![]() Mother and Father flee to Atlantic City with the little boy to avoid the fallout. The guards protecting the Vice President think she is an assassin, so they hit her in the chest with a gun. He refuses to marry Sarah until his car is fixed, so Sarah decides to petition the Vice President, who is in town. Coalhouse first pursues legal action but cannot find a lawyer who will represent him. One day as Coalhouse is driving to New York, a racist group of firemen block his path and wreck his Model-T Ford. 1 - Mother unofficially adopts Sarah's baby and raises him. Father is uncomfortable with Coalhouse in his home, and Mother feels stifled by her husband's return.įig. Father comes back from his expedition, and he and Mother begin to resent one another. Although Sarah initially refuses to see him, Coalhouse eventually woos her and earns the family's respect by playing ragtime music on the piano. The baby's father, a Black musician named Coalhouse Walker, visits Sarah at Father and Mother's house often and insistently asks her to marry him. ![]() Mother opens her home to the boy's mother, Sarah, as well. Mother finds an abandoned Black baby in her backyard and takes the boy in instead of reporting the incident to the authorities. "Tateh" means daddy and "Mameh" means mommy in Yiddish.īack in New York, Evelyn and Mother's Younger Brother break up. In Philadelphia, Tateh sells a movie idea to a novelty company and becomes a movie director. Tateh and the little girl leave New York, traveling along the East Coast. Meanwhile, Mother's Younger Brother stalks Evelyn and the two start dating. When the girl gets sick, Evelyn takes care of her. The little girl's parents have recently split because her mother (Mameh) had sex with her employer to make ends meet, so the girl's father (Tateh) is raising her alone. Mother's Younger Brother is obsessed with the actress Evelyn Nesbit, Father leaves on a trip to explore the Arctic with real-life explorer Robert Peary, and Mother finds a new sense of freedom and leadership as she takes over as the head of household in Father's absence.Įvelyn becomes quite fond of the daughter of an immigrant family, who she meets while visiting the Lower East Side. An upper-class family consisting of Father, Mother, Mother's Younger Brother, Grandfather, and the little boy own a company producing flags and fireworks. Ragtime begins in New York at the turn of the 20th century. Ragtime features three families from vastly different backgrounds whose lives are inextricably woven together as they navigate the changing world at the turn of the 20th century. Doctorow (1931-2015) is a novel about oppression, social change, and the search for stability in a rapidly evolving world. Named one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the Modern Library, Ragtime (1975) by American novelist E.
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