Blog Six

While reading Secret Life of Bees, I found myself really appreciating the gravity of the situations the novel was dealing with, even though the main character was so young. Although it is a fiction novel, it dealt with things in a very "real life" way. I think this is true with most, if not all, African-American Literature that we have covered in class.

While some literature glosses over important issues without really getting into them and showing how heavy they are, and some other literature dances around certain issues all together, African-American Literature takes a refreshing, honest real life stance. The poems we have read in class are realistic and stay true to the time periods that they were penned in.

I so appreciate that this novel took a realistic approach to the way racism was in that time period. Just because Lilly was young did not mean she got to escape the havoc racism caused, and this novel fully acknowledges that, staying true to African-American Literature.