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    Yellow Crocus - Summarized for Busy People: Based on the Book by Laila Ibrahim
    Yellow Crocus - Summarized for Busy People: Based on the Book by Laila Ibrahim
    Yellow Crocus - Summarized for Busy People: Based on the Book by Laila Ibrahim
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    Yellow Crocus - Summarized for Busy People: Based on the Book by Laila Ibrahim

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    This book summary and analysis was created for individuals who want to extract the essential contents and are too busy to go through the full version. This book is not intended to replace the original book. Instead, we highly encourage you to buy the full version.

    A few moments after birth, Lisbeth is taken from the arms of her mother and immediately handed to those of a black wet nurse named Mattie. Mattie is a slave, and upon the orders of her master, she is forced to leave her own child and care for another. Lisbeth and Mattie then form an unlikely bond that grows only stronger through the years.

    Lisbeth comes to know a life of privilege and affluence, but neither is enough to ease away the loneliness brought by the company of her subservient mother and indifferent father. Over time, Mattie becomes more like family to her than her own flesh and blood. Their hearts grow even closer—their bond even stronger—with every visit to the quarters of the slaves as well as their warm, welcoming community.

    Laila Ibrahim's Yellow Crocus is a story set in the turbulent mid-1850s—a period when tensions are high and the country is at the brink of change. It tells of the bond between two women from opposite worlds—a love that is undimmed by time, unbound by race.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGoldmine Reads
    Release dateJun 20, 2018
    ISBN9781386876380
    Yellow Crocus - Summarized for Busy People: Based on the Book by Laila Ibrahim

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      Yellow Crocus - Summarized for Busy People - Goldmine Reads

      BOOK OVERVIEW

      Yellow Crocus is a work of historical fiction set in the mid-nineteenth century. It tells of a woman, a young girl, and how they came to love one another like mother and child. At a time when people were defined by race, the love that formed between them transcended their two very different worlds: one of white privilege and the other of black slavery.

      ABOUT THIS BOOK SUMMARY

      This book summary and analysis was created for individuals who want to extract the essential contents and are too busy to go through the full version. This book is not intended to replace the original book. Instead, we highly encourage you to buy the full version.

      This book summary serves as a guide to Laila Ibrahim's Yellow Crocus. No text of the actual book is included, so if you prefer, you may purchase a copy before you proceed.

      This guide includes a summary of the book chapters and a summary of the characters’ involvement to the plot. The summary of each chapter offers a brief review of events and some degree of insight regarding them. The guide to the novel's characters may be used as a reference as you go along. You may also prefer to delve into it after, for they contain spoilers and some commentary on several sections of the book you will want to have read before.

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      Yellow Crocus is the first novel ever written by Laila Ibrahim. Her manuscript was rejected by multiple publishers, and she was told that her story wasn't something people wanted to hear. On December 2010, she published Yellow Crocus by herself on Amazon, and she has been met only by success ever since.

      Laila Ibrahim also founded the Woolsey Children's School. As director, she has shared wonderful experiences with children that were never and could never be hers—experiences that somehow mirror the story of her book, Yellow Crocus.

      CHARACTER GUIDE

      Mattie (Georgia) is one of the two main characters of Yellow Crocus. She is married to a black man, a slave working in another plantation, called Emmanuel. Their two children are named Samuel and Jordan. Mattie is summoned to become a wet nurse for the newborn of the lady of the house, and she is forced to leave three-month-old Samuel in the care of her friend. She is frustrated, but she soon accepts that such is the fate of a Negro slave. The mistress' daughter named Miss Elizabeth has been under Mattie's care ever since she was born. Mattie does not expect that she will ever come to love Miss Elizabeth, but time soon proves her wrong.

      Mattie looks after Miss Elizabeth until Mattie becomes pregnant with her second child from Emmanuel. Miss Elizabeth is in her early teens at the time, and often visits the slaves' quarters to see Mattie and Jordan. Mattie eventually flees with Jordan to reunite with Emmanuel and Samuel as freemen in Ohio.

      Mattie serves a role both in Lisbeth's realization that how the blacks are treated is inhumane and in her

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