![]() ![]() ![]() In The Underground Railroad, the narration switches perspectives. ![]() Why do you think Whitehead chose to include these scenes? ![]() Many of the scenes on the Randall plantation are graphic.Days before Cora decides to leave, a man is brutally tortured for an escape attempt.How is your understanding of slavery in America different now than it was before reading the book? Did it prompt you to do any more research or find out any other stories about people who escaped?.The Underground Railroad Book Club Questions This continues with violence throughout the book, but also on the settlement in South Carolina where doctors are sterilizing women without their knowledge and intentionally infecting men with syphilis to “study” how the disease progresses. This starts on the plantation with the slave owners, but even between the enslaved people on the plantation with how Cora has to destroy the dog house built on her mother’s plot of land. Colson Whitehead is the 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad, which in 2016 won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and the National Book Award and was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, as well as The Noble Hustle, Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex. Another theme throughout the novel is that of fear, especially fueled by brutality. ![]()
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