Meaning Of Seeing It Straight

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In Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy Lizzie brings up the concept of “seeing it straight” in response to many of the towns ideologies. There are very few people in the book who really understand the meaning of seeing it straight. In the context of the book “Seeing it straight” is a very important concept to the people of Malaga Island. Turner slowly begins to “see it straight” as the book goes on. The people of Malaga Island see things much more straight than the people living in the town because they have actually lived through hardships that the world has thrown at them. At one point Lizzie’s grandfather points out the graves of a family to the “invading force” from Phippsburg and says “Their bones–our bones–they’re all part of this

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