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Discrimination In Faulkner's The Secret Life Of Bees

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The Secret Life of Bees is a novel about a girl, named Lily, who escapes from her home to end up in a house filled with black people. During her stay there you read the challenges Lily faces and how she comes to understand colored people. This book is a great description of the discrimination that colored people endured, for the novel took period during the passing of the Civil War Act, includes samples of Jim Crow, explains a young girl's perspective on colored people, and shows how far colored people have gotten to gaining more freedom. To begin, the Secret Life of Bees took place in 1964, right when the Civil Rights Act was passed. This act abolished discrimination founded on race, religion, sex, etc. In the novel, it showed how it impacted
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