"The Best Bad Luck I've Ever Had"

"The Best Bad Luck I've Ever Had"

Setting Shapes The Plot

The setting of Moundville, Alabama 1917 had a lot to do with the plot of the story. Because it was so long ago, people were still very racist. In 1917 colored and white people were not aloud to do anything together. They couldn't go to the same schools or share conversations. Colored people were not treated with the same respect as white people. This was a sad period of time.

Cause and Effect

• In the story "The Best Bad Luck I've Ever Had" by Kristin Levine there is a very tragic page. It talks about how a white man, named big foot, was trying to shoot a colored man,named Doc Haley, but the Doc Haley found a gun and shot the Big Foot for self-defense. Even though it was for self-defense, Doc Haley was sentanced to Death.

Theme

Compare And Contrast

I chose friendship for the theme of the book because throughout the book it talks about how Emma and Dit, as friends, worked together to solve problems. They always stuck together and never let each other down. They were true friends.

Video

• Again, in the book "The Best Bad Luck I've Ever Had" it talks about how Emma, her dad, Dit, and his dad all went fishing together. They had all caught many fish and put them in a small pound. After a while, they went to look in the pound and found that the fish were gone. Poiseness snakes had gotten in the water and eaten the fish in the pound. Thats what they get for forgetting the bag.

• "The Best Bad Luck I've Ever had" has many different characters that they talk about. They all have different point of views on where they are and what life style they have.One of the main characters name is Dit. Dit likes his small town, but also wants to get out. He likes the way the walk around with no shoes on. Emma, on the other hand, started off hating the town and wanted to go back to Bosten. Now she has grown to like it because of her new found best friend. Big Foot is the sherif of the lovely little town. He is not so lovely though. He is always grumpy and not happy that colored people are living in his town,so you could say that he does not like the way his lifestyle is.Lastly, there is Doc Haley. Doc Haley is a colored barber that has a confusing relationship with Big Foot. Doc loves the way he is living.Besides Big Foot, he likes everyone around him. He has a great outlook on life.

The Best Bad Luck I've Ever Had

Exposition & rising action

Climax & Resolution

Climax- White and colored people were not very friendly to each other in this book named " The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had". White people make fun of, curse, and disrespected colored people.In this time whites' believed that colored people are not as important as them. Colored adults and kids were treated poorly.

Resolution- Emma and Dit worked together to bring the two races together. Now, in the city of Moundsville, the colored and white people work together to do things and don't put each other down. You could say that Emma and Dit saved their little city.

Exposition-Two kids named Emma and Dit fight for their freedom of being together. This all takes place in 1917 Moundville, Alabama. These two kids are two different races which means that the town does not aprove of them being friends. Their job is to try to bring the colored and the white people together, so that everyone will be treated equally.

Rising action- People in the town of Moundsville, Alabama were not very kind to the opposite race. White people were rude and mean to the colored, which led to anger twords the whites. This town was a very racist place. Mostly all towns were like this in 1917.

Picture Theme

In the book "The Best Bad Luck I've Ever Had" it talks about how colored and white people should not be around each other. They also say that colored people should not be treated with as much respect as white people. Throughout the book a girl named Emma and a boy named Dit befriend each other. The problem with this relationship is that Dit is a white boy and Emma colored. Throughout the book they fight to be together without being judged and bring the colored and white people together.