Kite Runner – The Kite Runner is about a young boy who grows
up feeling guilt from an action in the past and wants to redeem himself for it
in the future. This is similar to The Book of Negroes because the book starts
off with Aminata as a young girl with a drastic event that made her want to
share her story in the future. I believe these books are suitable for the ISU
project because in both books the protagonist starts off young wanting to
achieve a goal all their life. Also, this will probably result in similar
obstacles in both books such as the violence in The Kite Runner since the
setting is in Afghanistan and the violence in The Book Of Negroes because of
slavery.
Schindler's Ark (Schindler's List) – This book is about a
Nazi party member who saves 1200 Jews from concentration camps. It is a true
story with fictional dialogue; this is similar to The Book Of Negroes because
even though The Book Of Negroes has a fictional story the events were real.
Both books are about discrimination and are based around similar historic
events therefore they have very similar themes such as dehumanization in the
holocaust and slavery.
Atonement – This book is about a woman’s life in the
nineteenth century; similarly to The Book Of Negroes the book is set up into
parts. The first part is about the woman’s childhood in England and her talent
is writing, which is similar to Aminata’s talent for reading, and writing. The
second part is her life during the war, which is also similar to the American
Revolution in The Book Of Negroes. The last two parts are about her life as she
grows older and writes a book about her life changing the facts and making it
more of what she wanted to happen. Since in both books the main themes are education,
reading and writing the books will be very comparable.
