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Dreamland Burning By Jennifer Laham

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Killing someone is a statement on its own, but would it be enough to lose a loop 100 years back or 100 years in the future? The novel Dreamland Burning is a mystery story written by Jennifer Latham based on the Tulsa race riot of 1921. Giving you a 100-year different point of view on the same story soon to come to the light. One 100 Years into the future a 17-year-old girl named Rowan Chase who finds a skeleton in her backyard and is determined to find out what happened to give justice to the body and find out if it has anything to do with her.100 years before a 17-year old boy named Will Tillman living through the 1921 race riot in Tulsa trying to do what is right as everything burns and turns into nothing.Both teenagers trying to live through …show more content…

Ruby a 10-year-old p.c first finds her way into wills heart and spends her every spare minute with him in one of her adventures with Will his cap flies away and Ruby goes to get it for him not seeing the milkman's delivery vehicle she almost gets run over.In a moment of chaos everyone turns out to be fine but the milmans left in anger and his now business is spilled on the floor along with the clear sparkly glass.As he comes stomping towards ruby william gets in front of her which in itself to protect a person of color it could have been taken the wrong way and william would have been viewed as a traitor and more, not even given a chance to speak. In stepping in for Ruby he explains that Ruby's mother works for their family and expresses that it's his fault again showing he would take the blame at this moment he pays for the damaged goods and more for the milkman's trouble. In all of the fear this brought he yanked Ruby and told her she should go back to Africa where she belonged,he regrets it right after feeling everything she feels he understands that the world will first see her as a P.C and not as he sees her as a little girl. In another later-on situation, we have a kkk clan member vernon fish holding ruby and her brother hostage and Vernon has himself in the …show more content…

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