Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Tog… Setting & Symbolism

Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Tog Objects/Places

Red River Parish, Louisiana

Red River Parish, Louisiana is the name of Denver's birthplace and location of the sharecropping plantations that form his early life and personality

Haltom City

Haltom City is the name of Ron's birthplace in a lower-middle-class part of Fort Worth where shabby-looking house trailers and cars stripped for parts sit in yards

Riverside Elementary

Riverside Elementary in Fort Worth,Texas is the name of the grade school Ron Hall attends. He is unjustly humiliated and punished there by an ugly female teacher for making an honest mistake.

Georgia O'Keefe

Georgia O'Keefe is the name of the artist whose paintings get Ron his start in selling artwork. The client who buys them sends a plane down to pick him up along with the paintings for delivery to her home in New York City. She holds a luncheon in his honor for her wealthy friends.

Meacham Airfield

Meacham Airfield is the name of the airport where Ron carries...
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