Memoir of Emili-Rose: Celebration of a Journey

Memoir of Emili-Rose is set in a time that represents one of the nations most socially regressive eras. For Emili-Rose times could not have been worse. She was the victim of a society that afforded her few opportunities. She was black female and like most rural African-American children the product of a society that provided her parents and community too few economic and political prospects for change. Even thought the book depicts the victimization of Emili-Rose on the contrary it celebrates her strength her character and her daring faith to believe that her life was not preordained by those who would thwart her progress. Memoir of Emili-Rose is about an incredible life-spirited child who shows by example that by refuting ill-suited labels you win. The book proves that ill-suited labels can rob and weaken ones spirit take away courage and creativity and dims hope. Moreover ill-suited labels can leave the human spirit in a perpetual state of confusion. In her book her life challenges a preordained fate of social subjugation that was so real during these times. Young Emili-Rose believed she could and she did. Her life is her testimony and it makes its case against the mockers