Workbook for The Water Dancer: A Novel (Max-Help Workbooks) E-Book

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• Herausgeber: MaxHelp
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

Complete beginners can use this workbook for The Water Dancer: A Novel by Ta-Nehisi Coates  and find immediate help in applying its major lessons.

The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates’ i2019 novel tells of a story about Hiram Walker, a superhuman protagonist, who holds a photographic memory. However, he cannot remember his mother. He can transport people in impossible distances using his powers that they call “conduction”. The power that Hiram possesses can fold the earth like fabric and lets him travel across places via the waterways. Conduction though can only be triggered by strong and powerful memories such as Hiram’s mother. Later on, Hiram becomes involved in the Underground Railroad and was able to escape Philadelphia. He eventually met Moses, a famous member of the Underground, who also has the same powers as him. Moses taught Hiram how to use his conduction powers with Hiram hoping that one day he would be able to free men and women from slavery with the use of it. 
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates is one of the book selections for Oprah’s Book Club. It was named as one of Paste’s best novels of the decade and one of Time’s best books of the year. It was also nominated for the NAACP Image Award.

Do you want to apply the major lessons to your daily life? The goal of this workbook is to help even the newest readers apply what may be the most critical lessons found in The Water Dancer: A Novel by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Results have shown that learning is retained best through repeated hands-on applications. With Max Help Workbooks, readers will be able to find distilled information categorized into major lessons with applicable exercise worksheets to maximize learning.

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Workbook for

The Water Dancer (Oprah’s Book Club):

A Novel

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Max Help Books

By Dan Young

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Table of Contents

How to Use This Workbook for Enhanced Application

The Background Story of The Water Dancer

Executive Summary of The Water Dancer

Lesson #1: The Water Dancer is Ta-Nehisi Coates’ first fiction novel.

Lesson #2: Hiram Walker was born in bondage.

Lesson #3: Hiram Walker is struggling not just because of slavery but also of racism.

Lesson #4: Hiram Walker has an extraordinary ability to have a photographic memory where he can photographically recall everything he encounters.

Lesson #5: Hiram Walker was amazed to discover that he possesses another supernatural ability called Conduction.

Lesson #6: Hiram Walker got involved with the Underground Railroad.

Lesson #7: Hiram eventually learned to accept the superhuman ability that he has.

Lesson #8: With Moses help, Hiram learned how to use, access, and control his Conduction powers.

Meet the Author: Ta-Nehisi Coates

Bonus Worksheet

How to Use This Workbook for Enhanced Application

Complete beginners can begin using this workbook for The Water Dancer (Oprah’s Book Club): A Novel by Ta-Nehisi Coates to get immediate help from the major lessons found in this book.

The goal of this workbook is to help even the newest readers to begin applying major lessons from The Water Dancer (Oprah’s Book Club): A Novel

by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Results have shown us that learning is retained better through repeated real-life applications.

By using this workbook, readers will find categorized lessons that we believed were major in defining the crucial messages of the author in the book. There are questions devoted both for self or corporate usage and actionable steps through charts and analysis tables to stimulate a continued engagement with the main lessons in the book.

Take out a pencil, pen, or whatever digital technology you would put to use to jot down, implement, and make happen. And don’t forget to have fun - that’ll also keep you learning.

The Background Story of The Water Dancer

The Water Dancer is a novel written by Ta-Nehisi Coates. The book is the author’s first novel that he began writing around the years of 2008 and 2009. Coates said that it all started back at The Atlantic when he was still blogging a lot about Civil Wars. He stated that he got captivated by the world he was inhabiting through the histories.

When Coates finished his first memoir entitled The Beautiful Struggle, he was then encouraged by his agent to write a fiction novel. During those times, Coates was widely researching about the civil war and slavery. He admitted that he was influenced by American novelist and Professor E.L. Doctorow. Coates was amazed at how Doctorow almost reinvented history and how he made history in his own kind of way. Coates also noted how he was moved by Doctorow’s novels Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, and The Waterworks. Coates’ childhood love of comic books and the idea of heroes, in general, was also part of the things that motivated him. While Coates was researching for information about the civil war, he found out that a lot of people that were thought to be heroes were actually straight-up white supremacists. He felt frustrated after learning about it. Coates then worked on it in various degrees for a decade to finish the novel.

According to Coates, he did not expect what happened to him as a fiction writer to just happen. He only would have wanted at first to write profiles of people in print. However, when he started attracting a single level of attention, he found out that people were reacting mostly to what is related to the writing and not the writing itself. He did not enjoy it afterward and left his social media accounts because he does not like intellectual debates. Coates noted that what he likes about writing fiction is that it is not an argumentative piece and that people should read the book first before they could say something about it.

The novel debuted at number one on the New York Times Fiction bestsellers list and on the Combined Print and E-book bestsellers list. American media executive and talk show host Oprah Winfrey selected it as one of the books included for the revival of her Oprah’s Book Club. She even praised it as one of the best books she has ever read in her entire life. Oprah placed it up there in the top 5.