There are many fiction novels that help people understand major issues such as: racism, poverty, teen angst, bullying, and sexual orientation. A book that helped me understand about bullying is Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks. This book also helped me understand poverty. Safe Haven is about a girl (Katie) who has tried for many years to escape and get away from her husband (Kevin) who had bullied and abused her since they got married. Finally Katie escaped and moved to a small town in North Carolina. She did not have very much money so she bought an old junk house since it was all she could afford. She tried to fix it up the best she could. She got a job at a diner but she couldn’t afford a car so she had to walk a long ways to work rain or
