SuitabookMare's war
Tanita S. Davis
- Reading
- Try reading a present-day chapter alongside the following chapter about Mare’s past. Pause to compare what the sisters notice with what readers learn about her earlier choices.
- Themes
- Two timelines, one family story: Chapters alternate between the sisters’ road trip with Mare and her experiences as a teenager and WAC member. The structure sets Mare’s present-day role as a grandmother beside her earlier life, giving the reader two contexts for understanding her.
- Mare’s choices and independence: Mare’s earlier story includes leaving her home life in the South and joining the Women’s Army Corps during the Second World War. Mare leaves home as a teenager and joins the WAC, placing independence and wartime service in her story.
- Worth knowing
- Mare’s past includes growing up Black in 1940s Alabama, leaving home as a teenager and serving in Europe during wartime. A reader may want to talk through the historical setting and what military service involved.