How long does it take to read The Raging Quiet?
The Raging Quiet by Sherryl Jordan takes about 6 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 38 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1999. 362 pages, about 99,550 words. Written for children.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 4 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 38 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Raging Quiet is a rather brillaint novel by Sherryl Jordan. It takes place in medieval times, when God was cherished and witches were burned. The novel revolves around a beautiful, hardworking young woman named Marnie, who is sent off to be married to a lord in order to let her family keep their house and farm. However, the marraige doesnt last long. Marnie becomes a widow after 2 days of marriage, her husband having died in a roofing accident. Finding herself alone in a new town, far away from her family, Marnie strikes up a unlikely friendship with Raver, a boy about her same age who is consently being whipped for having "the devil in him" when really he is only deaf and has never learned to talk. Marnie, seeing the goodness in Raver, begins to create a language using only her hands, proving that Raver is not a madman. However, these hand signs and the response of the "towns madman"'don't go over well with the villagers, they begin to believe that Marnie is a witch.
Subjects: Fiction, People with disabilities, Deaf, Prejudices, Juvenile, Children's fiction
