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4.32 AVERAGE
4.32 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
emotional
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
challenging
dark
emotional
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Colson Whitehead is amazing! I loved Harlem Shuffle, and now I may love The Nickel Boys even more. Based on a real "reform school" in Florida, Nickel and its boys are a horrifying reminder of the kinds of abuse, racial and otherwise, that wasn't visible until, as the book says, someone else said it. It's not an easy read, but the story of Elwood Curtis and Turner is one that needs to be told and retold.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
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Quote from the book: “If everyone looked the other way, then everybody was in on it. If he looked the other way, he was as implicated as the rest. That's how he saw it, how he'd always seen things.”
Synopsis: the story starts with Edward who due to a negligent misunderstanding is send to a reformatory school. This reformatory school was known for treating all the black boys in inhuman conditions and abusing them at a major scale. These events have actually taken place in a school in Florida in 1960. Colson tries to give a voice to all these incidents. His Fictional characters connect us through these phases of brutality and uprising. Edward is so inspired by Martin luther king, wants to go to college and be a part of the social reform movement. He meets turner at the school and that’s where the author tries to depict how 2 people approach the same pain in different aspects.
My take on this book: This is my first book through Whitehead. Actually reading
The Underground Railroad had been on my TBR considering long but by some means it never turned up. So when I saw The Nickel boys at the library I didn’t choose to lose the opportunity. Nickel boys was difficult to study and to gulp down. Understanding the pain, the trauma made me feel sick. The world maintains on altering daily round us but the atrocities I sense just change their froms n continue to be present in the surroundings. A school is supposed to carry reformaations in ones life, however think about the type of hellish faculty stated in this book. The different elements of inhumanity, racisum, torture, abuse – we preserve on reading them in tens of millions of books in a number of forms. I agree with one can surely understand them solely when you go via them. Do examine it to understand how harsh the world can be.
Quote from the book: “If everyone looked the other way, then everybody was in on it. If he looked the other way, he was as implicated as the rest. That's how he saw it, how he'd always seen things.”
Synopsis: the story starts with Edward who due to a negligent misunderstanding is send to a reformatory school. This reformatory school was known for treating all the black boys in inhuman conditions and abusing them at a major scale. These events have actually taken place in a school in Florida in 1960. Colson tries to give a voice to all these incidents. His Fictional characters connect us through these phases of brutality and uprising. Edward is so inspired by Martin luther king, wants to go to college and be a part of the social reform movement. He meets turner at the school and that’s where the author tries to depict how 2 people approach the same pain in different aspects.
My take on this book: This is my first book through Whitehead. Actually reading
The Underground Railroad had been on my TBR considering long but by some means it never turned up. So when I saw The Nickel boys at the library I didn’t choose to lose the opportunity. Nickel boys was difficult to study and to gulp down. Understanding the pain, the trauma made me feel sick. The world maintains on altering daily round us but the atrocities I sense just change their froms n continue to be present in the surroundings. A school is supposed to carry reformaations in ones life, however think about the type of hellish faculty stated in this book. The different elements of inhumanity, racisum, torture, abuse – we preserve on reading them in tens of millions of books in a number of forms. I agree with one can surely understand them solely when you go via them. Do examine it to understand how harsh the world can be.