The novel’s proper way to refer to black people.
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Umber Term Timeline in Unwind
The timeline below shows where the term Umber appears in Unwind. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 21
Lev and an umber boy named Cyrus, who goes by the nickname CyFi, walk along some train tracks. CyFi...
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...can stop talking with double negatives. Extremely offended, CyFi says he’s speaking in Old World Umber patois, but Lev insists the dialect is fake. CyFi rants about how he chooses to...
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...some of the kid’s emotions, and it’s especially hard since most people automatically assume an umber kid is a bad kid. Thanks to this temporal lobe, CyFi embodies this stereotype by...
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