Effects Of Little Bee Imperialism

The African continent, a continent shaped by horrors of the past and present. These horrors were brought by European imperialism. Before this book I had only learned briefly about the struggles brought by imperialism. Before reading this book all I had really known about imperialism is the positive effects imperialism had on the British. We did not view both perspectives of the topic until we began reading Little Bee. Imperialism positively affected the Europeans by giving them new resources for their ongoing industrial revolution. I had always thought that imperialism was good because it was helping Europe, and never really thought about the negative effects it had. Little Bee shows the horrors of imperialism, and horrors we fail to see on a daily basis. During the group conversation we found that Little Bee’s life was extremely different from us, and to think that many other people we like Little Bee was astonishing. We continually talked about the comparison of our lives with Little Bee’s life. We noticed that Little Bee was constantly talking about how scared she was and how men were always coming to get her. We noticed that we don’t really worry much during the day, the only thing we worry about is …show more content…
The presence of death always brings horror. We all feel horror, but that horror we never want to feel again. When my grandfather died it was very tragic, and I was very close to him, so when I knew he was gone, it brought a sense of horror upon me. That is not a good feeling at all, and I know that everyone feels this when one of their loved ones has died. Sometimes people are lucky enough to feel horror without someone being terminated by the reaper, but his presence is still felt, and when death’s presence is felt, it leads to horror. Even when a loved one has died, unlike Little Bee we feel this for a short amount of time, and then continue living our