Out of Shadows
A Cultural, Fiction, Historical book. If I stood you in front of a man, pressed the cold metal of a gun into your palm...
Twelve-year-old Robert Jacklin comes face-to-face with bigotry, racism, and brutality when he is uprooted from England and moves to Zimbabwe with his family. Robert is enrolled in one of the country s most elite boys boarding schools. Newly integrated, the school is a microcosm of the horrible problems faced by the struggling new country in the wake of a bloody civil war. The white boys want their old country back and torment the black Africans. Robert must make careful alliances. His decision to join the ranks of the more powerful white boys has a devastating effect on hisconscience and emerging manhood."
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 272 pages
- ISBN: 9780823423422 / 823423425
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If I stood you in front of a man, pressed the cold metal of a gun into your palm and told you to squeeze the trigger, would you do it?''No, sir.''Are you sure?''Of course, sir. No ways!''What if I then told you we'd gone back in time and his name was Adolf Hitler? Would you do it then? Would you? Jason Wallace, Out of Shadows //
Genre: Historical Fiction/AutobiographyAward: Costa AwardSummary:Out of Shadows by Jason Wallace is about an expatriate servant, Robert Jacklin. The story is set in Zimbabwe in 1983 after the Bush War has ended. The man in power, Robert Mugabe. After Jacklins arrival, he enrolls in prestigious, all-boys, boarding school. But, the school... A devastating story that pulled at the depths of my compassion. Wallace explored the human ability to survive against the odds and the ways we devise to cope. When pushed far enough humans are capable of doing things we wouldnt imagine. Wallace brings this all out in the painful story of youths placed in an impossible, but plausible... Genre: Young AdultAwards:Rating: 5/5Summary: The novel is set in post revolutionary Zimbabwe. The narrator and protagonist, Robert Jacklin is a white British boy that relocated to Zimbabwe with his parents. Roberts father came to Zimbabwe for a career in civil service. As a boy Robert is sent to Haven, a previously all-white boarding...
