The Invention Of Wings

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In the book The Invention Of Wings there were many themes written all over it. Though I found that the theme in this book is, everyone should be treated the same no matter the color of your skin. For example, in the book all of Mr. and Mrs. Grimke slaves were treated horrible. Unlike Sarah, at a very young age wasn’t blind on how badly the slaves were being treated. Sarah didn’t believe in any human being treated the way they were being treated. Action speaks louder then words and Sarah definitely proved that when she was given Handful, as her own personal handmaiden slave. Sahara treated Handful as if she was colorless almost like if color didn’t exist in her eyes. Even though Sarah had to be very cautious because she was still living under …show more content…

Handful was grateful for people like Sarah who didn’t care about the color of your skin. Which leads me to my very own experience, I grew up in a town filled of people with different skin color and many different ethnicities. At a very young age I was taught never treat anyone any different based on what I saw on the outside of a person or the color of someone skin. Just like Sarah I was blind to the color of people skin I never cared for it. Unlike my godmother, I never thought someone I loved or looked up to would be a racist. I never realized until this passed fall, when she brought up how lazy African Americans were at job. I never thought someone like her would pay so much attention to who’s lazy or not. She made my blood boil when she said “Wow thanks for waitressing my table, thank god I didn’t have a black person waitressing at my table because they are lazy, just look at them!” That made me so upset at the fact she thinks African Americans are lazy. Just because my co workers stood around waiting for the party to end so they could help us clean up doesn’t make them lazy. She should have gotten her facts straight before she even open her

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