Color Me Dark

Title: Color Me Dark

Author:Patricia C. McKissack

Hours:2

Pages:85

Nellie Lee is excited because her uncle Pace is coming home from the war. But when he came home she wasn't jumping up and down anymore. Uncle Pace arrived in a wooden crate and the police claimed that uncle Pace became drunk and passed out on the train tracks just as a train was about to pass through. After a few days Nellie's sister Emma Jean stops talking. Nellie refers Emma Jean as "a lifeless ghost who lingers around the house and eats our food." After many months Emma Jeans begins to talk. She the first person she talks to is Nellie. She says that uncle Pace wasn't dead the day he came home. She tells Nellie that she sunk down stairs and saw that uncle Pace was out of the box. At first she thought it was a ghost,but it was really him. He told her that some white soldiers from the enemy lines beat him until he passed out then poured whisky on him and threw him on the tracks. Shortly after that uncle Pace died. Nellie is filled anger and revenge. she wants to find out who killed her uncle and caused her sister to go mute because she was afriad. Nellie vowed to her sister that she'd fine these men and bring them to justice. She will do what ever it takes to find them. Even if she has to pretend that she white girl for a while.