III. INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ANGLOAMERICAN CULTURAL AND LITERARY STUDIES
A GLIMPSE INTO AMERICAN RACISM THROUGH THE MURDERS FROM PERCIVAL EVERETT'S THE TREES
The Trees, a novel in which dark period America not only makes you laugh but also witnesses many murders, is Percival Everett's novel containing black humor and tension. The work of the author, who describes himself as an abnormally ironic person, was published in 2021. In the work, which contains physical and metaphysical elements, many murders take place in the town of Money, Mississippi. Detectives who go to investigate the murders realize that the murders are not normal murders because people were brutally killed. The main purpose of this article is to reflect to the reader how racial problems emerged in America and their effects on people through the work written in the twenty-first century. The strange part in the novel is that only the bodies of black people disappear. The book, which contains many transitions between both detective fiction and horror, shows that although white people are also killed, black people are tortured more. This work, which is a book of racial terror, provides the opportunity to bring to light a pre-existing social problem with the author's humorous power.
