The books Midnight Without a Moon by Linda Williams Jackson and Searching for Silverheels by Jeannie Mobley. The first book the story takes place in Mississippi Stillwater of 1955. The second book takes place in the United States, Colorado respectively in 1914.
For the first mentioned book, the book is told by a teenage girl named Rose Lee that talks and complains about her life in Stillwater, Rose talks about the black people not having any matter in the society, any weight. Especially in her little town were the Robinsons, a family of white spoiled people, who thought that they were superior just because of their color and treated the colored ones like puppets.Any rights, houses, stores, malls, models, nothing they were like the end of the world there. Unfortunately because of Mr.Robinson being the mayor and being a white person, he demanded a lot of things that made that little city the most awful thing in Mississippi, he didn’t let anyone unless his family was in the power of the city, making their powersource running. So everything the white ones demanded they should do. But it wasn’t just bad things, Mrs.Robinson used to give things to the city folks, ruined things, some things maybe usable or not. The Robinsons had a rule that the city folks should use everything they gave them and that the robinsons should see it. In Stillwater the Robinsons “killed” (sended someone) most people that would vote for the best person in power, since they weren’t the best option in the city. The Robinsons didn’t like the black ones.The black people were their money source.So that’s why Rose wanted to make a difference and worked very hard to change it, she was the best student of the class, and she believed that she could give her family a better life and could chance the city spirit o Stillwater.
In the second book, it’s also told by a teenager Pearl that lives with her mom and her brother, she does have a dad but he is working in the mines. She lives in Park County. The story is told In the period of World War I.This book is literally about history, the woman wanting the right to vote the men going to World War I, and trying to make revolutionary changes, just like nowadays women can vote and have many rights then in that time, the world war I changed a lot of things as well. However the books were really different in the part of their city and their life budget. In the first book Midnight Without a Moon, life was hard and thought just like Rose’s grandma, a woman who was never down crying or being sentimetal. Unfortunately those who lived in Mississippi couldn’t let anything pass unseen.They lived like they were in a war afraid of what would happen next if they would die or if they would be lucky enough to live. Maybe be able to study, raise a family, and provide a successful future. Most of the grown people most of them had never finished school, most of them didn’t even get the chance to go to high school. Their life was based on being “slaves” for the Robinsons Searching for Silverheels, differently from Midnight without a moon their life was normal as usual life, they weren’t rich like the Robinsons but not poor like the lee’s. Actually they had a really good life condition. They lived by a train station where it was really busy which was good for their cafe.
The cafe was known for Pearl’s mother’s apple pies, the most famous in the city; everybody loved it . It was always full of people. Pearl always thought about a fairytale like the one she dreamed of with George, a handsome boy in the city that every girl was in love with, but no one dated him because of his mom Mrs.Crawford he was like a baby still for her(sorry for him). Pearl always wanted him to ask her for a winter ball and things like that, but her friend asked her to get over it and she asked herself, but she didn’t accept. But as always there is someone to ruin your fairy tail.Ms.Gilbert that was always in the coffee saying about the women’s right to vote and how ridiculous it was that they couldn’t vote. Perls hated her with all that she could because she simply entered into her family restaurant and started saying these things to the clients pushing them away.
Not likely Rose didn’t have a plan of the future but she wanted something big that could change history forever, but she wanted to discover who Silverheels was which would have a little impact that could change something and make the woman more likely to have rights.
Rose could be the first negro to go to college leave that town make Stillwater a good place to liveand do that if wasn’t for the Robinson in the power and Pearl could find out about the story of silverheels and her past, maybe become a writer or maybe continue her family’s legacyand bring more people to her cafe and the city help[ing and investing more in the city, making her and the city have a brilliant future.
