Education Of Little Tree Essay

While reading the book Education of Little Tree we were told that Forest Carter was a part of the KKK also known as the Klu Klux Klan. This is a group of racist that mainly target African Americans. This was proven that he was a part of the KKK and lots of people do not want to read his book because he was apart of this group.

My personal thoughts on literature is that it does not really matter who writes a good book. If Adolph Hitler wrote Harry Potter I would still want to tread it because it is a well written series. But the fact that everything in this book is so true and it really shows that all the people in the world really do do these things I believe that if a racist can show how the world really is wether he believes it is write or not is irrelevant. Even if this was from a perspective of a racist it would not change my
mind of the book.

The book did not seem too have much racism in except when they would be walking down the road and saw the lady with the bloody mouth and the bus driver.
I did not see a problem with this because this is really how the world is. There is no point in sugar coating books and making the children of the world grow up thinking that nothing bad ever happens in the world. There have been many influential people in the world but Oprah Winfrey has been one of them for a long time while talking about overcoming racism she said, “Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.”

I did not personally like the book because I did not think that it kept my attention and it skipped around a lot so I felt like there were a lot of gaps in the storyline but when I found out that Forrest Carter was a part of the KKK did not affect my decision to read this book. Take Hitlers book Mein Kampf for example. Lots of people read his book and he is considered one of the worst people ever to walk the earth. I think that some people want to see the work from a different persecutive even if they think that what they have done or what their beliefs are
wrong.

I do not think that the fact that the Author is a racist influences the meaning of the book at all because there was no real part of the book that stood out to me that said that this person is a racist. I did not think any of it until my teacher told my class that Forrest Carter was a racist. I still did not like the book and not even because he was a racist I did not like the book because it was just not appealing to me. There was nothing that stood out to me.

I disagree with people that refuse to read this book because he was a racist. I understand that they do not want to fund a racist but the book really does show what life was like back then and how the Native Americans that had already been displaced and were trying to be quiet and live simple lives were treated. When Little Trees parents died the relatives did not want him to go to his grandparents house because they were so simple and people that he would not be raised like a regular person. This shows that even people in the same family had different views about the Native Americans. There was a quote by rosa parks when she was speaking about the real world. Mrs. Parks said, “ Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.” I think she was really trying to say that racism has not gone away and has been here in the world for a very long time.

My last and final point is that until high school you are never really introduced to the real world and this book really is what happened back then there is no discussion about that the question is is it right to read a book that a racist has written and if you have not read it then you might think that it reflects his views but it is really the exact opposite I could have gone my entire life not knowing that there was anything wrong with him. but since he is in the KKK people think that that will influence what he puts in his book. If all they do is research he author and don’t actually know what the book is about or what happens in the book then I think that people do not have the right to judge him. personally I do not agree with his views but I think that this book is very historically accurate in the aspect of hope these people were treated back then and it still goes on today. Overall looking at what other people have to say about this subject I do think I would read this book and find out how it was written and what his views are . I think people would be really surprised how unbiased this book is. The fact that I did not like the book had nothing to do with the KKK or racism but it just did not catch my attention.