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Hey in my class were reading a book called Witness by Karen Hesse...if you read the book i want to know why it's called witness...im having a lot of trouble finding the right answer..can you please help me ???? thanks

2007-02-13 11:12:32 · 1 answers · asked by lala 1 in Arts & Humanities Books & Authors

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To bear witness is to experience first hand and then give or offer testimony.
This book is set up as poems from 9 different people's points of view. It's all about a small town in the 1930's that is virtually being taken over my the ku klux klan and changing the way that people think. All of the sudden it seems like you must be a witness of the ku klux klan to get anywhere in the city. People are getting married in white robes and putting "ku klux klan only" in the windows of their stores. Each person has a very different testimony to give though they are all equally interesting.
Hence it is called WITNESS because it deals with different eye-witnesses who give different accounts or testimonies of the events (as they witnessed them).
*curious after-thought: under what topic did the teacher assign the reading! YA may delete some words after I send my reponse!

2007-02-14 00:34:52 · answer #1 · answered by ari-pup 7 · 0 0

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