Response to the novel, Jubilee using a given prompt

Response to the novel, Jubilee using a given prompt

Yearning for freedom and acceptance is a theme of Jubilee. Vyry, along with the other slaves, hope and dream to someday be free. Though they attain freedom from slavery in the story, they did not achieve equality. The neighors still looked down on her family after they were freed. They had little political power: to keep them quiet, the Ku Klux Klan attacks many, including Vyry's family.

Coming of age is a major theme of Jubilee. The novel begins when Vyry is a young child and begins working in the Big House and documents her experiences working for Master John and Miss Salina with Aunt Sally and Lucy, meeting Randall Ware, and having children. Vyry goes from a useless slave to the woman in charge. She cares for Miss Lillian in her time of need. The reader follows Vyry in her journey from the one place in the world she knew to new places with new hardships. She moves with her family and new husband, Innis Brown, from place to place and problem to problem. The book shows Vyry growing through these predicaments.

The novel begins with the death of a slave, Sis Hetta. Hetta was the mother of many of her master's children, who all became his slaves. The plotline follows the life of Hetta's youngest daughter, Vyry.

After the death of her mother, Vyry is put to work in the big house as Miss Lillian's personal servant. Because Lillian is the daughter of the master as well, Vyry and she are technically half sisters and hold a striking resemblance to each other. However it is extremely frowned upon when this issue is brought up. She has a difficult time adjusting and often makes mistakes and is harshly punished by Big Missy, the wife of Master "Marse" John Dutton. She learns quickly to obey and learns skills from Aunt Sally, another slave, who acts as Vyry's mother. Vyry has a very difficult and traumatizing childhood. As a young girl, she experiences the deaths of many slaves close to her, attends a public execution, and sees another slave branded. Aunt Sally is sold and Vyry becomes the cook of the household at a young age.

Vyry meets a free black man named Randall Ware who promises to buy her freedom if she marries him. She sees him secretly and ...