King responds warily, unsure of Sandy's kindness, but notices bruises on the boy's arm. At the bayou, Sandy appears, telling King he is sorry for his loss. King's friends react with surprise at his outburst defending Sandy, so after school he runs to the bayou to visit the dragonflies that fly there, thinking that his older brother was reincarnated into a dragonfly. The only reason King stopped being friends with Sandy, in fact, was his older brother Khalid's insistence that others would then think King was gay, too. He hears them bullying Sandy Sanders for being gay, a boy whose father is a known racist and whose brother has been accused of racist acts, too, and King feels obligated to defend Sandy, since they were once very close. At school, King feels isolated from his friends, who do not understand how to respond to his grief. King and the Dragonflies is a middle grade novel divided into 19 chapters but divided into only five sections for the purposes of this guide.Ĭhapters 1 - 4 introduce Kingston "King" James, a young Louisiana native who has recently lost his older brother and is struggling to come to terms with his own and his parents' grief. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Callender, Kacen.
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