From the dialogue and events with the child, Hawthorne clearly shows his position on the controversial issue of slavery and racism in that period. Even more significantly, the little boy who repeatedly enters Ezefia's dime store's primary purpose is to make a statement about race. The boy kidnaps numerous Jim Crow cookies claiming to have an insatiable appetite, a sort of fetish with the issue of slavery. Michele Bonnet wrote a literary criticism concluding this by also stating, "The racially biased vision hidden in these remarks comes to the fore with the Jim Crow gingerbread figure of Ned, who symbolizes the black community with a stereotypical and grotesque character , as is further emphasized by the dancing posture in which he is depicted as 'performing his world-famous dance'” (Bonnet 488). His demolition of the cookies created tensions in the Pyncheon family that can be translated into the thoughts and feelings of Nathaniel Hawthorne and others of that time regarding the abolition of racial inequalities. It is clear that Nathaniel Hawthorne did not want the emancipation of slaves and that he agreed with the claims of society towards those of a different race Bonnet develops a similar analysis by stating: "Hawthorne dramatizes it by having Ned incorporate - and thus eliminate and subjugate - a number of objects whose common denominator is that they are associated with anxiety-generating situations: conflict, war, material progress, and question of emancipation…” (Cofano 493). The Jim Crow cookie boy fetish only reveals Nathaniel Hawthorn's feelings and ongoing frustrations with what was going on in society. This is really one of the major political statements that develops subtly throughout the