The Learning Tree Sparknotes

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The Learning Tree, written by Gordon Parks in 1963. Gordon Parks is an African-American author. The Learning Tree is a fictional autobiography when he was growing up in Fort Scott, Kansas. It was written based on a third person's viewpoint about the life of a teenage African-American boy’s named Newt Winger. It was about the struggle they went through as an African-American and about a murder trial which resolves with Newt Winger testimony.
The Learning Tree is about the life of a teenage African-American boy’s named Newt Winger. The plot of the novel is that one-day Newt Winger, his best friend Marcus Savage, and some of their other friends stealing apples from Jake Kiner’s orchard. The boy’s were eating the apples near a lake where Jake Kiner …show more content…

Marcus Savage decides to beat up Jake Kiner really badly, then leaves him to death. Marcus Savage was caught later and was sent to jail for almost killing a man. Now Newt is faced to tell the truth and is making it up by working for Jake Kiner with his friends. Newts life starts to change. He meets the new girl in the town, Arcella Jefferson. They both get into a relationship. But, things start to go downhill. When Arcella Jefferson gets raped and impregnated by two white men, Chauncey Cavanaugh and the son of a judge. Later on, Newt Winger learned how bad racism is in the town. He got called a “nigga”. Then being denied to enter high school because of his skin color. One day Newt was eating lunch in the loft of Jake Kiner’s barn. While he was eating, he became a bystander by witnessing Jake Kiner being killed by Marcus Savage’s dad, Booker Savage. Newt Winger kept quite. But, later Newt Winger revealed the truth because Silas Newhall was being accused of being the murderer. Silas Newhall we being accused for

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