De Turkey and De Law: A Comedy in Three Acts Review

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by Zora Neale Hurston,
As I began reading this play, I noticed the similarities with The Mule-Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts. Actually it is another episode of life in this small Negro town in Florida. The play opens with the store scene. This is very funny and you recognize the same people doing and talking about the same things; just like a small town where everyone knows each other and dialogues continue day to day.
The two friends Jim and Dave are back again and so is Daisy. These two friends become enemies because they both imagine that Daisy prefers himself over the other. They both go out to hunt a turkey to give Daisy. The two young men fight over the turkey and one gets hit with a mule bone from the same old mule from the other play.
The Mayor has the one friend arrested for trial so he can run him out of "his" town. (The Mayor owns the town and he is the judge and jury, after all it's his town and he bought it and built it himself.) The trial was a Methodist vs. Baptist showdown. The insults fly. Very comical; as long as you don't look deeper into conflict between the two Christian faiths.
The last act is where the two friends meet up on the tracks outside of town. Daisy is also there. The two young men tell her they love her and she picks one to marry. She can get him a job working with her white folks. He refuses because he won't work. She tells the other she will marry him and he doesn't want to work either. She leaves the two friends on the tracks and they go back to town even though one was run out of town due to hitting his friend with the mule bone.
I recommend this book to anyone who can appreciate old time story telling with the un-varnished dialect and language Zora Hurston uses.
Thank you Kindle, I appreciate the free e-book.


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