Little Scarlet
the novel Little Scarlet by Walter Mosley, the protagonist faces inner-conflict when he is chosen to lead an investigation for the LAPD. The author makes the conflict real for the reader through imagery and allusion. The racial tensions between the people in L.A. throughout the book are truly real and able to be experienced. Walter Mosley uses these tangible literary devices to show the reader the heartfelt pain that the main character, Easy Rawlins, feels, and in the same way smoothly resolves Easy's inner conflict. He feels that by proving the innocence of a white man, and taking time away from his family he is doing a wrong thing, but when he comes to think about it he feels that by helping the police he is working for a just cause.
Easy Rawlin's inner conflict is whether or not he is betraying his African American community when working for the LAPD. The author portrays this clearly by the imagery in which the characters describe each other. In Watts, I 1965, right during the......
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