Being honest with a true lover of your books..

[Tammy Riley]

Been reading your newest book and need to ask what was the realistic reason for the short about the black man hanging ,****ting the silver dollar..you really caught me off guard..but just asking the kind of day it was also ,raining,snowy,or just calm?

 

[GNTLGNT]

...please, re-visit the way you've phrased the question and one of us may be able to help....

 

[Spideyman]

I may misunderstand your question- but will have a go...... are you asking why SK used an African America/ black in the story? And what type of mood he was in when writing ( referring to weather as an example)?
The story was set in 1889- old west. Frontier justice. SK uses characters that fit the reality of life, the times and the way people reacted to situations.

 

[do1you9love?]

I may misunderstand your question- but will have a go...... are you asking why SK used an African America/ black in the story? And what type of mood he was in when writing ( referring to weather as an example)?
The story was set in 1889- old west. Frontier justice. SK uses characters that fit the reality of life, the times and the way people reacted to situations.

I am not near my book right now, but will have to look again tomorrow. I read this when it was first released, then again when I got BoBD. I DO NOT remember it saying the man who was hanged was black!

 

[Spideyman]

I am not near my book right now, but will have to look again tomorrow. I read this when it was first released, then again when I got BoBD. I DO NOT remember it saying the man who was hanged was black!

do1you9love? Wow- I just realized I do not recall him being "black" either. I basically answered on what the OP said-- black man hanging--, and trying to explain why SK uses a variety of ethnic characters. OK, Scott was right, we need a better wording on the original question.

 

[not_nadine]

The question was worded to get a reaction?

It is a fine story.

 

[GNTLGNT]

...I gave this some thought....and if she is indeed referring to the story "A Death", there is no reference at all to the ethnicity of the "accused"...just his apparent sly, yet simple-mindedness....there were several occasions where the term "black" was used-but not as skin color, more to the color of the sky, the color of his soul and in one instance-the mother of the murdered child calls him a "black liar", but that's a pejorative as to his heart than anything else...not sure why it caught the OP "off guard", it's not King's first foray into Westerns for heaven's sake, and he has insulted purt near all races within the contextual development of his tales....and the weather?....I don't feel this had anything to do with the mood of the story....also, if you're trying to make some type of insinuation that King was being "racist" you really need to re-read this tale and get to know his body of work much better, not to mention the man himself.....

 

[not_nadine]

yeah. I must re-read. Admit, read it fast first time. I do not recall any mention of race.

I think we have a starter of things here, tet. To make trouble when it is not due.

 

[Spideyman]

If anything, the OP is causing many of us to re read the story.

 

[not_nadine]

profile page.

 

[Spideyman]

profile page.

not_nadine . Read that after I made my first post.

 

[not_nadine]

not_nadine . Read that after I made my first post.

Fiction writer? Hopefully.

Welcome to the boards and please do explain your poll.

 

[mal]

She said "***ting"!

 

[not_nadine]

 

[muskrat]

That she saw the character as black (if indeed that's what she meant), kinda says more about her than it does King. Just saying.

 

[blunthead]

That she saw the character as black (if indeed that's what she meant), kinda says more about her than it does King. Just saying.

Some folks are hypersensitized to the word "black".

 

[muskrat]

Some folks are hypersensitized to the word "black".

What do you mean, some folks?

Derf! Heh.

 

[blunthead]

What do you mean, some folks?

Derf! Heh.

Nobody special. (Troublemaker. Oops, that'd be me.)

 

[not_nadine]

black black black black ..black.

Sorry, just barking.

 

[blunthead]

black black black black bbb..black.

Sorry, just barking.

I understand the sensitivity, but, just as sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, sometimes the word "black" is not a pejorative.