On the night of a lynching, the speaker describes the smoke rising from the victim’s corpse and a lone star that abides over the scene. He then describes the indifferent crowds that come to see the remains and the children that play happily around the body the following morning.
The Question and Answer section for The Lynching is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
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In the year before McKay published "The Lynching," 76 black men and women were lynched, the highest number in 15 years, and records suggest that 4,743 people—3,446 of them black—were lynched between 1882 and 1968, though many lynchings also went...
Inthink the mood uses a sense of irony to convey a feeling of horror and tragedy.
