![]() Nel resolves never to let any black man look at her this way. Nel notices that the black people sitting in the train are glaring at Helene for her deferential behavior. On the train ride to New Orleans, a racist train conductor shouts at Helene, but Helene only responds by flashing him a dazzling smile. ![]() When Nel is a young girl, Helene takes her back to New Orleans to visit her grandmother Cecile (Nel’s great-grandmother). Helene quickly acquired a reputation for being a highly respectable woman, and she raised her daughter to behave the same way. Wright brought Helene to live in the Bottom, and together they had a daughter named Nel. As a young woman, she married Wiley Wright, a cook. Helene was born in New Orleans, and raised by her grandmother, who taught her to be pious and moral. At first, the people of the Bottom ignore Shadrack, but eventually, National Suicide Day becomes an accepted part of the calendar.Īnother resident of the Bottom is Helene Wright. Every year, he walks through the streets, ringing a bell and yelling. ![]() ![]() ![]() Shadrack then proposes a holiday for the people of Bottom: National Suicide Day. He witnesses great violence in Europe, and returns to the Bottom a broken man. In 1917, he goes off to fight in World War I. In the 1910s, there is a man living in the Bottom named Shadrack. The novel takes place in the neighborhood of Bottom, in the city of Medallion, Ohio-a place which, at present, is a golf course for rich white people, but which used to be a thriving black community. ![]()
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