Ragtime Post 3

Where have you been blog fanatics? Well let me fill you in on Coalhouse's story As the story builds to its climax, Coalhouse and his gang carry through on their plan to take over J.P. Morgan's library, holding the library's contents for ransom until their demands are met. Booker T. Washington and Father both help in the negotiations but Coalhouse is ultimately shot down by a trigger-happy police department.


So if I were to say a character was a shape would I be crazy? Well lets give this a try, say we have Coalhouse Walker, Tired of being treated differently because of his color, tired of being discriminated, tired of being tired. well he was narrowed down from an open man to a certain path of destruction, kind of like a triangle. lets think about a triangle long bottom then narrows to a tip. imagine the bottom is how coal house started, the Harlem musician trying to get back in to Sarah's life, then  One day, after leaving Sarah, Coalhouse is harassed by a local firehouse. They won't let him pass in his nice car without paying a toll, something Coalhouse refuses to do. He won't back down either, especially after his car is destroyed. Here his triangle is getting tighter towards the top then to make matters worse, Sarah goes to get help from the Vice President and The Secret Service doesn't take kindly to her approaching him, and they smack her in the chest with the butt of a rifle. Before you know it, Sarah's in a hospital dying, with Coalhouse by her side and revenge on his mind. Here comes the tip! So then Coalhouse and his gang of rebels decide to take over the library until their demands are met, but plot twist Coalhouse gets shot down by the police. The triangle of Coalhouse is more then a shape it is to show the narrowing of his aggression until he had to take action against injustice, ultimately leading to his demise.