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Slaughterhouse Five, The Great Gatsby, Great Expectations

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The five boots I’ve read that have peaked my curiosity are, Peak, Slaughterhouse Five, The Great Gatsby, Great Expectations, and finally, Their eyes were watching God. The idea that I would like to discuss is from Their eyes were watching God. The idea is that racism is conditioned. The book is set in the 1800s when slavery was very prominent in the United States. In the book there is a scene where a young black child is playing with a group of white children. A photographer shows up and takes their picture and shows the children. As the black child is looking for herself, she exclaims, “Where am I? Where am I?” and she searches among the children and doesn’t realize that she is that one black child. When the plantation owner points her out,

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