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Download full textPollard, Deborah Smith – CEA Forum, 2009
In his frequently anthologized short story "The Sky Is Gray," Ernest J. Gaines presents a fictionalized account of a series of events that occurred in 1940s Louisiana when he was a mere boy suffering with a bad toothache. This physical ailment serves as a narrative catalyst, both driving the action and pulling the readers into a world…
Descriptors: Poverty, Fiction, African Americans, African American Literature
