Character Analysis
This is the lady who called it. Before everyone else, even when Griffin thought that everything was going to be okay. Adelle Jackson, the editorial director of Sepia magazine, only has one thing to say in this book:
At first she thought the idea was impossible. "You don't know what you'd be getting into, John," she said. She felt that when my book was published, I would be the butt of resentment from all the hate groups, that they would stop at nothing to discredit me, and that many decent whites would be afraid to show me courtesies when others might be watching. (2.9)
As soon as his story was out Griffin and his family started living the future that Jackson predicted. Lots of people wrote to Griffin saying how awesome he was, but strangely there was no one to actually stick up for him in his own town while he received death threats.
Pretty spot on, lady. You get a gold medal for your Cassandra-like prophecies, and you bolster this book's structure by providing a little dose of foreshadowing.