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Examples Of Prejudice In The Secret Life Of Bees

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The Sting of Prejudice Even 100 years after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, African Americans in southern states still lived in an unequal world full of segregation and various forms of oppression. Sue Monk Kidd is an American novelist who personally witnessed the brutal cruelty of racism while growing up in the south in 1964. She explains that her novel, “The Secret Life of Bees,” was a way to “give redemption” towards the African Americans she grew up with. The protagonist of the novel, Lily is a 14 year old girl who struggles between following the stereotypes of the south, and listening to her own moral compass. Growing up in South Carolina in 1964, Lily is exposed to racism and ignorance, which cause her to question the social standings

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