Unfortunately, as you might have expected, some people do die, and one of them is Octavian’s mother. But then, when the pox begins circulating in Boston, his masters, who are first and foremost scientists, develop a vaccine and invite many many people to the house where they are injected and then quarantined (with fine food and entertainment during the period) so that they will become sick, but not sick enough to die. He will show them that he is equal or smarter than any of them (he probably is smarter than any of them – his work on the violin, in particular, is near genius). Octavian stays on after he discovers all this as he is determined to prove his masters wrong. His Latin lessons and his violin lessons are all part of a great trial, which, his masters hope, will prove that the African race is unequal to the white Americans. And Octavian’s bowel movements are not weighed, measured, and recorded because he is so special, but because he is being treated as a scientific experiment. His mother was not brought to America as a princess, but as a slave. Octavian lives in a great house with his mother (a princess from Africa) and they are both treated like royalty he and his mother are the other people in the whole house who have names – everyone else is referred to be a number.Īnd yet, as he grows older, Octavian begins to realize that all is not right. the astonishing life of octavian nothing: traitor to the nation
Unfortunately, for me, it didn’t deliver. Octavian Nothing has a pretty fascinating premise and I tend to love historical fiction, so it seemed like a easy choice. It wasn’t a bad book, just not interesting enough to hold my attention. The only thing I didn’t forget was how long, how many bike rides to and from work, it took me to plow through these CDs. I listened to the Octavian Nothing audiobook (alternate title: “It Will Take You Longer to Read The Title than the Book”) and I forgot about it the moment I finished it.
Octavian is treated like royalty in the house of his Boston masters, until he realizes that they are using him as a science experiment to determine if Africans are equal, physically, mentally, and morally, to the European whites.
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