The Nickel Boys is a book of fiction inspired by The Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Florida, where young men were subjected to extreme acts of social injustice, which sometimes led to their deaths.
For this assignment, I would like you to select a passage from the novel (from the beginning of the book up to page 168) where the author (Whitehead) shows his reader an act of injustice committed against one of the residents of the Nickel Academy. What is it about this section that made you choose it (For example, did it surprise or shock you? Did it teach you something that you were unaware of? You might point this out.)?
For the second part of your posting, I would like you to come up with a discussion question for your classmates about the reading. Your question might be something in the reading that you want to hear someone else’s opinion about. Your question might be something that you wonder about and want to discuss.
