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The Banning Of Books In The Secret Life Of Bees

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Books are like people, there is a wide variety and range of them, they can range from different types of vernacular to age appropriateness. Due to the wide range some books are eligible to be banned from a school district for any array of reasons. Books can be banned because of, profanity, societal issues or anything else that could possibly be thought of. The Secret Life of Bees should be taught in high school curriculum because it allows for readers to see how someone can overcome oppression of racism and various categories of abuse. Racism is something that the population goes through every single day. All races are discriminated against, no matter the skin color, including the so called "superior" whites.
Protagonist Lilly in the novel …show more content…

Wanda Brooks is an Assistant Professor in Elementary Education at University of Baltimore ran a study in 2005 the response and feedback from students after reading the book Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry. Dr. Wanda explains it is perceived that more complex ideas should not be in the hands of children but with adult intellectuals. However, she contradicts the belief by verbalizing "Yet, in the classrooms where ethnically diverse literature is included in the curriculum, the messy concepts of race and racism are unavoidably read and talked about children of all ages" (Brooks). In the current time period and previous years before, many parents and guardians were uncertain about the exposure for their child to different aspects of different religion. Due to reading that genre of books children have gained the knowledge about other religions or culture. If the curriculum about different races and racism is not being emerged into students brains, how will they ever know when they're in a scene where they are susceptible to become the attacker of the cruel action or can be the receiver of racism as …show more content…

Organization Safe Voices lists that, "More than 1 in 4 teenage girls in a relationship (26%) report enduring repeated verbal abuse." (Safe Voices). With it stating more than 1 automatically jumps to at least half, half of teenage girls have been revealed to verbal abuse in a relationship; no matter it being, platonic, familial or romantic. In The Secret Life of Bees verbal abuse is highly prevalent throughout the novel, the abuse is mainly taken in by protagonist Lily Owens. The main abuser is her father T. Ray, with a constant demeanor of Lily being a dumb blonde girl, he constantly calls her numerous obscene names such as "you act no better than a slut" and "why you little bitch" (pg. 27&39, Kidd). While no adolescent should have to endure that mental beat down, Lily later uses that to better herself and she learns herself value while overcoming the repeated verbal abuse from her

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