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A carregar... Lay that Trumpet in Our Hands (2002)por Susan Carol McCarthy
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Winner of the Chautauqua South Fiction Award This was a very touching story of a family that become intangled with the KKK in Florida in the 1950's. This is a story that will make you mad and scared and victorious all at the same time. You feel the grip of evil, and the hand of friends banning together. Everyone needs to have a book like this to refer back to when we may feel a little lost. It is proof that even now, a bully will never win. Lay That Trumpet In our Hands is a novel inspired by real events that took place in Florida in 1951. The story follows a northern family living in a southern community surrounded by racism and violence. This would be a good book for a High School English literature class because it discusses many themes and different perspectives. It also examines different litercies by encompassing both northern and southern dialects, values, and histories. Wonderful book. This was a book club choice for our group and we all really enjoyed it and it prompted good conversation. I would love to read her other book, True Fires. This book has some of the same feeling as To Kill a Mockingbird. The characters of Reesa, Vaylie, Luther, Marvin are all very likeable. You don't get to know the Klan characters very much but you don't need to to know you dislike them. It was interesting too look up the real cases after reading this book to get more info. sem crÃticas | adicionar uma crÃtica
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HTML:Here is one of those rare and remarkable debuts that herald the appearance of a major new talent on the literary scene. Inspired by real events, Lay That Trumpet In Our Hands is a wise and luminous story about a northern family, a southern town, and the senseless murder that sparks an extraordinary act of courage. To this day, my family is in disagreement as to precisely when the nightmare began. For me, it was the morning Daddy and Luther discovered Marvin, beaten, shot, and dying, in the Klanâ??s stomping grounds off Round Lake Road. My brother Ren disagrees. He points to the small cluster of scars that begin just outside his left eye and trail horizontally across his temple to the top of his ear. Ren claims it started when the men in white robes took the unprecedented step of shooting at two white children. Others say it was when Mr. Thurgood Marshall of the NAACP and Mr. Hooverâ??s FBI came to town. Mother and Daddy sh Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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