In Grace Paley’s story, traveling to the south as a stranger, she was “not thinking, or maybe refusing to think” (Part II) about segregation as a whole. To this day, segregation is something that the society around you makes you believe. When Paley first encountered an experience of injustice, she was traveling to the south, an example where society encourages the belief of racial segregation. Paley, being a stranger, was able to find community within a bus of different races. After all, this led her to treat everyone on that bus equally, and resist the injustice of segregation.
