A Summary Of The Reformatory By Marita Bonner

The first time I read the story I was confused to what was going on at first when the setting shifted. After reading the story over again I understood it a lot better. The story started off with Lizabeth siting on a bench waiting to be taken to the Reformatory, but then jumps back to when she lived in Mississippi, when she was much younger. I got lost to why Marita Bonner wrote the begging of the story in the first place until I got to the end of the story, then it all added up. I think that the description supported the message the author was trying to get across. I think she was trying to get across that African Americans were still being treated unfairly when the moved up north rather than being down south.

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