Who Is The Antagonist In Mississippi Morning

Mississippi Morning is a children's historical fiction, made by Ruth Vander Zee, that shows a story of a child who learns his father is part of the Ku Klux Klan. The build up on how James, the son and protagonist, discovers the truth of his dad is slow and steady moving, making sure everyone knows what’s going on. The word choice, diction, and the sentence structure, syntax, add the effect that the characters are in the 1933’s (Page 1, back, “five and dime”, “white folk”, Page 2, “My pa’s face. [Enter] My pa was hiding under that hood. [Enter] My pa.”). A lot of the characters are described indirectly, like how James is very hard working and caring (Page 1, front, “He does all the chores at home…”) for his family but it never directly tells this. …show more content…
Many of the characterizations are also diction. (Page 1, front, “hair came in a fiery orange”). How the characters talk give the story more meaning, since most of the information is from talking with one another, clarifying information. By talking about events happening, this can show how the characters feel, the mood, and setting of a story (Page 1, back, “That’s where the klan left a black man hangin’...”). By talking about events, this created a less intense feeling of what the event actually did. Seeing an event in the story gives a more thorough description of what’s happening, though since it is a short story it’s normal. All in all, Mississippi Morning is a great story, giving facts about what has happened in history and created a very believable story with fictional