![]() ![]() Yet the reader must know them as fully human and fully alive.įirst, I should say the task is somewhat easier for POV characters. Their society treats them as less than human, takes away all power and choice. ![]() There's a particular challenge in making the reader understand agency in characters so downtrodden. ![]() They're beaten, raped, or killed for minor infractions or just a guard's whim. I'm not sure that the book ever calls it slavery, but people with dark skin are forced to work, not allowed to roam freely, and subject to extreme conditions, including deathly cold. The main characters in Rivers Solomon's An Unkindness of Ghosts have been stuck on a spaceship for generations and brutally oppressed by those on higher decks with lighter skin. ![]()
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