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Meg
Oct 23, 2015 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: 10th-grade-english
Richard Wright is a judge and prophet of his times, as well as prescient to modern race relations. In this seemingly hopeless tragedy, I'd argue he offers and calls for an inhuman and God-like grace towards both his guilty protagonist (which represents the sum of black people in Jim Crow America seen as guilty in the white man's eye before any crime has been committed...how predictive of our current state today and oh how nothing has really changed) as well as the white man (or again the whole o ...more
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Libromaniac
May 02, 2013 rated it liked it
Powerful but severely flawed.
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Pam
Jan 26, 2011 rated it it was amazing
Not sure why I originally rated this book a three. The story has stuck with me for years.
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