In a paragraph, explain what Clarke means when he says that, in America, the language seems to make him feel as if he is "looking reversed." Include incident's Clarke describes when he discovers a word means something quite different from what he thought it did.
Clarke probably means that he never new that words he used had opposite or negative effects based on the meaning of whatevers in relation to those words. He never sought to think of the English-language in any other form except that it was just used for communication between one another. For example, he recalled a time when his neighbor called him "boy," he thought that the word boy was a common word that grown ups call young boy's by because back in his home country which was Jamaica, that word was used commonly. But his other neighbor which was an African-American and had a history with slavery told him that the word has it's root's in slavery. It was to be deemed derogatory when used by his white neighbor. So Clarke let his neighbor know about what he had heard and now knew. It made the neighbor realize that it was probably something wrong to be saying and he stopped referring Clarke by the word boy. At the end Clarke found out that he, the neighbor was from Hungary and was not yet accustomed to choosing his words according to historical context too.
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