In the book itself, they mention how he grows up in the span of just one year, but I couldn’t feel that to that much of an extent. But, in all of this, it looks like he is reciting for a play, because I couldn’t feel any emotion behind it. He talks about Thena who took him in when his mother was sold off. He never forgets anything, is brilliant, can read, can do woodwork & has the hidden skill of water dancing. Hiram Walker is the protagonist of the story. It is a 403-page book with not a lot to offer. It also has a bit of magical realism in it.
This story focuses on the cruelties of slavery. We see Hiram start off as an intelligent boy to grow into a sensible one. Soon after, we see him go through immense struggles to finally become a part of the Underground.
Hiram starts working as a slave for his white father Howell Walker & half-brother Maynard Walker. We watch Hiram, who has lost his mother, to go seek shelter with Thena. The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates is the story of Hiram Walker, set in the times when coloured people were treated as slaves. So, I ordered the book & finally finished it today. When I read the description, I myself was quite intrigued. It is recommended by Oprah’s Book Clubamong many other people who have highly recommended it. Through the portrayal of a post-catastrophic new world order, the writer asks his American readers to acknowledge the common humanity possessed by the "Other" through transnational reconciliation.Hi Readers! After two long weeks of reading, I was finally able to finish The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Its reason appears to be the violence and bloodshed rooted in American soil, in American history. The central idea of McCarthy"s The Road is making a new world after a big a pocalypse with an end of violence and killing of the "Other" while Geroge Flyd"s killing brings this idea to a reverse gear. His novel, The Road (2006) is post-apocalyptic novel. nation, transnationalism and Americanness: the main area of concern in the novels of a contemporary American novelist Cormac McCarthy. This incident has once again raised the ideas of. The latest murder of Gorge Floyd, a black American, very inhumanly by white Police Officers has once again brought into focus the issue violence with the idea: the other is not acceptable. A large body of American literature deals with the subject of immigration from other parts of world to America and clashes within varied cultures in America.
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