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Myop
Myop is a 10-year-old Black girl who lives with her family in a sharecropper cabin in the South. As a pre-adolescent, she is near the point of transition from childhood to young adulthood. What’s more…
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Minor Characters
Mother
Myop’s mother is mentioned once when Myop recalls going into the woods with her.
The Dead Man
Myop encounters the dead man’s corpse in the woods and realizes that he was lynched. His presence in the woods comes to represent the country’s racist violence, which Myop will no longer be able to ignore.
