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Becky
A white outcast woman living on the edge of a black community.
minor
Also known as Becky Becky
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The white woman ostracized for having two Negro sons; lives in isolation and dies when her cabin's chimney collapses.
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- Fragments of community and tragedy
- Interracial romance and tragedy
- Southern women and lynching
- Protagonist
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- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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