Jesse is an English novelle, which was written by the author Joy Boothe, and was published in 2012. It’s a fictional text, and the story spands over a period of 22 years. The story jumps from one period of time to another, which means the story cut out a few years, but the jumps are however still in a chronological order, with no flashbacks. The story is written from a 1st person narrator’s point of view, and it’s written in the present tense. When written in present tense, it makes the story more exciting, and the tension is easily build up.¨’
The story is about a girl. You never get to know her name. But you could easily think, that she is the one called Jesse. However she hates the name Jesse, because it reminds her and everyone else, about her alcoholic uncle Jesse, who shot himself. They are all Christians, and the 1st person narrator attends Sunday school. Her father also works at the plywood mill.
Her father befriends a man called Jesse at work. Jesse and her father make good friends, and Jesse often visits them at home. He brings joy into their home, and he actually makes the girl laugh. He also makes the mother in their family laugh; “Mama laughs with us when Jesse makes sounds like toad frogs and crickets.” But they can’t have Jesse inside their house, because he is a black man, and according to their grandmother, and actually also the society, black men did not have the same rights as white men did at the time being.
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