This story focus about Ruth, she is nurse from African American, who is wrongly accused of murdering a newborn but also follows the perspective of the newborn's white supremacist father, Turk, and Ruth's white public defender, Kennedy. Throughout Ruth's storyline, she is challenged with the repercussions of racism from everyone around her. The novel being written from three (very different) points of view promote the fact that there are so many different outlooks in this world and the best way to counteract the ones you don't agree with is through love, not hate. There are some prospective in this story: There are three alternating perspectives in this book:
• Ruth has done everything "right" in her life, yet she is suddenly about to lose …show more content…
He finds a perfect scapegoat in Ruth. I have to give the author credit for this character. I hated being in his chapters so much that I had to keep checking to see how many minutes I had left! Not only do Turk and his wife have abhorrent thoughts, but they also commit violent acts. Some of the most interesting parts of Turk's chapters were the details about the movement's attempt to blend in with the general population, their recruitment methods, and the exploration of what causes a person to become so full of hate. Turk has some humanizing moments: the grief over the loss of his child, elements of his and his wife's love story, and a reminiscence about a stint in jail. It shows he has the capability for love and compassion, so maybe he's not a complete lost …show more content…
It gave me a great deal to think about it. It may be change any reader lives. I like this story because it gave me about racism between white people and African American, how they deal each them in every where. There are so many things that come to the surface with this one racism, white privilege, the sad reality that sometimes hate has the power to color someone’s entire world and the feeling of not belonging anywhere. Racism isn’t an easy or comfortable topic by any stretch of the imagination and neither is this story. So be prepared. It’s front and center, blatantly obvious and in-your-face uncomfortable.
I think Just as racism creates disadvantages for people of color that make success harder to achieve, it also gives advantages to white people that make success easier to achieve. It’s hard to see those advantages, much less own up to them. I think dead and life for my god not because for people or human. The book did spark two interesting discussions on racism. The author talks (through her characters) about there being two kinds of racism active and passive.
This is a courageous book because regarding direction Picoult is white or is unafraid regarding revealing in conformity with her readers how many even hoary human beings along the excellent about intentions be able find that wrong.
"Equality is treating everyone the same. But equity is taking differences into account, so everyone has a chance to
• Ruth has done everything "right" in her life, yet she is suddenly about to lose …show more content…
He finds a perfect scapegoat in Ruth. I have to give the author credit for this character. I hated being in his chapters so much that I had to keep checking to see how many minutes I had left! Not only do Turk and his wife have abhorrent thoughts, but they also commit violent acts. Some of the most interesting parts of Turk's chapters were the details about the movement's attempt to blend in with the general population, their recruitment methods, and the exploration of what causes a person to become so full of hate. Turk has some humanizing moments: the grief over the loss of his child, elements of his and his wife's love story, and a reminiscence about a stint in jail. It shows he has the capability for love and compassion, so maybe he's not a complete lost …show more content…
It gave me a great deal to think about it. It may be change any reader lives. I like this story because it gave me about racism between white people and African American, how they deal each them in every where. There are so many things that come to the surface with this one racism, white privilege, the sad reality that sometimes hate has the power to color someone’s entire world and the feeling of not belonging anywhere. Racism isn’t an easy or comfortable topic by any stretch of the imagination and neither is this story. So be prepared. It’s front and center, blatantly obvious and in-your-face uncomfortable.
I think Just as racism creates disadvantages for people of color that make success harder to achieve, it also gives advantages to white people that make success easier to achieve. It’s hard to see those advantages, much less own up to them. I think dead and life for my god not because for people or human. The book did spark two interesting discussions on racism. The author talks (through her characters) about there being two kinds of racism active and passive.
This is a courageous book because regarding direction Picoult is white or is unafraid regarding revealing in conformity with her readers how many even hoary human beings along the excellent about intentions be able find that wrong.
"Equality is treating everyone the same. But equity is taking differences into account, so everyone has a chance to