Noughts and Crosses

"Noughts and Crosses" by Malorie Blackman is one of the greatest books I have ever read. It's kind of nice to see the roles reversed and white people being lowley instead of on top. Now I'm not saying anyone should live like this, ever but it gives us a taste of how black people were treated. Sephy and Callum's relationship is one that tries the authorites, it's awkward and always on the edge, it's been festering for years and even the three or four years they spend apart cannot dwindle their love for each other. Callum's sister, Lynette, is one of my favourite characters in it, she is confused and doesn't know who or what she is, and in the end she can't cope with a life surrounded by such hatred, even after she remembers the truth about herself. The only one who knows the truth about her death is Callum, and the last piece of advice she ever gives him is to not give up on Sephy. Sephy, however, is struggling with her parent's failing marriage, her mother's drinking problem and the distance of her father. She sees how her mother loses herself by drinking and is disgusted by it but needs to escape herself, so she tries it, and carries on, until going away to school later on the same year. Callum, along with his brother Jude, becomes a member of the Liberation Milita (The L.M for short) and their plot that should be the end of it all is the beginning for Callum and Sephy.



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The Secret Life Of Bees

The story begins with, "the bees came the summer of 1964, the summer I turned fourteen and my life went spinning off to a whole new orbit." Sue Monk Kidd captures the restlessness of a teenage girl searching for the love of a mother, she longs for love. She has a need to know the truth but fears it at the same time. And most of all, Lily unknowingly wants to earn her own forgiveness. Lily's unloving father, T. Ray ("I call him T. Ray because Daddy never suited him") is harsh and evil, and because you are reading the story through Lily's point of view, you think he has always been this way until the end of the story where Lily explains that she never thought about what her mother leaving did to him. She had always thought she was the only one who hurt over it, but realizes that T. Ray loved her mother, and she took his love away. One day Lily and Rosaleen, Lily's black, loving housemaid, go into town so Rosaleen can register to vote, but they stumble across three racist men who, when Rosaleen defends herself, take violent action against her, resulting in Rosaleen and Lily getting arrested. T. Ray bails Lily out and takes her home, where he tells her something she cannot live with (I won't ruin it, so I won't tell you!) she brakes Rosaleen out of hospital and they run away to Tibourn, where they find the Boatwright sisters, May, June and August. Now, at fourteen Lily is very bright and does not trust herself or these women with the truth so she tells them a pack of lies to gain their trust. It is August who in the one who teaches Lily how to forgive herself and her mother.


I finnished reading "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd this morning and it lived up to my every expectation. I watched the film a week or so ago and found out it was based on a book, I immediantly wanted to read it and luckily found it at a charity shop. Enjoying the film, I expected to enjoy the book just as much and I did.




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