post 1 daniel was here

The beginning of this book is seeming to be set in the heat of the civil rights movement. it starts off with a little girl named Lily whom has a dis functional drunk for a dad and a dead mother; leaning towards a mother "figure" who is of African American decent. Its an odd mixture of cultures at the time seeing as how most black and white people did not get along. It shows us something about Lily in the fact that she doesn't just side with the racy white people, instead accept people for who they are as a person. it starts an interesting sequence of events involving Rosaleen getting arrested and having to go to the hospital due to injuries in a slight brawl involving white racists. the setting for the girl and her father provides a slice and dice relationship dealt with most likely throughout the remainder of the story.