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Little Bee Trifles

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Little Bee is a story about a Nigerian girl turned refugee who has seen the ugliest things that life has to offer- from murder to suicide, to infidelity. The trials and tribulations that "Udo" has endured, reminded me that she is not just a character in a novel, she is a representative of millions of people alive in this world who have to bear the very same thing. The aspect that interests me to Little bee's story is that even through everything that she has encountered, she remains stronger than I could ever be. Refugees and immigrants who are constantly denied by the system grow thick skin by default. That inspired me to discover what exactly Little Bee (and millions more) had to go through. Especially in America where we have become so
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