![]() ![]() ![]() Sally is infuriated and does not understand why her mother is not upset as well. The next day, Sally goes back to visit the black family and discovers that laws requiring racial segregation in the 1940s in the Southern United States force the family to move to another car on the train. The novel first touches on racism when, on the train to Florida, Sally meets a black woman traveling with her young sons about Sally's age and her infant daughter whom Sally gets to hold. This is because of her brother Douglas's health, for he caught nephritis from staying in wet clothes in the cold. Freedman moves from New Jersey to Miami, Florida with her brother and their mother and grandmother at the end of World War II. Blume has said, "Sally is the kind of kid I was at ten." This novel is her most autobiographical, with many parallels between Blume's own life and that of Sally. While not as controversial as some of her other novels, Blume does manage to address the following themes of late 1940s life in America: racism, anti-Semitism and sibling rivalry. The story is set in 1947 and follows the imaginative 10-year-old Sally, who likes to make up stories in her head, her family moves from New Jersey to Miami Beach. ![]() Freedman as Herself is a 1977 young adult novel by Judy Blume. ![]()
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