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Witness, A Classic Novel Witness, a Newbery Medal awarded novel, was matchless of the some novels created by Karen Hesse, a wonderful author who has taught kids and children about the past, has make a very interesting book about career that exists on a foundation of separatism and hatred. Racism as we all agnize it is very disturbing, annoying, and is not tolerable. This story is based on life on a foundation of segregation and dangers of racism. This one novel is placed in a small, under-populated city of Vermont, where a family of three, the Sutters, another family of 3, the Hirschs with a caring person, named Sara Chickering, and many people face many problems and solutions in their lives. As racism continues on to thrive in the town, Esther Hirsh, becomes a preadolescent girl who also faces variety only because she was a Jewish. In the same school as Esther, was a young African-American girl named Leonora who faces bully about almost every(prenominal) d ay, and everywhere, just because of her race. Her family is very well in poverty, and her amaze is badly sick. She died afterward that month. In one quote,Why cant white family leave me alone?(P7), explains how excruciating racism was. As the storyline progresses into the warmheartedness of the story, Leonora saves Esther from a passenger train, everybody knows it as the Heaven Train. Esther wanted to meet her mother on the train who died when she was just a tiny little young girl, perhaps at the age of four or five. Leonora understood her scarce she didnt want her to go because Esther was perhaps her only best friend. top in the transition from the beginning of the story, Esther also saved Leonoras life from the chilling winter cold. Sara Chickering, the caretaker of Esther, fina... ... the bridge to convince Johnny to get cover song down. Im afraid of the Klan, he said. Then he surprisingly just jumped.All these scenes were all real, it all happened from 1920-1927. Karen witnessed a lot of horrors, barely also some happiness. She did that by just simply writing books, novels and poetry. She generally writes her novels in poetic form, what everybody does not usually do. This book inspired me and a lot to perhaps write a lot about the past, and value and appreciate the present and what will happen in the future. It also taught me many lessons about the important things, like the history of the KKK and what they did, also the history of segregation and how this country was broken up into pieces and how they were sawn back together. So this book is a very useful tool in learning and understanding and should be brought down from generation to generation...