![]() ![]() The effects of The Depression on this area are described throughout the story of Bud's journey across the state. Bud meets Lefty, a well-meaning passer-by who becomes a good friend when he cautions Bud to keep him from entering a Sundown. One element of the historic setting is a Sundown town, where racist covenants prohibit African Americans from living and custom endangers the lives of any found there after dark. Bud Caldwell, the main character, travels from Flint to Grand Rapids, giving readers a glimpse of the midwestern state in the late 1930s he meets a homeless family and a labor organizer and experiences life as an orphaned youth and the racism of the time, such as laws that prohibited African Americans from owning land in many areas, the dangers facing black people, and racial segregation. ![]() This is also the setting of his first novel, The Watsons Go to Birmingham. ![]() The novel is set in Michigan, the home state of the author. The first book to receive both the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature, and the Coretta Scott King Award, which is given to outstanding African-American authors, Bud, Not Buddy was also recognized with the William Allen White Children's Book Award for grades 6-8. Bud, Not Buddy is the second children's novel written by Christopher Paul Curtis. ![]()
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Paul's school and, at the age of fifteen, entered Christ College, Cambridge, with intentions of becoming a priest in the Church of England. ![]() The son of a wealthy scrivener, Milton was educated at St. All rights reservedĮNGLISH POET and political activist John Milton was born on December 9, 1608. ![]() ![]() John Milton, author of Paradise Lost: A Short Biography (Switch to desktop view) ![]() ![]() Mencken’s words, “so handsome that he might even have been called beautiful” is ruthlessly exploited by Ms. That he filched lines and scenarios from the writings of his gifted wife (and some friends), passing them off as his own, has been brilliantly explored in Nancy Milford’s 1970 biography “Zelda” and more recently in Sally Cline’s “Zelda Fitzgerald: Her Voice in Paradise.” That he was, in H.L. ![]() Scott Fitzgerald was an embarrassing, nasty alcoholic is well-known. When Zelda suffers from nervous breakdowns at the end of the novel, her situation is not even poignant it is a yawn. There is a faint inkling of Zelda’s talent and reckless capers, but none of the desperate yearning for attention that drove them. Missing, too, is any deep sense of the beauty and tragedy of the South, ingrained into the DNA of a certain generation - a mixture of gaiety and sadness that ran, like a steady current, beneath the surface. Missing is Zelda’s grace, defiant courage, devastating wit, any hint of “the gleam of derision that flickered beneath the black edge of her eyelashes,” as her friend, writer Sara Haardt, observed. ![]() Fowler’s fictional Zelda clunks through a series of shopping sprees and endless parties in New York City, Hollywood, Paris and the French Riviera, a forgettable lump that easily could be played by Reese Witherspoon. ![]() Consider “Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald.” In this rewriting of history, the author stresses the emotional journey of her characters, but what are we left with? ![]() ![]() ![]() No unnatural pose or set to any of his limbs, no signs of bleeding and his skin was a normal hue. Relief flooded her at the strong beat under her fingers. Looking for signs of breathing, she pressed two fingers into his throat to locate a pulse. She darted forward and dropped to her knees next to the fallen man. A feeling confirmed when she saw Lyon’s arm motionless on the arm of the chair, and beyond him, Cael sitting in the copilot’s seat, also as still as a statue. She padded forward until she could see down between the seats, the sense that something was wrong increasing. What was he doing lying on the floor? There were at least two other cabins at the back if he needed to take a nap, or the bench seats lining the rear section of the cabin. Male, no leg brace and not as big as Lyon. ![]() It was empty… She paused, catching sight of a pair of legs sprawled between the two rows of seats at the front of the cockpit. ![]() She pushed the door open farther and stepped through it. She wasn’t stupid, she’d caught the looks between them and the way Lyon’s expression focused inward, as though he was concentrating on something she couldn’t see or hear. Perhaps they were communicating through other means? She knew they could talk to each other without speaking. The main cabin was silent, not even the soft banter she’d heard between Cael and Archon filling the air. ![]() ![]() Her parents have disappeared with one of their neighbors and she’s left alone at home. Wren is one of the last ones standing but knows that she doesn’t have much time left. No one knows what they do or what they are doing till then. Those infected are gone in the forest during the day but come out at night, looking like a rotting corpse with white eyes. Each farm becomes poisoned by the quicksilver mercury blight, including the animals and then coming for the humans soon after. Hollow’s End is successful and tourists travel far and wide to visit the farms up until a blight slowly takes over the farms. ![]() ![]() Wren lives in a small town called Hollow’s End known for their famous bountiful crops of blue melons and rainbow hued wheat. ![]() |