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In his novel, Wolf Whistle, Lewis Nordan depicts a racist society. The society and the citizens within it are not only mean and nasty, but also self-absorbed. However, between narrating a loose account of a 14 year old black boy's murder and telling the stories of the citizens of Arrow Catcher, Mississippi, Nordan gives a sort of ray of hope for the future. Since the actual murder is somewhat a minor aspect of the novel, and the book lacks any real major black characters, readers may get the impression that this is a negative aspect of this book. In fact, that was the feeling that I got; it was as if the lack of concern for this murder implied how the whites actually viewed blacks, as not as important. Yet, maybe because of Bobo's murder, Nordan provides a kind of hope shown in some of the actions by the white characters.
But, what exactly is this hope? This hope is not to all of the sudden have a 180 degree turn and there be a type of utopia between races and classes. On the......

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