Erskine Caldwell, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, And Curriculum: A Dog Day Afternoon‪.‬

Nobody had anything to say then. (Caldwell, 1997 p. 281) In the short story titled "Kneel to the Rising Sun" by Erskine Caldwell (1997), Arch Gunnard's brutal act of cutting off a dog's tail symbolizes injustice and terrible wrongdoings committed against poor sharecroppers in the South and ultimately foreshadows the lynching of Clem, the black protagonist in the story who stands up to Gunnard. Lonnie, the pathetic loser of the story, never speaks up, even though he could have because he was white. Lonnie is a coward. The sharecroppers were being slowly starved by Arch Gunnard, the Big House--Plantation masta'. Lonnie never said anything about how he and his family were starving--because he was a coward. One day, Lonnie's 'Pa' was so hungry, in an attempt to find food, he fell into the hog pen and got eaten by hogs. Hogs devour Lonnie's 'Pa.' Clem tries to help. Lonnie does nothing. Clem says, "I couldn't stand to see anybody eaten up by hogs and not do anything about it" (p. 289). Clem tells Arch Gunnard that nobody should be so hungry that they end up falling into a hog pen. That was the last straw for Gunnard. Clem had to be lynched. No black man should ever speak back to a white Plantation boss.