comment on structure

Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice has a very simple structure, appropriate for the young teenage audience it appears to have been written for. While the book is not for a young child, it is for people young enough such that complex sentences should be largely avoided and that need pictures and captions to stay interested in reading the book. Each chapter is full of pictures, asides in large text boxes, transcribed comments from Colvin spoken in simple prose. This is not to say that the book shies away from controversy or serious social and political matters. Rather, it is only to say that it is clear that the attention span of the intended reader social group is low.