The Wedding is a book surrounding a colored family and their lives from slavery through the 50s. Written by Dorothy West, the story is about the Coles family and their last daughter Shelby who is soon to be married to Meabe Wyler, a white jazz musician. The story starts off at the oval where the Coles are occupied for the summer for Shelby to be wedded. Lute Mcneil and his three daughters are also introduced in the story with Lute braiding his daughter's hair. Shelby starts to think about when she was a young girl and got lost by trying to return a lost dog back home. Shelby's great-grandmother who is a white woman, her dying wish is to see Shelby marry a white man so that the next generation of their family could be whiter looking. Shelby's great-grandmother had a daughter named Josephien who was very sick and ended marrying a black man named Hannibal because she was poor. Josephien and hannibal had a baby which was Shelby's mom. Shelby's mom married a white man and then they had Shelby and her sisiter. Is the summer wedding really going to take place?
"So they slowly rocked in their chairs, staring at the incomming tied and praying it held no cruel surprises" (West 64).
The quote speaks to me because it is describing an action. I love when authors use literary devices to place a setting. And the word slowly can impact the rest of the book dramatically. But I wonder if there are going to be any cruel surprises.
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