The first section of Tayari Jones’s Leaving Atlanta contains instances of child-like paraphernalia that are realized through the characters’ voices. The descriptions of the voices are not phrases commonly used. When talking about the fictional creature with Tasha, DeShaun says “‘You could tell me. I won’t tell anybody.’ DeShaun’s voice collapsed like a house made…
When I was younger, I watched TV programs immediately coming home from school. A naïve thought I had was that the Disney and Nickelodeon shows I watched were in real-time or that they filmed a new episode every week. How do they get from place to place in that short amount of time? This inquiry…
Tayari Jones’s Leaving Atlanta explores, among many things, trusting adults. What is also explored is how communities react to abducted children. Parents in Atlanta mobilized when more children vanished. Tasha’s mother sends Tasha to a house after school filled with children, so she and DeShaun would not be home alone while Mama and Daddy are…
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Reflection on Content Describe a few of the connections you see between your different entries? As you reflect on your entries, do you find any contradictions between one entry and another? Or even within one entry? Compare your first entry, your 5th entry, and your last entry. Are their similarities to the types of questions…