![]() That’s something that hasn’t changed” (1-2). Acres of prairie and blackwater and cypress and pine captures as lines on bits of paper. ![]() How they love those little guides with their safe paths through the swamp, all dotted out and color-coded. I do have to remind myself of that when they come carrying maps. “My business with mankind is not, strictly speaking, that of the predator. The text is in the sinuous voice of the golden alligator, the one who can change a fate when the red sickle moon has risen. The first pages of Tumble and Blue are framed with a woodcut of trees and swamp. ![]() (Keep watch for another post on Tumble and Blue coming this spring.) I want to examine how Beasley shifts points of view, and the effects of these shifts in telling this compelling friendship story. ![]() The story transitions between the alligator’s direct addresses to the reader and a close third person point of view, starting with Blue and including Tumble and, at the end, Tumble’s mother. Set near and in the Okefenokee Swamp, the story follows these two friends as they attempt to change Blue’s fate. ![]() What comes next is the story of two of their descendants, the cursed-to-lose Blue Montgomery and the super-hero-obsessed Tumble Wilson. The opening two pages reveal an ancient story of two people who attempted to claim a changed fate under the Red Sickle Moon. Tumble and Blue begins with a sly-talking golden alligator. ![]()
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