Riot

Name: Riot
ISBN: 9781606840009

pa Walter Dean Myers

3/5

Pirmo reizi publicēts: 2009
Izdevēji: Egmont USA
Priekšmeti: Draft riot·New york·Ny·1863·Juvenile fiction·Draft riot·New york·Ny·1863·Fiction·Race relations·Fiction·Racially mixed people·Fiction·Riots·Fiction·African americans·Fiction·Irish americans·Fiction·Motion pic
Valoda: English

I can't remember where I got RIOT. I want to say it was at a closing Borders.

RIOT by Walter Dean Myers tells the story of the beginning of the Civil War, and the 1863 insurgency in New York City.President Lincoln had started a draft to gain more soldiers for the Union Army, but there was a clause in the law that allowed the wealthy to pay a three-hundred dollar fee and hire someone else to go to war in their place.

The screenplay format of this historical novel took me a little while to warm up to, but once I got to know the characters, I found this to be a fascinating and compelling story of the New York draft riots during the Civil War. The characters were believable in their language and depictions, and the way characters from different social groups interacted with one another really shed light on the biases and fears of this time period.

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