Tag: literature
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The Sunday Following Mother’s Day
Edward P. Jones’, The Sunday Following Mother’s Day, chronicles Madeleine William’s search for the reason, or rather the man who killed her mother. The story opens with a description of the silence in which the murder occurred—a night in early April when Madeleine was four-years-old, and her brother, ten. The two not learn of what…
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Transformation on ‘F’ Street
Edward P. Jones’s story, A Butterfly on ‘F’ Street is about transformation—a change that occurs between two women that love the same man, now deceased. Jones uses metaphor and setting to emphasize the change. The story opens with Mildred Harper crossing ‘F’ street on her way from Morton’s to Woolworth’s. On reaching the island or…
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Life, Death, and Times in Edward P. Jones’ “The Known World”
What interested me most about The Known World was how Jones maintained a sense of tension between time on both the profane and celestial levels through his deceased protagonist Henry Townsend and the supporting character, Townsend’s slave, Moses. While the novel centers on Henry Townsend, a former slave, who upon gaining his freedom purchases slaves…