Dear John Lewis,

 

      The book “March” is very compelling. How it starts off with the Church and the intense set of events that occur right after. This book is about how you and many other civil rights leaders fought for the rights of everyone. How the communities were split up with one side fighting for equal rights and the other side is to keep segregation. This book also goes from the present 2009 to 1963 when you meet the new president of the United States.

        When I was reading the book, the imagery made it feel even more powerful because I was actually seeing how it happened. It wasn’t just my imagination but someone else’s memory put on to drawings. The part that had really shocked was when those four little girls were killed in the church and the only thing left to see was her shoe. It made me think about how much society has changed since the 1960s, but at the same time shows how much more we have to go. Because although we are “equal”, there are a lot of problems that  I was wondering why you decided to start the book off that way, what was the reason for starting in a severe way. 

            A solution that I would like to propose would be, to have gathered more national attention for the death of those little girls and the two young men and state what the cause of hate could do to communities so that the rest of the people and the citizens could see what was happening in the south. 

                            

                                                                                           Sincerely, 

                                                                                                      Carmen Guzman