With Luvenia’s help, Florenz lies to her father about Luvenia being sick and pregnant. Very interesting story. Lizzy marries Lem’s brother Richard, and they have a son named Elijah who works the land with other members of the family. In a brief 375 pages, Walter Dean Myers, in his novel "The Glory Field", covers roughly 250 years in the history of a black family, spanning multiple generations. A basketball star with good grades at Curry High School, Tommy impresses all those present at the All-City Tournament. Miss Etta tells her losing a job is not a bad thing and distracts Luvenia by sending her to a funeral. Since the majority of the book takes place before my students were born, I decided that I am a big fan of Walter Dean Myers because I think that he writes in a style that is real and easy for teens to relate to. I loved the bits of family tree at the beginning of each part. Curry wins the tournament because of Tommy’s play at the end of the game. After going home and stopping at Miss Etta’s, Luvenia returns to the Deets’s home that night.

THE GLORY FIELD weaves together five stories to tell the powerful tale of a strong family living on the land that their slave ancestors had worked and came to own. Be prepared to travel to Sierra Leone in West Africa to read about the beginning of the Lewis family. Elijah turns them down, and the tense situation ends only when others on the beach, both black and white, come over.

Reverend McKinnon comes over with his daughter Mandy. Luvenia wants Malcolm to find Shep, who she believes has a drinking problem. The doctor eventually comes out and tells them that Skeeter will recover, but must stay in the hospital overnight. Some people equate it to Roots.

All the slaves are made to work on a Sunday, harvesting sweet potatoes under the watchful eye of overseer Joey Haynes.

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In the morning, Lizzy is given work cleaning the boots of white officers and packing wagons while Lem becomes a soldier. As she helps him, she feels the pain of the whip wielded by Joe Haynes. An important book for a thumbnail sketch of life among generations of African Americans without the many and probable incidence of personal tragedies. Saran tells Elijah to tend to the cemetery once a week. We tend to lose track of family members over time but then catch up at family reunions. In 1864 13-year-old Lizzie escapes from slavery. The ending was excellent.Published in 1994, but still relevant today. It ties into many of the key historical events of the period where the characters live from slavery, to the great migration, to the civil rights movement, and even a struggle with drugs in the present day scenario. The whipping only stops when Joshua tackles Joe. At the gathering afterward, Elijah flirts with Goldie, a girl he thinks he wants to marry. I liked his writing, he is a good story teller. Since the majority of the book takes place before my students were born, I decided that I had a difficult time deciding whether or not I wanted to rate this as historical fiction. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. They finally reach an enclave of Union soldiers (in 1864, the United States Civil War was under way, pitting the Union against the Confederate States of America), both white and black, who feed them and let them sleep. Miss Etta throws a rent party (house party in which guests give money to help pay the host’s rent, or pay some other expense) for her, and Luvenia plans to use the proceeds to start her business venture.

It made you think how things changed in such a short period of our American history.

Later, Tommy wonders what he would have done in Skeeter’s place. On top of it all, every 80 pages, the setting, main character, and time period changed, just to confuse you. The glory field by Walter Dean Myers. Mr. Turner stops by the gathering and tells Saran that he does not know where his son is. Here is a breakdown of the sections of the novel. Abby’s grandson, Tommy Lewis, is playing basketball for the Curry Cougars against Delaney High School. Malcolm works for Luvenia. It is the story of an African-American family told in the first person by each of its narrators from their time as slaves in the later 1700's to the mid-nineties.

Created Date 20171011194517+00'00' Malcolm and String Theory are playing their first major concert at Brown University. Mrs. Deets dismisses her desire to go to school. Florenz and Katie let Luvenia out when they see a boy from school, and Luvenia walks home, uncomfortable with her role in the scheme. In the morning, Malcolm learns that everyone will be helping to harvest the last sweet potato crop on the Lewis land. It’s a school year like no other.

Elijah marries Goldie in Chicago, where they have two children, Richard and Luvenia. Tommy is later released and his family and friends praise his actions. Luvenia is the great-aunt of Malcolm Lewis, a musician who starts a music group called String Theory.

I found that, as the subject matter lightened and became more contemporary to present day, the writing became lighter and more humorous. The field is the physical reminder of the family and how these various connected family members share a common, loving kinship. When Elijah and Abby reach the riverbank, a group has gathered.

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