Come a Stranger | Literary Qualities
Come a Stranger deals with the African American experience through the eyes of its protagonist Mina Smiths. In Mina, Voigt has created a strong central character who is worthy of admiration and emulation, and reading of her can only increase racial understanding for Come a Stranger's audience. The reader comes to know Mina in a personal way as she changes from a ten-year-old, wondering why God made some people black and some white and why she is one of the black ones, to a fifteen-year-old exuding pride in the woman she has become.
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