History YMMV / TheGivenDay

* MoralEventHorizon: Possible subversion. [[spoiler:Mckenna's an avowed racist the whole novel, but this is taken UpToEleven when he KILLS Clayton Tomes for no substantial reason but to force Luther to do his bidding in bringing down the NAACP. Possibly subverted in that it's implied he's done this sort of thing before. ]]''[[spoiler:[[KarmaHoudini And gotten away with it.]]]]'' He doesn’t get away with this one though.

* InferredHolocaust: Luther's family is in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 1919, the Greenwood neighborhood was widely known as a thriving black community, with many black-owned businesses, lavish homes, a fire department, hospitals, movie theaters, etc. It was popularly known as the "Black Wall Street"... for another two years, at least. The novel doesn't make it to 1921, but a little research into the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_riot Tulsa Race Riot]] will put a ''huge'' damper on the ending. Luther just ''cannot catch a frickin' break.''

* MoralEventHorizon: Possible subversion. [[spoiler:Mckenna's an avowed racist the whole novel, but this is taken UpToEleven when he KILLS Clayton Tomes for no substantial reason but to force Luther to do his bidding in bringing down the NAACP. Possibly subverted in that it's implied he's done this sort of thing before. ]]''[[spoiler:[[KarmaHoudini And gotten away with it.]]]]''

* CompleteMonster: Ed Mckenna [[spoiler: threatens to kill the Giddreaux family and one black man per week unless Luther does as he's told.]]Being a white police lieutenant in 1919, he could easily have gotten away with it. Call it ValuesDissonance.

* MoralEventHorizon: Possible subversion. [[spoiler:Mckenna's an avowed racist the whole novel, but this is taken UpToEleven when he KILLS Clayton Tomes for no substantial reason but to force Luther to do his bidding in bringing down the NAACP. Possibly subverted in that it's implied he's done this sort of thing before. ]]''[[spoiler:[[KarmaHoudini And gotten away with it.]]]]''

* MoralEventHorizon: Possible subversion. [[spoiler:Mckenna's an avowed racist the whole novel, but this is taken UpToEleven when he KILLS Clayton Tomes for no substantial reason but to force Luther to do his bidding in bringing down the NAACP. Possibly subverted in that it's implied he's done this sort of thing before. ]]]]''[[spoiler:[[KarmaHoudini And gotten away with it.]]]]''

* MoralEventHorizon: Possible subversion. [[spoiler:Mckenna's an avowed racist the whole novel, but this is taken UpToEleven when he KILLS Clayton Tomes for no substantial reason but to force Luther to do his bidding in bringing down the NAACP. Possibly subverted in that it's implied he's done this sort of thing before. ]]]]''[[spoiler:[[KarmaHoudini And gotten away with it.]]''

* CompleteMonster: Ed Mckenna [[spoiler: threatens to murder the Giddreaux family and one black man per week unless Luther does as he's told.]]Being a white police lieutenant in 1919, he could easily have gotten away with it. Call it ValuesDissonance.

* CompleteMonster: Ed Mckenna [[spoiler: threatens to murder the Giddreaux family and one black man per week unless Luther does as he's told.]]Being a white police lieutenant in 1919, he could easily have gotten away with it. Averted due to ValuesDissonance.

* CompleteMonster: Ed Mckenna [[spoiler: threatens to murder the Giddreaux family and one black man per week unless Luther does as he's told.]] Averted in that he's probably not bluffing, and being a white police lieutenant in 1919, he could easily have gotten away with it.