How Long to Read Rotten Apples

How Long Does it Take to Read Rotten Apples?

It takes the average reader 8 hours and 36 minutes to read Rotten Apples by Patricia Ellyn Powell

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Poetry, one of history's oldest art forms, gives social credibility to creation. Within every culture, past or present, poetry gives insight into collective identity. Poetry is a universal language that all human beings hear, speak, and understand. Brother David Sawyers belongs to the human family. And he loves, feels, and knows great truths and lyrically expresses them in the pages that follow. As a creative Ethiopian descendant from Jamaica, David Sawyers' nature is unquestionably dynamic. He came forward from the mighty mountains and rolling hills, which suggest in itself a firm commitment to the struggles for unity. This skillful brother uses the word as power to convey life's realities. He dialectically utilizes the power of words ugly and beautiful, weak and strong. His words are convictions, commitments, truth of old-don't cry, rejoice. Herein are Ethiopian realities-confinement, chaotic experiences and dreams of mystery Babylon. Brother David, like David in the Bible, best describes his observations when he chants that "it's over 400 years and we (INI) have not been broken . . . still striving . . . nor begging anything . . . now demanding . . . Judah rules" (21). Like black poet Langston Hughes, his stylistic approach represents continuity and empathy. Rare poetry. Forerunners of new black poetry are Amiri Baraka, formerly LeRoi Jones, but there are also others whose impacts are tremendously important. Poet such as David Sawyers, a good man and scholar, humble, patient, angry at times, and always . . . Exodus (Movement of Jah people). One may have heard the rhythmic lyrics of dub poets, including Mutaburuka, Sam Brown, Oku Onuora, and Ras Pidow to name a few; now read Sawyers "The Heroes of my Country" (24). He brings to life Paul Bogle and Quashi, in myth and wit in Briar Anancy and Tacoma, Sam Sharp, Nanny, Chugghu, and Marcus Garvey. Combined is history and class, working people rights, and survival in the multiracial nonracial way. These poetic words pull many forward in life. Read on, I say in a "Terrible Thing to Waste" (7). His confinement today is of no surprise when so many are whisked off to prisons because of mans inhumanity to man: Caribbean phenomena of which glimpses are heard in his poetic voice . . . Caribbean Basin Initiative ... Caricom and heads of Caribbean judgments/politics, and their failure to find economic answers "The Calamities of Yesterday" a legacy of colonialism (39). Then Migration- the problems encountered by many migrants on another plantation (U.S.A.) "O That's an Amusing Hell"(60). David is a black man of principle, undoubtedly an Ethiopian intellectual, who if given a fair and equal chance could help mankind find salvation. For his uniqueness is his answers/identity to Ethiopianism, that cannot be stopped delayed yes! But not stopped . . . read on. Takuma Umoja (ndk) Guyana

How long is Rotten Apples?

Rotten Apples by Patricia Ellyn Powell is 512 pages long, and a total of 129,024 words.

This makes it 173% the length of the average book. It also has 158% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Rotten Apples Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 45 minutes to read Rotten Apples aloud.

What Reading Level is Rotten Apples?

Rotten Apples is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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