Discrimination In Brown Dreaming Girl By Jacqueline Woodson

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The authors write books to tell something special and readers buy books to enjoy their special. They can learn something new from these special words, and it is meaning to enjoy reading. For example, readers can learn about discrimination against African American and a lawyer who tries to protect them. Though the reading story, each people feel differently even though they read same words. It means that people can learn different things from the same book. In English class, reading books and learning books are the most important tasks for students. In particular, books which students read in the English class in this year tell that people who fight against the discrimination, what is the true friendship, and a person who are boys emotionally, …show more content…
In this book, main character is the author, and she explains her own life. She was born in Ohio which is located on the northern America. People who were living in north are not racists and they did not face any racism. However, her parents got a divorce and she, her mother, and her brothers moved to the South Carolina which is located on the southern America. White people who were living in South Carolina are usually racists, therefore they faced the discrimination against African Americans. At the same time when they move to South Carolina, there is the big movement called “Civil Right Movement”. This movement was caused by African Americans and they try to stop the discrimination against themselves by using civil disobedience. For example, African Americans tried to sit the lunch white only counter, and when white people tried to boot out them, they refuse to leave. If white people violate them, they never violate white people because it is way of the civil disobedience. Civil right movement is the one of the important history in U.S, and the author tells this event with her own experiences. In the other words, American literature tells the important event in the …show more content…
His name is Will, his father wrote a famous song. Therefore, he gets money from his father’s royalty on a song, and he never works. This makes him childish, and readers think he is a boy. For example, he does not want to marry because he never wants to live with other people, especially children. However, he always tries to make a girlfriend to be physical relationship with her. Moreover, he makes lies to attract a girlfriend, Suzie who is a single mother. For example, he lies that he has a boy and he is a single father. Suzie finally realizes that he has no child and not single father, therefore they do not become a couple. This event causes that Will starts thinking that he should become an adult and be honest. This novel tells readers that an adult should be honest and a person who is a child emotionally should become an

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