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Social Injustice In The Secret Life Of Bees

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Social injustice is an age-long theme in real life as well as in the book, The Secret Life of Bees. Taking place in the 1960’s, the book contains social injustice in many ways of life. Social injustice is the treatment and perspective toward a specific minority because they are different. The existence of social injustice is a terrible reality that many minorities have to live through that Sue Monk Kidd incorporates into her novel.

The existence of social injustice is present in The Secret Life of Bees, when Rosaleen and Lily leave the farm to go to town to get Rosaleen to vote. When the two of them are walking into town, the town racist starts to bad mouth Rosaleen, and confronts her, ending with Rosaleen pouring snuff spit onto his shoes

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