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Where Is The Voice Coming From Eudora Welty Summary
On the night of June 12, 1963, Eudora Welty wrote a brief two-page short story titled Where is the voice coming from?, detailing the killing of Medgar Evers. Evers was murdered earlier that day, startling the African-American community in Jackson, Mississippi. Out of anger, Welty put the piece together, writing the chilling murder from the killer’s perspective. An odd choice to make, but it served as a way to show others the thought process and justification that white people at the time gave for the oppression of the black members of their communities. Welty’s choice to make the killer’s thought process the main subject for her short story serves to show the community how whites see the civil rights movement. The killer is a poor white man,
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