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literature analysis (“Lillian’s Right to Vote” by Jonah Winter)
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, LITERARY ANALYSIS PAPER 2
Literary Analysis Paper
Introduction
First Sentence
Jonah Winter's Book, called “Lillian’s Right to Vote” by Jonah Winter, is crucial literary
work that discusses African Americans' struggle to get their voting right.
Context
The Book portrays efforts that African Americans were bestowing to push their rights to
vote. It reveals the paradigm of inequalities that the black Americans faced before the United
States’ constitution was amended to allow the Africans to vote. The Book is talking about many
African were being barred from voting. Generally, the Book's context is about how African
Americans suffered from being included in the United States' political system, which was
marked by establishing the right to vote.
Characters
The Book's characters include Lillian, the old African woman who is finally acquired her
right to vote in the United States. There are also Lillian’s great-great-grandparents called Elisha
and Sarah. Another character is Sarah's baby, who was known as Edmund. In the story are also
the barber Mr. Bentley and McCrery. The Congressman called John Lewis and activist Martin
Luther King Jr., and Jimmy Lee Jackson, who was shot dead during the protest, to compel for the
amendment of the United States` constitution to allow African Americans to vote.
Quick Plot Summary
The Book's plot revolves around Lillian, who is described as a hundred-year-old African
woman who en route to Montgomery to vote for the first time. During her journey to the voting
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