Writing style
Conversational · Dialogue-driven · Direct · Spare
Apple BooksDear Martin
Literary fiction
- First published
- 2017
- Print length
- 240 pagesEmber, 2021
Description
Dear Martin follows Justyce McAllister, a Black scholarship student at a predominantly white preparatory school in Atlanta. After a white police officer handcuffs him, Justyce struggles to understand his experience within the racial climate around him and begins a journal addressed to Martin Luther King Jr. He also feels caught between scorn from his former neighborhood and ridicule at school. Later, a confrontation involving Justyce, his friend Manny, and an off-duty white officer escalates into gunfire. The resulting media fallout places Justyce under public attack, deepening the questions that prompted his search for guidance.
Reading profile
About this profile
Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).
- Writing
- How much attention the sentences and language require.
- Ideas
- How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
- Structure
- How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
- Background knowledge
- Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
- Emotional intensity
- Emotional pressure, from gentle (1) to intense (5). Separate from difficulty.
Pace
Brisk
Tone
Dark · Earnest · Reflective · Tense
Structure
Framed · Linear
Focus
Character · Ideas · Plot
Emotional intensity
5 / 5
Reading complexity
1–5 · higher means more demanding- Writing
- 2 / 5
- Ideas
- 3 / 5
- Structure
- 3 / 5
- Background knowledge
- 1 / 5
Themes
Book details
For the print edition listed above.
- Publisher
- Ember
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781101939529
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