The Gloryfield

The novel '"'The Glory Field'"' is a well written literature by Avi. The book takes you through generations of the Lewis family. The generations all have a certain character that are being held back by the chains of segregation. There are many triumphs and defeats in the novel showing what the Lewis family went through. The story has a symbol in it, and it is the shackles that were first worn by Muhammad when he worked in the Glory Field and in the decades the shackles get pasted from Lewis to Lewis.

The book starts-off with a little African boy named Muhammad. Muhammad is taken from his village and brought to The United States to be a slave. Muhammad endures a long ride in the bottom of a ship with many other passengers and is left down at the bottom of the ship to starve while watching people dying with the acrid smell of all the sweaty passengers. Muhammad eventually makes it to America and is the first to start work at the '"'Glory Field'"'. Muhammad showed valor and triumph alone in being able to survive a long boat ride like that.

The book finishes with Malcolm and Shep. Malcolm is a well-off pre-adult that has a band. Shep on the other hand is a crack-head and basically is what created the whole problem in this little story. Malcolm is asked by Luvenia to come down to the glory field for a family reunion and to bring Shep. Malcolm of course listens and brings Shep. But the problem is that when Malcolm gives Shep the money to buy a plane ticket to the glory field Shep wastes it all on crack. So Malcolm gets really mad but pulls himself together and decides that he and Shep could take the bus down to the field. So Shep and him take the bus and every things going fine but Shep throws-up because he"'"s de-toxing from staying away from drugs. So finally the bus driver stops for dinner and they go into the diner and eat and suddenly Shep has to throw-up and so he runs to the bathroom and the next thing they know the bus driver leaves them. So they get lucky and some waitress tells a truck-driver they missed the bus and he takes them down to the field. But the thing is they have to sit in the back of the truck and there"'"s cow hide in the back so it"'"s hard to breath. Eventually they get to the Field and Malcolm and Shep go right to sleep. The next morning they wake up and start working. In the end Malcolm gets the shackles and they