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The Role Of Mrs. Bigio In The Wednesday War

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“Racism is a refuge for the ignorant, it seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head on and stamped out.”-Pierre Berton. In the novel the wednesday wars by Gary D. Schmidt there are two characters named Mrs.Bigio and Mai Thi. Mrs. Bigio dislikes Mai Thi because Mai Thi is from Vietnam and a man from Vietnam killed her husband. Mrs.Bigio is a racist women and should not treat a little girl like that Mai Thi doesn 't deserve this! What did she do to wrong Mrs. Bigio? Sometimes people are rude and selfish because they blame you for what someone else did. Before you start blaming people for what happened stop and think was it really there fault.
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