BOOK REVIEW #5 THE SECRET OF MAGIC

        What a lovely story coming from a black woman. I would never expected that the author was African American, given the way she wrote was so beautifully crafted and her English was so good, easily understand but yet the way of words flow through the ink was so sophisticated.

        This novel is about a young woman lawyer, which is not common during that time, let alone a black woman. It is during the time in the US when white people triumph over black people. It is gradually changing, the perspective it is. Black people were not discriminated against white anymore. But in Mississippi, it was still the same. The black was treated like slave. Though there are some successful black there, it was small community.

        When a black soldier named Joe Howard was murdered during his way back home to Mississippi, and his murder did not get justice in court, it broke his father. That’s when Regina was called by M.P. Calhoun, an author of a controversial, banned kid’s story book which Regina loved as a kid to help in the case, she was more than happy.

Little did she know, it was not easy as it seemed.

M.P. Calhoun was not like what she expected. The town as well. It didn’t take her a long time to discover the truth. It was not a mystery case. It was a case of racial conflicts.

The murderer was a white man, an influential man to be exact.

In Mississippi, when white man killed a black man, he still roamed free, bragging to his friends, that he did killed Joe Howard. To teach him a lesson, he said.

        As I go through the book, I kind of guessed, giving the whole situation, there’s no way Regina can pressed charged on the murderer. It was impossible. Knowing the fact, Joe Howard’s father take matter into his hands.

        The concern here, when a black man killed white man, and surrendered right after that, he might not survived.

        But Mr Willie Willie was a good man, his acquaintances mainly white people, tried their best to give him a fair trial. Despite him being black and all.

        This is not something common. There’s more in the connection between them. The white probably feel bad for what happened to Mr Willie Willie’s son, but giving the situation, they might be helpless in a way.

        At first, I was angry and feel wronged at the old man. The whole town knew the fact that Wynne Blodgett killed Joe Howard, without any sense of remorse. But nothing can be done. That’s because Blodgett owned half the town. And I can feel that Regina’s effort was hopeless. It’s getting into my mind. 

IMPOSSIBLE.

        But when Peach was killed in a fire set by Wynne, Mr Willie Willie knew he had to be stopped. There will be no more killing. In order to do that, Wynne need to be disposed, just like how Luther was in the Secret of Magic book. So it did. And the case was gone. There’s nothing can be done anyway. But it taught them a lesson. No matter how bad the white treat the black, they were still human. And human felt indebted toward each other. And as human, they respected each other’s existence. The white slowly accepted the black as fellow human.

It’s the change that matters.