For A Song Below Water, it is more a story of uncovering. However, the novel was something of an adventure story, the two main characters trying to get from one point to another. If you read my setting study on I’m Not Dying With You Tonight by Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal, you would know that its general conflict trajectory followed the traditional climb, peak, then fall of the resolution. As for the story-beat study, warning: spoilers abound. Nothing will change unless those in the majority culture continue to educate themselves, refuse to let the bias of the news outlets sway their opinion, and help bring light to the battle that continues to quietly rage. Don’t let this get shoved under the rug, or else in another six months, we’ll be hearing about another fatal police shooting on the news. I’ll leave my sources and some follow-up links for you in the resources section down below. Can you imagine how terrifying that would be? People in heavy-duty gear detaining you, shoving you into a car and you don’t know where you’re going? If it is allowed to remain unchecked, there is nothing protecting peaceful protestors from meeting some “accident,” and no way to hold these unnamed, unknown officers accountable. It’s troubling that the news isn’t covering Portland, and how federal officers are using unmarked cars to arrest peaceful protestors and take them to an unknown location.

And while I feel it’s not my place to speak about these things, I do insist on taking the opportunity to remind people that the fight isn’t over just because we’re no longer hearing about it.

With Minneapolis (where George Floyd was murdered) moving to defund the police, coverage of protests faded as the news suggested George Floyd’s murder had come to something of a happy ending.īut the problem is not just with Minneapolis. To be honest, the behavior of most news outlets today is absolutely disgusting.

In the United State as a whole, news coverage over the BLM protests has become practically nonexistent, but it’s important to know they are still happening. The novel is relatively short in length–my hardback copy is 286 pages long–and it is divided up into a neat 20 chapters.īefore we get too far into the study, I did want to mention what is happening in Portland, Oregon (which is where the novel takes place) at the present date. Today, we return to it to study its pacing. Last week, I did a setting study of the urban fantasy novel A Song Below Water by Bethany C.

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