Re: the protagonist of the story Six Words
The protagonist is the narrator, Calvin, a young Black activist during a time of great oppression. He is friends with Harriet, Rett for short, a young Black woman who has the power to travel back and forth in time, and to see upcoming danger, through dreams; and Dre, an attractive Black man to whom Calvin is conflictedly attracted. Calvin is devastated when he ignores his intuition, which results in Rett being captured by agents of the oppression forces, despite her final words to him before she fell asleep , exhausted from her dream journeys: Stay with me. Watch over me. Those six words haunt him, because he did not stay with her, and now she's been kidnapped. It is what fuels his obsession with intuition; he feels that had he followed his intuition, he would have saved her. He might also have spotted the traitors inside the movement who sold out by revealing where Harriet was and what her powers were. Intuition is absolutely critical for success.
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Marcus