This story is about a 15 year old girl, Macey Clare, who's parents are never home so she stays with her grandparents most of the times. Macey gets involved with a Saturday group, where they go and paint a church in a bad part of the neighborhood. While they paint at the black church, an person walks by smoking, and seeing the open cans of paint and turpentine, throws a match into the church. Setting it into blazes. The whole group, including, Macey, Austin (Austins Grandparents are friends with Maceys grandparents) , Venita, Lindsay, Grace, Chamique, and Davonn. Luckily they escape from the church safely. The fire gets Macey interested in a fire that happened years ago, where a man was thought to have been burned alive in it. For a history project, she chooses this "barn fire" and discovers things that were meant to stay in the past. She finds out that the man that was been burned alive was a black man, and he ended up getting out. Macey decides to go around town asking people about what happened but no one remembers anything about the fire. They want to keep it secret because he was what they did was prejudice and wrong. .
After digging into it more Macey is turned to believe that the person who started the fire lived on Shell Road. The only problem with this was that Macys grandparents and Austin's grandparents are the only ones who live here. This makes Macey more determined and curious to find out what happened. Everyone tries to get her to research something different for her history project but, because she knows she onto something she wont give up. Venita, who is also black, is shot days later during a gang fight and this proves to Macey that no matter how hard her town tries to hide it they are prejudice. Her family won't let her go the funeral which upsets her greatly. Finally Macey gets Austin to help her find out how the fire started and who was all responsible. They both failed to solve the mystery but they know that their town has not always been what they thought it was.
Mississippi Burning Essay In the movie "Mississippi Burning" many aspects of our civil rights unit were key points in teh movie. ... After the actual crime when the FBI showed up none of the people in the town, including the black population, would not give them information. ... In conclussion, "Mississippi Burning" was a good example of how our civil rights unit ties in with what really happened in 1964. ...
"Mississippi Burning": Fact versus Fiction In the movie "Mississippi Burning" we see a dramatized version of a non-fiction event that occurred in Mississippi in 1964. ... There was little played out in the movie "Mississippi Burning" about the activists, but through out you hear a little more about them. ... After reading information about the Mississippi Burning trail that took place after the bodies were found and people were arrested, the real heroes, besides the activists, were the lawyers who won the case for them. ... You have to play up to emotions of your audience. ... After dramat...
Changing the World The main character, Macey Claire, in the book, Burning Up, by Caroline B.Cooney, changed from a normal fifteen-year old to someone willing to make a difference. ... To finish up the school year, Macey's class had been assigned a history project. ... She did end up obtaining some information from relatives, which helped her find the man living in the barn was a black teacher. ... After talking to the fire-chief, she found out there was an igniter poured on the teacher's car to speed the fire up. ... He told her she has to put out the fires that are burning tod...
The Truth is Burning Me Up Inside You are a crime scene investigator and it's your first day on the job. ... So how would this be possible with a build up of flammable gasses? ... What if the body had a build up of another source of heat from within? ... Is this a source of inner heat possibly responsible for burning people to ash? ... Once all the viscera is burned up, the fire looks for another fuel. ...
Flag burning can be and usually is a very controversial issue with people. ... Others believe that flag burning is a statement that one should be able to make without major repercussions. ... Although I am neither nor or against the burning of the flag, I believe the right should not be taken away. ... Sometimes it takes as much as burning a flag to get the attention of those in the White House and in Congress. ... If, by burning a flag, you intentionally hurt someone physically, or end up damaging their property, that is when action should be taken against you. ...
The burning of the flag is only done to anger and sadden on lookers. ... Why should anyone respect the code of the flag when they know that next door someone is burning it. The issue of whether or not the desecration of the flag should be legal or not has been up in the air for many years. ... The opposing side to making the burning of the flag legal say that it is their right. ... The only message that the burning or desecrating of the flag puts out is anger. ...
Burning Barns In Faulkner's Barn Burning, the tale of a southern sharecropper's family forced into a nomadic existence by the both the political and social structure following the Reconstruction, Abner Snopes stands out as a wholly callous and insensitive patriarch as well as a vicious and malevolent poster-child for the oppressed proletariat tenant-farmers. ... Sarty's dilemma and Ab's frustrations continually grab the reader, serving up a series of emotionally laden dilemmas: Given the circumstances of the story, is Ab's barn burning justified? Should Sarty tell...
Barn Burning "You"re getting to be a man. ... Sarty's father, Abner Snopes is being accused of a barn burning. ... , referring to the people that his father and his family for that matter are up against. ... Barn burning is his largest and always final statement. But, he sort of builds up to that, as we can see in the story. ...
Barn Burning "You"re getting to be a man. ... Sarty's father, Abner Snopes is being accused of a barn burning. ... , referring to the people that his father and his family for that matter are up against. ... Barn burning is his largest and always final statement. But, he sort of builds up to that, as we can see in the story. ...
Barn Burning "You"re getting to be a man. ... Sarty's father, Abner Snopes is being accused of a barn burning. ... , referring to the people that his father and his family for that matter are up against. ... Barn burning is his largest and always final statement. But, he sort of builds up to that, as we can see in the story. ...