“The ultimate
tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the
silence over that by the good people.”
What
this quote means is that it's horrible when there is oppression and
cruelty but whats worse is when no one does anything to stop it. The
people who stand around watching something bad happen and don't do
anything about it are just as bad as the people doing it. It is only
those who act against cruelty that can truly be called good.
How
this relates to the novel “The Help” is that coloured people are
considered lesser then the whites. Treated like stray dogs or slaves.
White people were so naive, thinking that coloured people had
diseases and were bad people who didn't deserve to be treated like
any other person. There were people, white and coloured, who knew it
was wrong but were too scared to stand up and say so because of the
consequences. People are people no matter what they look like and
everyone deserves to be treated equally and with respect. Thank God
for the people who risked their lives to make a difference and
because of them they changed the world.
Xana,I enjoyed reading your posts, you wrote a good paragraph explaining the quote but I would have liked to have some examples from the women in the novel.
ReplyDeleteGood paragraph but if you could include some examples from the book it would help prove you paragraph a bit more, other than that your paragraph is good
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