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NICKEL BOYS PART THREE - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Black advocacy group
      - Important part of AA representation
      - Callback to encyclopedia and innocence
      - has to handle a lot of letters
    - - KKK newspaper.
      - 'Dusty' suggests it is out of commission but still preserved.
      - Non-chalant tone exemplifies racist/segregationist origins
      - Racism is in every corner of thier lives
  - - - Speech lists atrocities and mistreatment towards blacks.
      - Our capacity to suffer: there are not limitations of suffering, but power to endure so.
      - Elwood's capacity: has already broken and has reached his breaking point
      - Impossible thing: shows the pessimism of Elwood and disillusionment towards King.
- - - - More major businesses open in Harlem
      - Increases the property value of their homes
      - Not really blacks vs. white, black people cause rise
      - Lower crime rates
      - Healthier economy
    - - Only 'unhealthy' supermarkets and McDonalds exist in Harlem, "obesity"
      - Competition towards local and smaller established businesses
      - More property value forces low-renters out
      - More people = more rent
      - White people going in is seen as 'stealing land from blacks'
  - - - shows difference in religion
      - Gospel suggests peace and harmony
      - Multiculturalism shows diversity in religion
    - - Redneck signs and black patrons contrast
        
        Faint connotations of racism
      - Ironic?
      - Ran by whites
      - Cultural Inappropriation
        
        White people cooking black people food
        
        Chinese hippie tattoo racist?
        
        Black people could be making this food too! And better
    - - Formerly for blacks, white people are comng
      - Anti white flight: whites coming back to Harlem is good?
      - Renamed from Harlem
    - - Thought to be racist; change shows no more racism
      - Racist presumptions in Elwood's thoughts still linger
      - Ambiguity: did she delay or not?
      - Progressive hippie isn't very considerate towards Chinese tattoo
    - - Useless boxes ignored
      - Fishing pole has no reason to be there
      - Paralel to dead old lady
- - - - Parallel to the White House
    - - Repetition show forboding
    - - slows down tempo
    - - contrasts romance in the last chapter
      - Time shift contrast
  - - - shows weakness in Spencer
    - - Parallels to Elwood
      - History repeats itself
        
        Like father like son
        
        Reminds the existence of history
        
        Humanisation of many characters shows vicious cycle that consumes all
    - - how was Elwood smart enough to mock Spencer??
      - (Racial) hierarchy has been destroyed
  - - - Grey is boring, ambigious
      - Light is hopeful
      - Elwood's fate is uncertain?
    - - not fazed with what happened
      - Un-biased horrors
      - Bare facts indicate rawness and disturbance
  - - - Elwood can no longer leap
      - He has lost hope and innocence
      - There is no victory over conscience and heart
    - - Elwood must value himself
      - Nickel is just a microcosm of society
      - Elwood loses hope because of society
      - Complete rejection of King
    - - Bitter Heaven
      - Righteous Path
      - Higher Imperative
      - Minor notes: i think Religious imagery also indicates loss of innocence and hope for Elwood; MLK being the GOd and guide of his life
  - - - Rescue indicates friendship and unification
      - Former academic achiever/loner
  - - - Sacrificial death
      - Parallel to Jesus' cross
      - Elwood is a religious figure, a martyr
    - - indicates the repeating cycle of violence
      - Similar to the three kids who survived the White House
      - Long corridor indicates no escape
      - Instead Turner is the one to live Elwood's life
- - - - Turner can now dine into the Richmond
      - Millie's nieces, black hostess
        
        indicates confident, new generation
        
        Girls in Nickel Boys! Girl power!
  - - - Follows Elwood's and MLK's teachings
      - No more animalistic "alley cat" now a loving man
    - - Death by gun and violence
      - Inspires other (ie Turner)
      - Pacifistic and idealistic in the change of racism
    - - Turner now wants Elwood's representation
      - Turner no longer silent, now adopts Elwood's ability to speak out