The word "Nigger"

In the essay “Nigger”: The Meaning Of The A Word by Gloria Naylor she portrays how a word can be used in several ways. Words can be said in a harmless way and the same word can be used in a degrading way. The word nigger in her case was used several times in a harmless way in front of her, but the first time she heard it in a negative way she knew it wasn’t right.
Gloria Naylor grew up with her family in Harlem. Most weekends her family would all gather at her grandmother’s house and spend the day gossiping and playing games. During this ti...