S.P.E.C.S.
Significance
Perspective
Evidence
Connection
Supposition
Significance
This book is about a white girl named lily. Her mother died when she was very young. Her father, T. Ray, told lily that she killed her own mother. T. Ray never treated Lily well in the first place, so Lily decided to run away with her housekeeper, Rosaleen. (Rosaleen is a colored woman.) This is an important book because it sort of teaches a lesson abou racism. It also shows that people should not shape their lives around what they hear from other people. A reader could take a thing or two from reading this book. Those that I just mentioned, and that they should also "never judge a book by it's cover."
Perspactive
This book, The Secret Life Of Bees, was written by Sue Monk Kidd. It was written pretty recent times. This book was told first person. The author is a female, but I don't think that her gender would have effected her work. I mean I guess of the author was a male, then maybe the main character would have been a boy or something. If the person reading this book was a black person, then they may feel differently about the way the book is written because there is alot about white people being against black people. So if a black person were reading this, they may feel offended by the book.
Evidence
It seems like the author's argument is more on the side of not being so against black people. There are facts in this book that support her argument. For example; on their journey, there are people who are completely against Rosaleen, but Lily stays by her side the whole time. And then there is the fact that the people that Lily and Rosaleen stayed with were colored people as well, but they accepted Lily whether she was black or white.
Connection
This seemed to be a very common event around the time of colored people's slavery. This event still effects us today because there are still many poeple who are racist to not only black people, but all kinds of ethnicities. I fortunatly don't know anybody who can relate to this situation, and neither can I. In my opinion, just because you have different colored skin than everybody else, doesn't mean you shouldn't have the same rights as white people. I think people should be treated with equality and respect, no matter what you ethnicity is.
Supposition
The world, in this case, would be a completely different place if Martin Luther King Junior never came around. The world might still be a world against colored people White people might still be in power over other colored people in America. If this took place in the 1500's, then the circumstances would be alot different. Instead of the police officers who took Rosaleen to jail, there would be nights in shining armor taking her away on their valiant steeds, and she would probably be beheaded.
