Yes to the bottom! The chapter on SC also distracted me a lot because of all the mentions of the skyscrapers and elevators and the eugenics movement. I knew that happened but I thought it was more like the 1930s and I kept getting puzzled by that, lol.
Much of the novel was written in such a stark, straightforward way and I personally thought its realism was its main strength. I was definitely drawn in by Cora and her journey and I think the flat, unemotional writing helped amp up the horror of what he was describing. I know I was reading it with eyes wide open, especially the early chapters. But then you have these two almost science fiction aspects to it (the railroad and the modern city and medicine) which were really jarring and distracting to me as the reader. I didn't think they really fit.
I don't go here so I hope you don't mind me jumping in. But I didn't really take the book as a book about slavery per se. As in not to necessarily tell the history and atrocities of slavery. I think the book was more of a dystopian novel of what it would be like if slavery had never ended. I do think the book took place in the 1900s, 1930s is a good guess.
Huh. I never thought about it like that but I like that perspective.
Yes to the bottom! The chapter on SC also distracted me a lot because of all the mentions of the skyscrapers and elevators and the eugenics movement. I knew that happened but I thought it was more like the 1930s and I kept getting puzzled by that, lol.
Much of the novel was written in such a stark, straightforward way and I personally thought its realism was its main strength. I was definitely drawn in by Cora and her journey and I think the flat, unemotional writing helped amp up the horror of what he was describing. I know I was reading it with eyes wide open, especially the early chapters. But then you have these two almost science fiction aspects to it (the railroad and the modern city and medicine) which were really jarring and distracting to me as the reader. I didn't think they really fit.
I don't go here so I hope you don't mind me jumping in. But I didn't really take the book as a book about slavery per se. As in not to necessarily tell the history and atrocities of slavery. I think the book was more of a dystopian novel of what it would be like if slavery had never ended. I do think the book took place in the 1900s, 1930s is a good guess.