Are racism and discrimination are discussed as sub (or hidden) topics under the main plot?
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Re: Are racism and discrimination are discussed as sub (or hidden) topics under the main plot?
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Sushan wrote: ↑01 Sep 2021, 00:28(Location 78 - Kindle version)I notice the only three black kids chatting it up in the back. Even they manage to glare at me like my chocolate skin is something abnormal.
(Location 367 - Kindle version)I wonder if having a metal boot, belonging to a poor family of farmers, or losing a friend has made their lives as somber as mine. Maybe we’re all just members of The Breakfast Club, waiting to be placed in detention together.
Brady Moore has used a black teen as his protagonist and have shown difficulties that he faces with just because he is black.
And also he has shown how people are cornered and treated differently because of their family status, disabilities, etc.
It is true that these differences and remarks make it easy to the reader to identify the characters separately and keep them in mind. But I feel as the author has wanted to show the bad aspects of racism and treating people without equality. And he shows how an insignificant and an ignored fellow can be the most clever or the useful one.
Do you see these hidden discussions as well? What do you think the author's intention has been, is it just to develop different characters or to discuss the above-mentioned topics subtly under the main plot?
Yes, I did see sub-discussions of racism and discrimination, but I can't that it was one of the core points of the book. This is because I've such strategies used in a plethora of other stories. Discrimination based on skin color, financial status, social cadre, etc. are established realities of our present society, and authors naturally tend to draw inspiration from real life when they write. That's all this is. My point is if we lived in a world devoid of racism and discrimination, none of that would have shown up in Moore's work.Sushan wrote: ↑01 Sep 2021, 00:28(Location 78 - Kindle version)I notice the only three black kids chatting it up in the back. Even they manage to glare at me like my chocolate skin is something abnormal.
(Location 367 - Kindle version)I wonder if having a metal boot, belonging to a poor family of farmers, or losing a friend has made their lives as somber as mine. Maybe we’re all just members of The Breakfast Club, waiting to be placed in detention together.
Brady Moore has used a black teen as his protagonist and have shown difficulties that he faces with just because he is black.
And also he has shown how people are cornered and treated differently because of their family status, disabilities, etc.
It is true that these differences and remarks make it easy to the reader to identify the characters separately and keep them in mind. But I feel as the author has wanted to show the bad aspects of racism and treating people without equality. And he shows how an insignificant and an ignored fellow can be the most clever or the useful one.
Do you see these hidden discussions as well? What do you think the author's intention has been, is it just to develop different characters or to discuss the above-mentioned topics subtly under the main plot?
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