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move to the oil town of new london with her deeply abusive white stepfather, henry. while naomi s have siblings are able to pass as whites, and easily assimilate to their new surroundings, naomi s experiences the opposite. then she finds washed, one of the few black people in the community. he s kind, he provides solace, protection, and the kind of buoyant hope that only comes with the first love. naomi and wash our certainly star crossed lovers, and their end is even more gruesome than that of romeo and juliet. there is violence, and a rape scene. the effect is devastated, and shock. again it doesn t feel gratuitous. the violence could not exist without the pervasive racism within their texas town, and so much of the nation at the time. it could not exist without the abuse of stepfathers patriarchal need for control. perhaps the true devastation in reading this difficult scene is that the realization that something so appalling could also exist outside the pages of a book. out of dark
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