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The knife
Record details
- ISBN: 1614961107 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
- ISBN: 9781614961109 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 audio file (60 min.)) : digital.
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electronic resource
electronic - Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [United States] : Simply Magazine, 2011.
- Distributor: Made available through hoopla
Content descriptions
Restrictions on Access Note: | Digital content provided by hoopla. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Deaver Brown. |
Summary, etc.: | "The Knife" is a story about temptation, a near betrayal, and then a recovery - a cycle of danger and redemption, told with Crane's ironic touch. A black man with a penchant for fun jokes with the white owner of a watermelon patch. They both enjoy the racial stereotyping image of the black man being entranced by watermelons. Well, Peter Washington has a moment of such entrancement. He tells his friend Alek Williams and they work themselves into a fit of envy about those watermelons. That night they both lay for the watermelons, waiting for Si Bryant, the owner, to turn out his lights and go to bed. Peter gets into the patch first; sees Alek coming from a different way, and jumps him, pretending to be protecting the patch. Peter hauls Alek off, but eventually lets him go. Peter forgets his knife. Bryant catches up with Alek and discovers Alek knows whose knife is in the patch. Alek almost gives his friend away, but at the last moment, blames someone in another town. They both live for another day. A bittersweet story of pettiness by Bryant, ignoble behavior by Peter, but Alek, the older wiser man, rises above it and protects his friend using Bryant's prejudices against him in thinking he would give away his friend. As with all Simply Magazine's audio books, we provide a commentary in an afterword for those interested. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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