Juneteenth

A detailed Summary of Juneteenth

Ellison's Juneteenth is a layered and subtly allusive book. It depends

heavily on a stream of consciousness style, and it asks for a greater demand

on the reader who seeks to learn about it and grasp it's whole. The settings

and landscapes of the book are almost entirely psychological and dialogical,

and easy to get lost in. Juneteenth's formal derangement's reflect a grown

man's crafted, carefully managed self coming undone.

The main character in the book is a man named Bliss. He was born by

a white woman who suddenly disappears and a man who is never identified.

Bliss is raised by a black Jazz musician named Hickman, who later becomes

a revivalist minister. Bliss leaves his foster father and his name behind to

become an itinerant filmmaker and a con artist called Movie Man. Bliss being

white or just passing for white is left unknown. Finally he has morphed into a

better person and gains a seat in the US Congress as Senator Sunraider.

The story starts in the early 50's, when the famous big toed Sunraider

is shot while addressing the senate. While in the hospital his foster father

Hickman comes to visit him and maintain by his side. Hickman and Bliss or

was sometimes more melodramatic then convincingly anguished. Some parts

ourselves. Ellison's ambiguity about whether Bliss is white or black in my

yet many of us are taught to deny our roots. In doing so, like Bliss we fail to

throughout out there lives the bound and separated them. The name Bliss still

been chilled witch slices were shared. Bliss had felt like he had finally met his

had integrity and the voice of a man who made mistakes because he couldn't

Approximate Word count = 891
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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