Question

Analysis the story
Beginning of Homewood
by - John Edgar wideman​

Answer 1

"The Beginning of Homewood" employs Wideman's call and response narrative technique to blend the stories of his ancestor Sybela Owens, his elderly aunt May, and his own incarcerated brother, Robby. In the story, which he confesses has "something wrong with it," he poses the question whether Sybela's crime (of escaping slavery) can be weighed against Robby's. Though Wideman never offers a resolution for this thorny problem, by juxtaposing these two images of freedom and bondage, he encourages readers to explore the complex and deeply ambiguous moral landscape that all of the characters inhabit.