Bitter Sparknotes

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In the book Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi, the main character, Bitter, lives in the dorm of an art school called Eucalyptus, which is in the town of Lucille. There is one problem in Lucille, which is how many innocent civilians died at the hands of a man named Dian Theron. In order to stop this, Bitter summons a monster named Vengeance to take care of him, but things get out of hand. The biggest message of this book is that violence is not the answer to our problems. Bitter uses different types of activism to show how the people of Eucalyptus and Assata fight against violence to make the world a better place. At the beginning of the book, Bitter learns about the values of the revolution and why it is important. Bitter and Eddie have a discussion …show more content…

Too many people have died in their community, so they need to take action in order to make Lucille safer. Bitter’s way of fighting in the revolution is not being on the streets fighting. Instead, she creates Vengeance, a monster who she draws, with the purpose to stop the violence and fight for her. Bitter summons Vengeance after she sees him kill Dian Theron because it upsets her. Bitter thinks that “She wanted to create something monstrous to get rid of Lucille’s monsters, and now Bitter didn’t know who was the monster or where the lines that described it started or stopped” (Emezi, p.214). The author repeats the word “monster” a lot to give the reader the idea that both Vengeance and Theron are monsters, in the sense that they both cause a lot of harm to the community of Lucille. Bitter names her monster ‘Vengeance” which means getting back at the people who started and continue the violence. Bitter does not really think her creation completely through because she thinks that the idea of revenge is different than the monster’s. Bitter tries to fight against Dian Theron’s violence by summoning Vengeance, but his plan is different than

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