![]() However, she struggles to maintain a relationship with some members of her family, among them her stepmother, Annabelle. Sunny has very close relationships with her family members and depends on them heavily, especially her father, her stepbrother, Gillette, her uncle Parnell and her maternal grandmother. ![]() ![]() Her father recently remarried, bringing a new stepbrother, stepmother, and sister into her already chaotic life. Meanwhile, Sunny’s home life is undergoing some dramatic changes. A very divisive issue, there are other people in Greenwood who support the movement even if it means that they are scorned by their own family and friends. ![]() Even some members of Sunny’s own family are frightened by the possibility and oppose the equal rights movement. Not everyone is open to the idea of change. Sunny doesn’t realize that these people have actually come to her town on a mission to fight for the rights of black people. ![]() Therefore, when she hears that invaders are coming to Greenwood, she is shocked and assumes that they are malevolent. Having grown up in this town all her life, twelve-year-old Sunny is rather sheltered, knowing relatively little of the racial strife brewing around the country. Revolution (2014) by award-winning author Deborah Wiles is set in 1964 in the town of Greenwood, Mississippi. ![]()
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