Summary
Delphine and her
sisters are put on a plane from Brooklyn to Oakland, where they are to stay
with their estranged mother, Cecile, for a month. Their dreams of a warm
reception are quickly shattered when Cecile says, "I didn't send for
you. Didn't want you in the first place. Should have gone to Mexico to get rid of you
when I had the chance." It's 1968 when society is changing and men
in berets carrying guns are shouting about black power. But it's also a
personal time when the girls desperately want to know who their mother is and
why she abandoned them. For meals, Cecile sends the girls for Chinese food, and
to keep them out of her way, she sends them to the local Black Panther day
camp. Over the course of the next four weeks, Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern spend
time learning about revolution even though what they want is a home-cooked meal
and a real mother. Slowly, they become part of a larger community and the
mysterious story of their mom's flight is untangled.
Criticism:
Feminism is a collection of movements and
ideologies aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political,
economic, and social rights for women. Feminism,
aims to understand the nature of gender inequality by examining women's social
roles and lived experience.
The story is all about the three black sisters who
leave their home in Brooklyn and set out for Oakland. Their father thought that
it was time for them to meet their mother who abandoned them for years. Instead
of meeting a mother of their dreams, they found a women so consumed with her
work. The sisters later on find the total community, center over by the Black
Panthers. The girls powerful story is about Identity, Black Panthers, Civil
Rights Movement and abandonment. One Crazy Summer is a book about summer's
discovery of new things that untangled everything into reality.
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