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'An Analysis Of Orange Is The New Black'
Orange Is The New Black is a television show centered around Piper, a newly engaged woman who is just setting up a business, when she is jailed on charges of drug smuggling 10 years earlier with her girlfriend, Alex. The show follows her as she gets used to being separated from her fiance, Larry, and has to adjust to prison life. There are many important themes explored in the show Orange Is The New Black, such as identity, control, religion, and sexual harassment and drug abuse. This is why I would recommend it to a year twelve book club.

I think that identity is an important theme shown in the show Orange Is The New Black, and that a year twelve book club would find it very valuable to learn about different identities, and the way they are expressed. For example, in the prison, there is a transgender woman named Sophia. She went to prison for stealing …show more content…
An example of this is an inmate, Tiffany Doggett, she was arrested for shooting a nurse in an abortion clinic after she ‘disrespected’ Doggett for having a fifth abortion. “They should give you a loyalty card, 5 stamps and the next ones free.” When Doggett arrives to her trial after the shooting there are hordes of religious protesters there to support her, because they believe she is doing the lord's work by killing an abortion worker. Stunned with the support from the abortion protestors, she turns to religion. I found this showed me more about the world in the sense that it conveyed the different ways and reasons why people turn to religion. Throughout the rest of the series, Doggett preaches the word of the lord, and at several points believes that god is helping her to heal people because of her faith. This shows the lengths that people go when they believe in something, and how religion can blind people to the truth, because they can be too caught up on what they have faith
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