The Good Lord Bird
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Browns next worry is for his virginity: Did you co-mingle with anyone in a fleshly way?
Onion protests that hes as innocent as the day he was born.
She slaps a white man across the face.
Pies plan to save herself revolves around that bag of coins she keeps hidden under her bed.
What A Wicked Plot does astonishingly well is to subtly relay how all their desires are at odds.
All of which puts Onion smack dab in the middle.
Should he use his lighter skin (and adopted costume as a girl) to his advantage?
Is his duty to help himself or to help his brothers and sisters?
His position as Pies little helpmate keeps him safe from everything besides pinches on the ass.
But what he sees as keeping his head down is a dangerous kind of ignorance.
Onion learns that hes implicated no matter what there can be no bystanders.
Sibonias trial, giant goddamn sham that it is, is the highlight of the episode.
She upends every expectation that her whiskey-tossing judge and the bloodthirsty crowd have.
Sibonia readily admits that she planned an insurrection: I am the woman.
Thats why she jumps from the scaffolding this is her death and shes determined to maintain agency over it.
And its also why her able gutting of the preachers hypocrisy is such a victorious moment.
(You have no problem with blood, she shouts, unless its the blood of white folks!)
Sibonia knows her verses, too.
His quiet response: That in his eyes were all equal.
Like Brown, people think shes mad.
