When people think of stories such as 'Gone with the Wind', 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' or 'Driving Miss Daisy' they may consider epic tales of Romance, War and Friendship forged on unsettling times and cultural change.
On the surface this may bear some truth but I would also like to delve beneath the popular interpretations of these classic texts and popular culture and look at how exploring it's secondary characters will reveal subtext and layers of undisclosed insights into an unspoken, unseen, unheard world.
Mammy from 'Gone With the Wind'
Jim from 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'
Holke Colburn from 'Driving Miss Daisy'
All of these characters featured as African/American slaves, employees or friends
to/of their white slave owners/employers/friends. They were depicted as the loyal, sympathetic, long-suffering slaves/employees or confidants to their white counterparts and more-so as their moral conscience or compass.
In my Final Re-write I will re-write their stories, their script, their world in the form of a dialogue between these three characters.
They will congregate within a church setting discussing their daily lives...
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