The novel THE MOONSHINE WARS or MY LIFE IN KINCAID, GEORGIA BY TERRY LEE KINCAID III is a character driven, epic journey that offers a fascinating inside look at the moonshine war days, racial tension, and the Ku Klux Klan. It follows the lives of several characters and family generations, as they struggle with surviving.
The story focuses mainly on two families: the Spicer family, who are Black, and the Kincaid family, who are White. The series of events tells the extraordinary tale of how these two families lived and worked together during a time of extreme prejudice and violence.
The story contains violence, romance, betrayal, murder, and redemption. It’s a novel that has plenty of merit.
The tone is consistently dramatic. There’s …show more content…
The structure doesn’t have clear protagonist and it doesn’t really have an actionable goal. While there are several major plot points and some critical choices made by the characters, the series of events don’t feel like they are accumulating towards a big climax. Nevertheless, there is a major climax and these sequences are the most engaging and intense. However, the ending feels like it doesn’t wrap up all the parts of the story or all the relationships, such as Terry Lee Jr. and Little T or what really happened to Big Jim and Big T.
The presentation is more of a generational character study of each character, their role in the family, and some of the events that took place in their lives vs. a more conventional storyline where a character has a problem that has to be solved.
There’s no doubt that the characters are fascinating. They are rich and complex. They face strong moral choices and live in a brutal world. However, consider focusing more on their inner conflict and show it through images and dialogue rather than explain it. As stated, because of the structure, there isn’t a main protagonist that drives the entire story. Sometimes it’s about Billy Ray, sometimes, Big T, or Big Jim or Sonny. It’s an artistic choice, but when a story has a main central character that drives the action, then the audience can bond more easily, especially if they root for that main character, and if they have a goal with compelling stakes at
The story focuses mainly on two families: the Spicer family, who are Black, and the Kincaid family, who are White. The series of events tells the extraordinary tale of how these two families lived and worked together during a time of extreme prejudice and violence.
The story contains violence, romance, betrayal, murder, and redemption. It’s a novel that has plenty of merit.
The tone is consistently dramatic. There’s …show more content…
The structure doesn’t have clear protagonist and it doesn’t really have an actionable goal. While there are several major plot points and some critical choices made by the characters, the series of events don’t feel like they are accumulating towards a big climax. Nevertheless, there is a major climax and these sequences are the most engaging and intense. However, the ending feels like it doesn’t wrap up all the parts of the story or all the relationships, such as Terry Lee Jr. and Little T or what really happened to Big Jim and Big T.
The presentation is more of a generational character study of each character, their role in the family, and some of the events that took place in their lives vs. a more conventional storyline where a character has a problem that has to be solved.
There’s no doubt that the characters are fascinating. They are rich and complex. They face strong moral choices and live in a brutal world. However, consider focusing more on their inner conflict and show it through images and dialogue rather than explain it. As stated, because of the structure, there isn’t a main protagonist that drives the entire story. Sometimes it’s about Billy Ray, sometimes, Big T, or Big Jim or Sonny. It’s an artistic choice, but when a story has a main central character that drives the action, then the audience can bond more easily, especially if they root for that main character, and if they have a goal with compelling stakes at