As the world evolves and our knowledge of our species increases, we tend to find patterns in everyday life. We make judgments based on people's behavior and self-competence. From today's biggest stars to the man behind JFK, they have a place in someone's mind for their repeated actions. In the expert words of Mr. Head, one of the protagonists of the novel The Artificial Negro, he states that he will "accomplish a moral mission by putting the boy in his place." We learn about the stressful relationship between Mr. Head and Nelson due to Nelson claiming to be incredibly intelligent leaving Mr. Head helpless as a guardian. Mr. Head manipulates Nelson into believing that they are superior to the African-American race by referring to them as "niggers", encouraging Nelson's racist personality to manifest itself, reassuring Nelson of his dependence on his grandfather. Nelson's grandfather clearly states that he wants to show Nelson "everything there is to see in a city so that he will be content to stay at home for the rest of his life." Mr. Head is a cold-hearted and conceited racist, but ironically Mr. Head needs his nephew, because they are both alone in the world. Mr. Head tells Nelson that he is aware of the "niggers" who will be in town expressing his racist judgments by referring to black people as "niggers." Mr. Head shows his nephew a black man sitting across from them on the train, thinking to himself "the thing to do with a boy is to show him everything there is to know." show. Don't hold anything back." Mr. Head passes his prejudices on to his nephew, all mistaken as a guiding force. Mr. Head got his nephew to believe that the black man sitting in front of them was a bad person. N... ... middle of paper ...... Attachment to the Negro race influenced his grandson to believe that blacks were a minority, however they are extremely dangerous and only his grandfather will protect him from the world Nelson realizes his dependence on the world Grandfather is described as a moral lesson and was intended to bring them closer, but it only drove them away from each other As a result, racism still exists today, African Americans against whites and vice versa are constantly discriminated against or ignored for the sake of race, gender or ethnicity. The society we live in today faces challenges that we have never faced before. Many people have the opportunity to attend schools, when in reality the possibilities were very slim educated to lack integrity, character, responsibility and virtue.