Questions tagged [the-trees]
For questions about the 2021 novel by American writer Percival Everett (1956– ). Use in conjunction with the corresponding author tag.
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Onomastics of Percival Everett's The Trees
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What's going on with names in The Trees?
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Percival Everett's The Trees ends as Damon Thruff is typing out a list of 7,006 victims of racial violence:
"He's typing names," Mama Z ...
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Why does Percival Everett change the relationship of Carolyn Bryant and J W Milam in The Trees?
The character Granny C in Percival Everett's The Trees represents an aged Carolyn Bryant, the woman whose dubious claim that Emmett Till whistled at her led to his brutal murder. In real life, the men ...
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