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Question: Discuss about the Various Situational Crises in Discrimination. Answer: Introduction: I have read this novel recently for my younger sister. This novel is about a 14-year-old girl, named Lily without mother. She is abused by her father. Lily ran away with her nanny Rosaleen to South Carolina, after white racist attacked the later. On the journey, Lily learns the truth about her dead mother. I love this novel as all the characters in it are depicted to be resilient. The characters learn to cope up with various situational crises in life including discrimination management, physical pain, grief, abuse, and others. The author of the novel ensured that no two characters in the book used same approach to cope with the stress. I agree with the authors viewpoint about racism that was greatly prevailing in America in those times. I liked the positive aspect of the heavy issues dealt in the novel. As a child, I have experienced an incident or two of violence management and I always hated it. This novel made me empathise with the sufferings of black people and their experiences of abuse and violence. I feel blessed about todays teenagers of New Zealand as they do not have history of racism. However, racism towards Maori and witnesses cannot be denied but the severity of violence cannot be compared to America in 60s. I feel lucky to be born in New Zealand. I am inspired to take most outward approach as May in the novel to cope up with crisis. I do also sing song like her Oh Susannah and express out the bottled anger once and for all. May sounds much like me! I too do not believe in suppressing anger. Conclusion: I agree with the authors claim that one can be positive even in negative life event. The beautiful comparison with beehive clearly justifies this claim. In authors words Bees have a secret life and the complicated life going on inside a hive. I can relate these with my personal realisation in high school. I realised that people are not the same as they appear from outside. In the end of the text, Lily views the Boatwright sisters as strong women. The findings of Lily at the end align with my ideas. It is to be strong and positive! Lily finally accepts May, June and August as her own family. This coincides with my opinion that family is not limited to just mother, father and cousins. Thus, the novel has spread several positive messages for its readers perfectly blended with negative emotions like anger and grief.