Soul on Ice Study Guide & Notes

Soul on Ice Plot Summary

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Eldridge Cleaver was imprisoned at least twice. By his own admission, he was in possession of "a shopping bag" full of marijuana resulting in his first prison sentence and committed a series of rapes resulting in the second. Cleaver is a complex man and the book is his path toward self-discovery. The book is Cleaver's account of a series of actions leading up to and during the American Civil Rights movement. Cleaver also discusses at length the complicated interactions of the social classes, races and genders, focusing on blacks and whites, men and women, the "haves" and the "have nots."

The story begins and ends in Folsom Prison, includes a series of short vignettes and personal correspondence between Cleaver and Beverly Axlerod, and attorney for whom Cleaver confesses a physical attraction. Cleaver talks extensively of his own need for fulfillment and what it takes to attain that. He is...
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