Midnight Without a Moon Literary Conflict
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Midnight Without a Moon by Linda Williams Jackson
By Lauren Ayube
Rose Lee Carter is a 13 year old African American girl living in Mississippi in 1955. She spends her days picking cotton and her nights dreaming of the North, where she can have a better life. Midnight Without a Moon is an important historical fiction novel about the coming of age during one of the most pivotal times in American history.
Storyboard Description
Create a storyboard illustrating examples of literary conflict in Midnight Without a Moon!
Storyboard Text
- Slide: 1
- Character Vs. Character
- Girl, can't you do anything right?
- Rose struggles with her grandmother, Ma Pearl. Ma Pearl is mean and abusive and makes Rose feel awful about herself.
- Slide: 2
- Character Vs. Self
- Ma Pearl is right. I am ugly.
- Rose suffers from a great deal of low self esteem due to her mother leaving and her grandmother's constant mocking of how dark her skin is.
- Slide: 3
- Character Vs. Nature
- Rose suffers greatly while working in the fields due to the extreme Mississippi heat.