Themed Party challenge 48: movie posters
Movie adaptation of Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman
this was better in my head :/
Has anyone read this series? I just wikied it and it looks interesting. I could probably be convinced to find and read it.
Summary: This novel describes an alternate history where humans evolved while Pangaea was still intact. Without the barriers to exchange of domesticable animals, among other factors, the natives of Africa gained a technological and organizational advantage over the humans of Europe rather than the other way around, and made Europeans their slaves. At the time of the story, slavery has been abolished, but Jim-Crow type segregation operates to keep the Crosses (the Africans) in control. Also, the close proximity of the various nations of the world in a single supercontinent and the lack of natural defenses have forced the nations of the world to learn to cooperate. An organization called the Pangaean Economic Community exists, and seems to be similar to the UN in scope but similar to the EU in powers, and it is playing a role in forcing change.
Persephone ‘Sephy’ Hadley is a Cross (meaning that she has dark skin) and the daughter of a wealthy politician. Callum McGregor is a nought (meaning that he has light skin). They used to play together when Jasmine Hadley (Sephy’s mother)—employed Meggie McGregor (Callum’s mother) as a Nanny. However, Jasmine fired her when Meggie could not provide an alibi for Jasmine when her husband confronted her about his suspicions of her infidelity (this is only revealed later in the novel, though it is strongly implied). Since then, Sephy and Callum’s friendship has been secret. As best friends, their relationship is frowned upon by society, in the same way that interracial friendships in the South were thought of before 1960, but in reverse.
Yup, I would so read these.
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