5/11/2023 0 Comments The good lord bird book summary![]() ![]() As such, he regards it with no small degree of skepticism, not least of which because one of Brown’s outbursts gets the boy’s father killed. ![]() ![]() Henry has witnessed white anger before, but he hasn’t seen it deployed on his behalf. To a young black boy like Henry Shackleford (Joshua Caleb Johnson), Brown’s actions are baffling. Brown doesn’t want to negotiate, nor does he want to begin an incremental process toward change: Black people must be freed now, or else he’ll shoot-and often he does. The man’s fury is biblical in both a metaphorical and textual sense, dribbling spit down the hairs of his chin as he declares slavery an affront to God while fervently quoting the Bible. As abolitionist John Brown, a wild-eyed and scraggly bearded Ethan Hawke spends much of Showtime’s The Good Lord Bird-based on James McBride’s National Book Award-winning novel of the same name-shredding his throat as he bellows for the end of slavery. ![]()
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