How Did I Get Away with Killing One of the Biggest Lawyers in the State? It Was Easy

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Titel: “How Did I Get Away with Killing One of the Biggest Lawyers in the State? It Was Easy” (1981)
Forfatter: Alice Walker
Genre: Novelle

Alice Walker (f. 1944) er en amerikansk forfatter og digter. I dag er hun kendt for romanen The Color Purple (1982), som hun fik Pulitzerprisen i litteratur for. De fleste af hendes værker er realistiske og fokuserer på afroamerikaneres liv. “How Did I Get Away with Killing One of the Biggest Lawyers in the State? It Was Easy” er en del af novellesamlingen You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down.

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The title of the short story— “How Did I Get Away with Killing One of the Biggest Lawyers in the State? It Was Easy”—is very detailed and reveals much of the plot. The title clearly indicates the plot is about someone who killed a lawyer and got away with it. However, the title might be slightly misleading as readers might expect to discover a villain narrator.

As we read the story, we realize that the narrator is a young African-American girl who grew up in poverty and was deprived of affection. She ends up killing the lawyer who raped her and made her his mistress, as well as who put her mother in an asylum. In other words, the story focuses on why the narrator killed the lawyer, drawing attention to important social issues: African-American rights, the gap between the rich and the poor, and rape.

 

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