The Importance of Family and Land One overriding theme of the saga that is The Glory Field is the value of kinship and relations. Myers expresses this idea by emphasizing the importance of the relationships between the generations of the Lewis family and their holding onto the land they own in Curry Island, South Carolina….
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Characters in The Glory Field by Walter Dean Myers
Aiken In the 1964 segment, Aiken is a player for Delaney High School, against whom Tommy Lewis plays hard. Annie Annie is Lizzy’s cousin in the 1864 segment of the novel. She does not understand why Joshua and Lem ran away. Bob Archer At the end of the 1964 segment, Bob Archer drives Tommy home…
The Glory Field: Summary
July 1753. Off the Coast of Sierra Leone, West Africa Muhammad Bilal is traveling on a slave ship from Africa, where he was captured by slave traders. He is trapped with other slaves in close quarters for a voyage of at least a month. Like the others, he suffers from pain and thirst, and longs…