The Crooked Letter Quotes

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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter is about two boys who became friends in Chabot, a small town in Mississippi in the 1970’s. Larry ott and Silas jones first became friends when they met in school. They lived differently; Larry was the child of a lower-middle class white parents and Silas the child of a single black woman. Silas’s mum was the maid who took care of Larry as a child. Larry as a child brought snakes to school. He was smart, a loner, gifted and knew a lot of stuffs. Silas was his only friend. Larry was a gentle but scary boy who lived an isolated life because he was a monster. The tragedy of the past had made him a suspect in the town in regards to this new crime of a girl missing for eight days. According to Washingtonpost.com,” Crooked Letter makes a hunting demonstration of Faulkner’s claim that the past is never dead. …show more content…

It has come to haunt Silas and Larry. “You can’t be who you’re going to be and who you use to be at the same time” this quote significantly talked about Silas, because after he came back he tried to move on with his life especially with the woman angie, but he could really move on because people did not know the truth about Larry, so he could not continue with Angie. Also, he could not be the protagonist and the racist child the same time. He was trying to hide and trying to be somebody he was not. According to Alex Haley’s quote, “racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic” larry is considered a racist because he called silas a nigga. He was taught to be a racist by his father and his other friends. Their past had come to haunt them. How Larry and Silas are haunted by their past in a racist

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