This Child’s Gonna Live Review

Title                             : This Child’s Gonna Live

Writer                          : Sarah E. Wright

Page                            : 253

Publisher and Year      : Dell Publishing Co., 1975

Genre                          : Fiction

I’ll do everything for my children

Mariah Uphsur, a strong religious black woman worked everyday with her husband, Jacob Upshur in the land named Tangierneck to fulfil the needs of their children, Skeeter, Rabbit, and Gezee. In Tangierneck, black people were treated as slaves. They were poor and have no milks, even they couldn’t get bank’s help if there was no white people who guaranteed. The white people who own the land was Miss Bannie Upshire Dudley, and everybody hated her.

Mariah was pregnant, but she was afraid that her child would not survive to live because her last daughter, Mary was died. The poverty was all the reasons. So, she decided to move from Neck to get a better live. In other hand, Jacob believed that they had to stay. He was sure he could regain the land from the white people, and made the Neck’s better live.

The best character in this novel is Mariah Upshur. She was the toughest woman character. She will do everything to make her children can survive in this cruel world. And also she is a religious person. Anytime she’s got a problem, she always talks with her God and asks for help. Although everybody humiliates her, she still does the best for her children.

The best part of this inspiring novel is, the part when Mariah born her youngest child. She expects that she will bear in the hospital, unfortunately she didn’t. She bears her child in her house without a doctor. It is a tense part. Another best part is when everybody, include Jacob was surprised with the baby’s color. The new daughter’s skin was not black which is like her parents, but it was white, just like white people’s baby. I think it is the most surprising and interesting part.

The best expression that represents this novel is, “Want you to grow up to be somebody. Not a body like me.” (Sarah E. Wright, p. 244). I think all parents in the world will agree with this sentence. Of course they want their children will be a better person, education, and life than them in the future

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D.K.D