/lit/ - Literature

>>17771742
IIRC it's implied they just shot him becasue his body was riddled with bullet holes but that might've just been my English teacher's take on it from middle school. Haven't read it in years so idk.

>>17772123
They did shoot him - while he was trying to escape.

>>17772575
The white people who shot him said he was trying to escape.

>>17772645
Well I’m sure they wouldn’t just shoot him for not escaping.

>>17773726
>17773726
Well they throught hed raped the girl

Terrible thread. OP is a brainlet. They killed him because they believed he raped the girl, he was lynched. Lynchings happen and people lie

>>17771742
This book was eh. Personally I prefer The Turner Diaries, but I’m just saying that for books about race in general not that I agree or anything.

>>17775855
A lot of the magic wears off once you realise it was published in 1960. People think it’s oh so revolutionary and “brave” because they assume it’s a lot older, but nah, by the time it was written it was already a “safe” work, politically speaking.

>>17776064
The magic wears off further in the context of immigrants like Purple Aki who sexually assault poorer Europeans and then pull the race card to protect themselves. It suddenly feels like the "white trash" girl wasn't lying even though the upper middle class white narrator thought she was

>>17771742
Because Truman didn't care to put all that much effort into his ghostwriting.

>>17771742
because escaping from jail would have been an admission of guilt

>>17771742
no