How did you react when the narrator created Dickens's boundary lines, and Marpessa ejected strangers from the bus?

How did you react when the narrator created Dickens's boundary lines (page 99), and Marpessa ejected strangers from the bus (page 134, taking her cue from George Wallace's "Segregation Now" gubernatorial inauguration speech)?

I thought it was very clever.

I thought both were quite effective attempts to create and define identity.

I felt how relevant this act was to the current sociopolitical climate in the United States. There is a sense of going back in time to an earlier era where these were familiar responses to change.

I can understand how distressing the loss of the named community was. I live in a place where the Post Office closed and we became part of surrounding communities. It's a case of identity theft. The past is gone.

I like that the narrator brought back the boundary lines for Dickens, realistic. I agree with elizabethk that it was clever. However Marpessa's ejecting of strangers from her bus and getting away with it was surprising and unrealistic.

I cheered!

I liked the boundary lines, but they could also have put a physical,line on the areas where Blacks were not allowed to live. It also brings back that time. As to being thrown off the bus, this too brings back a picture of the last.