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Lily Owens In The Boatwrights By Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd portrays Lily Owens as a sweet, and neglected teen, but I promise you she is not as sweet as the honey the boatwrights sell. Lily, is quite different from the boatwrights, she’s white. She is the outcast, she’s the only white person around Black folk. The book is set in the 1960’s, so, there was the beautiful thing called “white privilege”. It’s an amazing thing it doesn’t exist anymore. However, it did exist at one point. Lily is only with the Boatwrights to spread her white privilege, and learn about her mother. When Lily first meets the Boatwrights, Lily lies, and delays, explaining that she was looking for a place to stay, as she was “on her way to her Aunt's house”. She could have explained right then and there her true
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