Dear Martin

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Dear Martin is a young adult fiction novel book written by Nic Stone and got William C. Morris Debut YA Award. [1] Dear Martin by Nic Stone is a realistic fiction book that takes place in the United States. It depicts identity, racism, and adolescence through the eyes of an African American teenager. [2]

Plot

The novel follows Justyce McAllister, a 17-year-old black student who struggles with being a minority in his prep school. In spite of the way that he has an unpleasant background and is not quite the same as the vast majority of the understudies at Braselton Prep, he turns out to be old buddies with another black student named Manny Rivers. He also does well for himself academically and socially until one day when he gets arrested for something that wasn’t his fault because of racism. At the point when individuals put him being investigated without asking what occurred, it causes him to feel like society couldn't care less about how hard African Americans need to function just to get by. The novel, Dear Martin begins before Justyce’s arrest. A senior at the elite school Braselton, he excels in his studies and is slated to become class valedictorian. He also has a standing proposal to go to Yale University. Be that as it may, his inspiration for dominating stems from battles at home: His family is poor and lives in a low-pay neighborhood with a horror rate. [3]

Controversy

In this Book, Justyce McAllice or Jus, faced many discriminations and racism towards him. In the first few chapters of the book, Jus is racially profiled by a police officer named Officer Castillo and wrongfully arrested. He is trying to help his ex-girlfriend, Melo, who is very drunk. However, Officer Castillo assumes Jus is trying to hurt Mel and uses undue force to detain him without first pausing to ask questions. Besides that, Jus has faced difficulties with their friends because of his skin color, he feels unfit and uncomfortable while talking about equalities in the class because his friend made him an example of inequalities. He also got bullied and defeated by his friend, Trey, and he is told that white people will never see black people as equal. When Jus discovers that he has been accepted for early admission to Yale University and his friend, Jared, is extremely upset that he did not get into Yale but Jus did. He argues that the only reason Jus got in is because of affirmative action and that minority students are taking the spots of white students and when he again ran into Trey, Trey told him that the white people at Yale will never truly accept him. Jus ends up feeling defeated. [4]

References

  1. Dear Martin. American Library Association. Retrieved February 2 2021.
  2. Dear Martin Book Summary, by Nic Stone. Allen Chen. Retrieved February 2 2021.
  3. Dear Martin Book Summary, by Nic Stone. Allen Chen. Retrieved February 2 2021.
  4. Dear Martin. Grade Saver. Retrieved February 2 2021.