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A novel based on a true tale of heroism and invention in the tunnels beneath Lake Erie in 1916. This original graphic novel imagines the lives of blue-collar workers involved in the real-life Lake Erie tunnel disaster of 1916 in Cleveland. Author Scott MacGregor and illustrator Gary Dumm tell the intersecting stories of a brilliant African American inventor, Ben Beltran (based on the real-life Garrett Morgan, Sr.), desperate immigrants tunneling beneath Lake Erie, and corrupt overseers who risk countless lives for profit. As historical fiction, Fire on the Water sheds light not only on one of America's earliest man-made ecological disasters but also on racism and the economic disparity between classes in the Midwest at the turn of the century.… (más)
Irony: Write a historical fiction graphic novel about an African American inventor named Benjamin Beltran and his part in the rescue following a major tunneling accident under Lake Erie. In your end matter write extensively how your story is actually based on Garrett A. Morgan, a real African American inventor, whose story is "a perfect example of how the history we're taught is not necessarily the history that happened," and how his "heroics on the night of July 25, 1916, was, thanks to systemic racism, erased in the same way one erases a wipe board or an email."
Ummm.
So you honor Garrett A. Morgan by erasing his name and life and writing your story over them? Why not tell his story instead of just taking it for yours? Or trying to somehow have it both ways by slapping in an afterword?
Jeepers.
I was actually over halfway through reading the book before I realized how much of a fiction it really is. A sudden intrusion of premonitions, dreams, visions and supernatural claptrap into what seemed a down-to-earth retelling of a "true-life tragedy" finally forced me to read the dust jacket copy. My interest quickly dwindled but I read it through to the end.
And then the afterword told the story I actually wanted to read: No angels, ghosts, or fake names; just the true story of a man named Garrett A. Morgan who worked hard to succeed and who rose to the occasion when called upon to risk his life to save others. ( )
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Dedicatoria
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Scott MacGregor dedicates this book to - Kate, Patrick, and Maureen . . . and to Gary Dumm, who traversed his own "tunnel to hell" wile battling cancer during the creation of this book and bravely won back the daylight.
Gary Dumm dedicates this book to - The memory of my parents, Margaret and George Dumm, who both, in vastly different ways, allowed and gave me the strength to dream big. Laura Dumm, who's helped me to recover from cancer while in the middle of our four-year journey, working together on the nuts and bolts of producing this big graphic novel. Scott MacGregor, who trusted me implicitly to collaborate artistically and lend shape and definition to his dream.
Primeras palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Benjamin Beltran preferred to fly in his dreams . . . it was easier than walking and the view was wonderful . . . but, no walking meant no scuffling . . . and no scuffling meant that he was dreaming . . .
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Últimas palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
. . . Water, it is so precious. It's as precious . . . as life itself.
A novel based on a true tale of heroism and invention in the tunnels beneath Lake Erie in 1916. This original graphic novel imagines the lives of blue-collar workers involved in the real-life Lake Erie tunnel disaster of 1916 in Cleveland. Author Scott MacGregor and illustrator Gary Dumm tell the intersecting stories of a brilliant African American inventor, Ben Beltran (based on the real-life Garrett Morgan, Sr.), desperate immigrants tunneling beneath Lake Erie, and corrupt overseers who risk countless lives for profit. As historical fiction, Fire on the Water sheds light not only on one of America's earliest man-made ecological disasters but also on racism and the economic disparity between classes in the Midwest at the turn of the century.
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Ummm.
So you honor Garrett A. Morgan by erasing his name and life and writing your story over them? Why not tell his story instead of just taking it for yours? Or trying to somehow have it both ways by slapping in an afterword?
Jeepers.
I was actually over halfway through reading the book before I realized how much of a fiction it really is. A sudden intrusion of premonitions, dreams, visions and supernatural claptrap into what seemed a down-to-earth retelling of a "true-life tragedy" finally forced me to read the dust jacket copy. My interest quickly dwindled but I read it through to the end.
And then the afterword told the story I actually wanted to read: No angels, ghosts, or fake names; just the true story of a man named Garrett A. Morgan who worked hard to succeed and who rose to the occasion when called upon to risk his life to save others. (