Trampoline Robert Gipe Summary
Dawn s father delbert is dead killed in the mines leaving her mother tricia a grieving drunk.
Trampoline robert gipe summary. The back cover features praise from well loved appalachian authors ann pancake silas house and david joy. He was a fan of graphic novels and comic books but the thought of drawing an entire book was daunting. The narrator dawn jewell tells the story of the holiday season when she was 15 years old.
Trampoline is a powerful portrait of a place struggling with the economic and social forces that threaten and define it much like appalachia today. When robert gipe began writing and drawing trampoline in 2006 he decided he was going to create something different. Chapter summaries analyses.
Trampoline is the story of 15 year old dawn who becomes immersed in her grandmother s controversial fight against mountain top removal in their east kentucky community. Throughout the novel dawn decides whether to. The basic white cover features a hand drawn image of the novel s protagonist dawn jewell.
Trampoline is an illustrated novel written by robert gipe. The story takes place in the fictional canard county located in the appalachian mountains of kentucky. Trampoline is a truly new sort of novel one in which the masterful prose and intimate drawings work together to tell a powerful story.
A ragged but affecting novel about a rebellious teen from kentucky s coal mining country. The illustrations are ideally suited to the storytelling and artist dawn herself. Trampoline is a marvel of densely packed description.
Ohio university press published the novel in 2015. Trampoline act 5 summary analysis act 5. People places things feelings are succinctly and vividly conveyed in a matter of sentences.
Its narrator is dawn jewell a teenager who recounts the turbulent time when her grandmother cora led her into a fight to stop a mountaintop removal coal mine. During our round table presentation together the more robert talked about trampoline the more i began to realize that this just may be the type of book many of our young people in appalachia are looking for. In gipe s hands jewell s voice is musical and honest her language and syntax brooking no nonsense and yet capturing the beauty and nuance of mountain life that others around her miss.
Robert gipe brings dawn jewell to life along with her kinfolk and their kentucky coal mining hometown. An illustrated novel by robert gipe has been one of the biggest and dare i say most pleasant surprises of 2015. Dawn is intelligent creative and thoughtful.
