Walter Mosley

Walter Mosley is one of the most adaptable and admired writers in America today. He is the writer of a lot serious acclaimed books, including his major bestselling mystery series Easy Rawlins. His work has been translated into twenty-one languages that includes, his fiction, science fiction, political monographs, and a young adult novel. His short fiction has been widely published, and his nonfiction has appeared in "The New York Times Magazine and The Nation”, among other publications. He is the

In my opinion, a book is always a better choice for entertainment then a movie. Usually, when a book is adapted into a movie; the movie always seems to omit scenes and details mentioned in the book. This is the same with Walter Mosley’s Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned; a novel that tells a story surrounding a man named Socrates Fortlow. However, while the movie version of Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned follows the same concept as the book there are substantial differences in terms of events

Walter Mosley continuously points out social issues that plague many disadvantaged communities. He affirms this in the following quote: “You think I’m funky an’ smelly an’ I ain’t got no feelings. That’s what you think. You don’t see that I keep my socks darned an’my clothes clean. You don’t see that you walkin’ all over me like I was some piece’a dog shit. An’ you don’t care. You just put on a monkey suit an’ steal a few pennies from some po’ woman’s purse. You come down here slummin’, flashin’

Devil in a Blue Dress: Novel vs. Film The hardboiled mystery novel, Devil in a Blue Dress, by Walter Mosley was first published in 1990 and was acknowledged by former U.S. President, Bill Clinton, as one of his many favorite novelists (Easy Writer). Taking place in post-war Los Angeles, the story is narrated by an African American laborer, Easy Rawlins, who is transformed into an L.A. detective after being pulled in to the affairs of local townspeople. The successful novel continued onto screen

symbolic brilliance of Aesop’s Fables. The ancient Grecian story teller used animals with human properties to teach lessons about human character and behavior. Similarly, author Walter Mosley uses animals to describe the physical, mental, and emotional qualities of his characters. In the novel, Devil in a Blue Dress, Walter Mosley uses animal symbolism to portray characters Easy Rawlins, Mouse, and Daphne Monet. Easy Rawlins’s addiction to thrill, crime, secrets, and danger

Nearly five decades later, Walter Mosley introduced his detective mystery, Devil in a Blue Dress, which would become a classic amongst hard-boiled literature and would also make it to the big screen. When we look at Mosley’s essay, “Poisonville,” which describes hard-boiled as “a state of being…when a man or a woman, or an entire nation of women and men, is pressed to physical, emotional, economic, and/or intellectual limits…”(Paragraph 1), it can be argued that he carried these ideas over to his

differences between the two. Sometimes there are elements that are present in the book that have a tendency to get lost in the production and directing of a movie. At other times, the movie adds elements that are not originally in the book. In Walter Mosley’s book, “Devil in a Blue Dress,” and the movie of the same name share some similar literary elements. However, there are several vital situations and parts of the book’s story that are not present in the film. Hence, the movie downplays a

Walter Mosley, a writer who received a BA in political science from Johnson State College, says America is the wealthiest nation in the world, yet American people are not wealthy, and that many of us are on the edge of poverty and that's due to the capitalism, an economic system in which trade, industry, and the means of production are privately owned. Mosley classifies our society into three classes: The poor, who are unable to cover their basic necessities in life, the rich, whom worth is gauged

Walter Mosley’s novel, Devil in a Blue Dress, explores the racial prejudices in Los Angeles during the 1940’s. The novel takes place in 1948, when the United States was still legally segregated into black and white communities and when people divided themselves into lower and upper classes. Easy Rawlins, the main character in the book, is an ordinary lower class African American worker, who faces limited opportunities and little money to live on. Throughout the novel, Easy Rawlins experiences firsthand

In this paper I argue that in Walter Mosley's White Butterfly, Mosley uses the detective genre to counter stereotypes and myths regarding black masculinity. Mosley uses the protagonist Easy Rawlins to restore the image of the black man in America and to give readers a better understanding of black men in America. Easy Rawlins in many aspects can be seen as a role model. The book was published in 1992 and the setting is 1956, in Watts, Los Angeles California. A few years into the Civil Rights movement