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The influence of past heritage and family unity are constant themes in Hamilton's work. M. C. Higgins, the Great is the story of a young boy growing up, as Tree Sweet did, in relative isolation. While Tree's world revolved around the inner-city apartment she shared with her brother and mother, M. C.'s world is wide and spacious for his family lives near the top of Sarah's Mountain with no nearby neighbors or towns. However, M. C, like Tree, is visited by the ghost of an ancestor. He sees his great grandmother Sarah, an escaped slave, making her way to freedom as she climbs the mountain which was later named for her. M. C , however, does not enter into the world of fantasy; his problems are rooted in the reality of the present. Together, he and his father work to save their home from an inevitable landslide. Although M. C....
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