Race, poverty, red shutters, religion, and mental health are some issues contained in Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy. There are differences between people. What are the reactions to individual differencs? If everyone has white houses with green shutters, what if you paint your shutters red? It seems like a simple, almost silly or trivial matter. Is it? What kinds of differences can or should be tolerated in people - different religions? Oh, my! And, what of the poor? What about people who vary in color? There are a lot of issus in this book. Like most really good stories, it is about a relationship. A relationship between a preacher's boy (white) and a poor girl (black) who enjoy sailing, throwing rocks, fishing, and hanging out. They are young and innocent as almost all people start out. But, alas, societal forces act to end innocence. Wake up and live in the real world kind of thing. What do they do? Can they hang in there? And what about great organ music and red shutters? Life is complicated - or not.
This is a book of historical fiction based on a colony of former slaves living on an island in New England. The white community on the mainland decides to confiscate the island and make it a tourist attraction. In the time of the book, a person could be committed to a mental institution if any two citizens signed a petition. Guess what. The island was full of not poor former slaves, but mentally unstable people.
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Review by Bob
3 comments:
This seems like a really deep book with a lot of emotion. Where did you find this book?
This book sounds great! Could you explain the title? I wonder who are Lizzie Bright and the Buckminister Boy?
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