not happy of the change that is happening. I think that this painting is made in a neutral point of view.