67 pages • 2 hours read
LaDarrion WilliamsBlood at the Root
Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Part 2, Chapters 15-25Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Part 2: “Act II”
Part 2, Chapter 15 Summary
Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of enslavement, cursing, sexual content, death, and graphic violence.
After algebra class the next day, Kumale pulls Malik aside. They talk about how Malik’s first week went. He tells Malik to continue to work hard and then offers to be Malik’s mentor if he needs help.
Malik then goes to the library and talks with the librarian, Ms. Faye. After he explains that Lorraine Baron was his mother, Ms. Faye allows him to see her notebook. Malik asks about the Divine Elam, and she explains that they were Black people who came to the Americas hundreds of years before Columbus. They lived here for centuries, using powerful magic, and continue to function today as a secret society. Malik then asks if his mother was part of the Divine Elam. Ms. Faye admits that she was, along with Taron and a boy named Antwan Bivins.
Malik asks Ms. Faye if she knows anything else about his mother. She tells him that Lorraine was looking for the Scroll of Idan which “gives you powers just like the gods” (207), and that she was too tempted by its power. She leaves Malik with the notebook, and he decides to steal it.
