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5.0 out of 5 stars good book, May 16, 2000
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This review is from: Words By Heart (Mass Market Paperback)
This year, my eighth grade English class read To Kill a Mockingbird, a novel by Harper Lee. While we read this book, we were assigned to read another book about black struggle as well. I read the novel, Words by Heart, by Ouida Sebestyen. It was a compelling, well-written book about a young, black girl who discovers her place in a white neighborhood in a time of racism. Ouida Sebestyen is a black author whose past was very much like the life of the character of the little black girl. The author of To Kill a Mockingbird on the other hand, is a white woman whose past relates very closely to the character of little white girl. In Words by Heart, the white people were mostly undeveloped and without much character. In To Kill a Mockingbird, the blacks are the undeveloped characters. Both of these books contain very similar ideas about life as a child when racism was very strong. These two books both have similar plots but are seen from two opposite different points of view. When I read Words by Heart, I realized how difficult it would be to go through such a hard time in life without knowing why things were the way they were or what was happening in the world. I was moved by the challenging events the black family had to go through, because I know that racism is one of the hardest things to face in life. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys reading about black struggle in the history of America.http://www.amazon.com/Words-Heart-Ouida-Sebestyen/dp/044041346X
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