Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County

Seven chapters into the book, it's interesting to see how Green combines her personal life with the historical facts of racism and it's impact/unfortunate effects. I think that reading about it from her perspective is definitely much more different than seeing it on the Little Rock video. The big difference is that Kristen Green didn't really experience racism herself, at least not like colored people did, especially in Little Rock Arkansas. Leaving her close-minded town exposed her to different people of different races and I think she began to see them differently too. No longer a rarity, like the mixed couple in the beginning of the book. Perhaps it made her a little more liberal, as her town definitely still held conservative values.

I would say that as a person, leaving the town made her realize the deeper issue that was within the town. I remember her saying that everyone remembers it for how beautiful it was, the scenery, the peacefulness, but they didn't know the ugly side of the it and that was the racism that had existed for decades. That, unfortunately, wasn't as talked about and so it became her mission to start that conversation.