Genre
Book
Setting and Context
Written in the context of racial discrimination
Narrator and Point of View
Third-person narrative
Tone and Mood
Heartbreaking, buoyant, demoralizing
Protagonist and Antagonist
The central character is the grandmother.
Major Conflict
The main conflict is that white superiority is methodical and entrenched in American bodies even before birth.
Climax
The climax is the realization that the only way to heal from racial trauma is by taking up the responsibility to heal.
Foreshadowing
The deep-rooted roots of white supremacy and racial trauma are foreshadowed European corporeal punishment in the Middle Ages.
Understatement
The impact of racial trauma is inconspicuous. For instance, all people of colour are victims of racial trauma.
Allusions
The story alludes to the root causes of white body supremacy and the sufferings of Americans.
Imagery
The images of the author’s grandmother’s hands depict sight imagery.
Paradox
The main paradox is that racism affects immigrants and the American locals suffer from white body supremacy.
Parallelism
N/A
Metonymy and Synecdoche
Racial trauma is used as a metonymy for an inferiority complex.
Personification
N/A
