Secret Life of bees

                            We started off this semester with a short story called Letters from Birmingham jail. It was about Martin Luther King writing letters to all of the people that didn’t believe in what he believed in. Martin Luther King believed in black rights and civil rights. Back in 1957 he got elected Southern Christian Leadership Conference and provided rights for the movement of the black rights laws that were going on.(Martin Luther King - Biography ) After reading this I realized how much our world has changed and that the segregation of blacks vs. whites is gone. Some people in the society still are racists toward black people some examples of that would be that the thought of intercity kids. We automatically think of black people. I don’t think its right to stereotype black people. My family on my mom’s side was very racist I’m glad that I was raised to treat everyone equally, the way people should be treated no matter what color there skin is. Now, we are reading the book The Secret Life of Bees. In the first chapter of this book I can already tell what our topic for English will be for the rest of the year. The first chapter was about a small family that owned a peach farm. The mom died in the story, and they have a black lady named Rosaleen, that takes care of the family. When Rosaleen goes into town to resister to vote they tell her that she can’t because she’s colored. When she walks out of the place she gets arrested for doing so. This book relates to class and the short story Letters from Birmingham jail because it has to deal with black rights, it all happened around the same time frame. I believe that all people no matter what color your skin is should have rights the color of your skin doesn’t change the person you are.

MLA style: "Martin Luther King - Biography". Nobelprize.org. 3 Feb 2011 http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html

 

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