Summary of Richard Grant's Dispatches from Pluto

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I met with Mike and his wife, Beth, who kindly offered to lend me the money to buy their house. I was grateful for the offer, but the American mortgage industry was acting sober and averse to low-level risks like me.
#2 I bought a house in Mississippi, and it was so easy that I was suspicious. Everyone was incredibly kind and helpful, and I had the sensation of hovering above myself as I signed 18 different legal documents.
#3 I had bought a house down near Yazoo City. I was moving in, and the man across the street told me the story of Emmett Till, a white boy who had been killed in Money in 1955. He had no sympathy for the boy whatsoever.
#4 I had a very different experience being a resident of Mississippi than a visitor. I realized that I couldn’t just write off the people of Money as racist, because they had suffered from racial violence and injustice for far longer than I had been alive.

Sujets

• Travel
• Essays
• Travelogues

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 31 juillet 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822564183
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Richard Grant's Dispatches from Pluto
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I met with Mike and his wife, Beth, who kindly offered to lend me the money to buy their house. I was grateful for the offer, but the American mortgage industry was acting sober and averse to low-level risks like me.

#2

I bought a house in Mississippi, and it was so easy that I was suspicious. Everyone was incredibly kind and helpful, and I had the sensation of hovering above myself as I signed 18 different legal documents.

#3

I had bought a house down near Yazoo City. I was moving in, and the man across the street told me the story of Emmett Till, a white boy who had been killed in Money in 1955. He had no sympathy for the boy whatsoever.

#4

I had a very different experience being a resident of Mississippi than a visitor. I realized that I couldn’t just write off the people of Money as racist, because they had suffered from racial violence and injustice for far longer than I had been alive.

#5

The Mississippi Delta is notorious for its mosquitoes, and our new house was in a particularly bad location for them. As the sun went down, mosquitoes by the thousands started crawling over the outside of the windows.

#6

I was setting up the stereo, enjoying the drama of the storm, when I heard an alarmed cry of Honey! The ceiling of the middle bedroom was leaking fat steady drops of rainwater. I found many wasps’ nests and an abundance of rodent droppings, but not the source of the leak.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The Raised Vegetable Beds behind the house were now four feet deep in a choking tangle of weeds and vines, and crawling with weird-looking beetles and other insects. The air conditioning system was struggling to keep the temperature below 82 degrees.

#2

I had so many things to do, I didn’t have time for my wife and mosquito bites. I called Mike Foose and told him about the leak in the roof, and he promised to call a roofer right away. I invited James Jefferson to stand in the shade by the levee, but he preferred to stand in the pecan tree.

#3

I began to see James as a individual, and grew more comfortable with him. I realized how much I had seen him as a representative of his race and class.

#4

The next day, our neighbors came over with a bottle of wine. Tanned and weathered with a white-flecked beard, Louie Thompson was quick to laugh. He seemed trustworthy and honorable, and his blue eyes had a steely hint.

#5

The Thompsons loved Lucy and Monk like family, and Cadi loved to go to black church, but they had a lot of negative things to say about black people who didn’t want to work and were on welfare.

#6

In a nation so divided over politics, it was heartening to see that our neighbors, the Thompsons, were extremely welcoming and kind. They took us under their wing and helped us feel less overwhelmed by our circumstances.

#7

The Thompsons had real love and respect for many of the black people who had worked for them, but they didn’t have any black friends who came over for dinner. They couldn’t help loving the Thompsons, while disagreeing with some of their views.