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March: Book Two (March, #2)
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Book Two of March gets grisly.
The nonviolent beginnings of the Nashville “sit-ins� depicted in March, Book One, have now attracted national attention and opposition, and violence is erupting all over the South.
The Freedom Riders board buses in the South in the 1960s, to fight for the right to be recognized as human, but what is human anyway, if a human can turn a fire hose on children at a nonviolent protest and then set a pack of killer police dogs on them?
As far as I'm concerned, there's behavior toward humans that happened in the U.S. during this struggle for civil rights that makes me want to crawl into a cave and scrawl on the walls with my own fingernails. Still, all people crave the innate desire to be validated and recognized as worthy, as human, and all people should be, even if being human still has a long way to go.
This graphic novel is graphic at times, and so is our human behavior.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.
--Maya Angelou
The nonviolent beginnings of the Nashville “sit-ins� depicted in March, Book One, have now attracted national attention and opposition, and violence is erupting all over the South.
The Freedom Riders board buses in the South in the 1960s, to fight for the right to be recognized as human, but what is human anyway, if a human can turn a fire hose on children at a nonviolent protest and then set a pack of killer police dogs on them?
As far as I'm concerned, there's behavior toward humans that happened in the U.S. during this struggle for civil rights that makes me want to crawl into a cave and scrawl on the walls with my own fingernails. Still, all people crave the innate desire to be validated and recognized as worthy, as human, and all people should be, even if being human still has a long way to go.
This graphic novel is graphic at times, and so is our human behavior.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.
--Maya Angelou
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Apr 09, 2018 04:17PM
Lovely, passionate review, Julie, love that you ended with Maya Angelou's words.
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Thank you, Cheri. I feel badly that graphic novels don't get the attention of regular novels on here, because this one is an important read.
